Health and the Urban Environment
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Respectful Behavior Policy
Participants at Consortium activities will treat each other with respect and consideration to create a collegial, inclusive, and professional environment that is free from any form of discrimination, harassment, or retaliation.
Participants will avoid any inappropriate actions or statements based on individual characteristics such as age, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, nationality, political affiliation, ability status, educational background, or any other characteristic protected by law. Disruptive or harassing behavior of any kind will not be tolerated. Harassment includes but is not limited to inappropriate or intimidating behavior and language, unwelcome jokes or comments, unwanted touching or attention, offensive images, photography without permission, and stalking.
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Upcoming Meetings
There are no currently scheduled upcoming events.
Past Meetings
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September 7, 2023
Introductions and Inspirations
For our first meeting, we will not be discussing a common text. Instead, this session will allow us to meet one another, establish goals for our working group, and share our favorite titles on health and the urban environment.
Group Conveners
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Jason Chernesky
Jason M. Chernesky is the CLIR Opioid Industry Research Postdoctoral Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University’s Institute of the History of Medicine. His current and first book project is titled “The Littlest Victims”: Pediatric AIDS and the Urban Ecology of Children’s Health, 1950 – 2015. His research works at the intersections of science, technology, medicine, public health, and urban environments in the U.S. during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Amy Hay
Amy Hay explores issues of authority, protest, health & the environment in her research. Her book, The Defoliation of America, examines the protests made by various groups -- scientists, environmental & health activists, veterans -- challenging the use of Agent Orange chemicals, both in South Vietnam and the United States. Her current research focuses on two groups of migrants, local workers who provide seasonal agricultural labor, and "winter" Texans, people from all over the US and Canada who come to the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas for its healthy climate.
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Melanie Kiechle
Melanie A. Kiechle is an associate professor of history at Virginia Tech and the author of Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America (University of Washington, 2017). She researches and teaches at the intersections of science, medicine, lay experience, and the environment in the nineteenth century.
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