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Craig E. Colten


PERSONAL INFORMATION

Carl O. Sauer Professor
Department of Geography and Anthropology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225-578-6180 ~ Fax: 225-578-4420
E-mail: ccolten@lsu.edu

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1984.


RESEARCH INTERESTS
Environmental Historical Geography
Urban Environments
Louisiana and the South



SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Colten, Craig E. 2005. An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature. Baton Rouge: LSU Press.

Yodis, Elaine, Craig Colten, and Douglas Johnson. 2003. Geography of Louisiana. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Colten, Craig E. 2002. "Basin Street Blues: Drainage and Environmental Equity in New Orleans, 1890-1930." Journal of Historical Geography 28: 237-57.

Colten, Craig E. 2002. "Reintroducing Nature to the City: Wetlands in New Orleans."  Environmental History 7: 226-46.

Colten, Craig E., editor and contributor. 2000.  Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs: Centuries of Change. Pittsburgh: University
of Pittsburgh Press.

Colten, Craig E. 1998. "Engineers' Topography: The Contours of Environmental Knowledge." Geographical Review 88:199-218.

Colten, Craig E. 1997. "Environmental Justice on the American Bottom."
In Common Fields, Andrew Hurley, ed., pp.163-75. St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society.

Colten, Craig E. and Peter N. Skinner. 1996. The Road to Love Canal: Managing Industrial Wastes Before EPA. Austin: University of Texas Press.


HONORS AND ACTIVITIES
2002-present. Editorial Board, Environmental History.
1999-present. Co-editor, Historical Geography.
1996-2002. Editorial Board, Geographical Review.

COURSES TAUGHT
Geography of Louisiana
Historical Geography of the Environment
North America
Human Geography: Europe and the Americas
Seminar on Urban Environments
Seminar on Historical Environments of New Orleans

 

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Fax: (225) 578-4420

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