Dr. Paul Sutter
(Ph.D. Kansas 1997; Associate Professor of History) Environmental History; Modern U.S. History; History of Public Health; American West. Paul has published numerous scholarly and popular articles on the American wilderness movement, environmental historiography, southern environmental history, and other topics, and the University of Washington Press published his first book, Driven Wild: How the Fight Against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement, in 2002. Paul is currently at work on another book-length project, tentatively titled “Pulling the Teeth of the Tropics: Environment, Disease, Race, and the U.S. Sanitary Program in Panama, 1904-1914.” He is also the editor of the book series, “Environmental History and the American South,” which is published by the University of Georgia Press. Click here to see the vita of Professor Sutter.

Dr. Shane Hamilton
(Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2005; Assistant Professor of History) Shane Hamilton teaches courses in twentieth-century American history, agriculture and rural life, and the history of technology. His first book, Trucking Country: Agribusiness and the Rural Assault on Economic Liberalism in Twentieth-Century America, will be published in 2008 by Princeton University Press. He has published articles and reviews in Agricultural History, Business History Review, Reviews in American History, and Technology and Culture. His second book project, tentatively titled "Supermarket USA: Food, Technology, and Power in the American Century," has been funded by a National Science Foundation Scholar's Award.

For more information, contact:
Dr. Paul Sutter or Dr. Shane Hamilton
sutter at uga dot edu
shamilto at uga dot edu