- Nicholas Ostrum, Extracting Concessions and Losing Ground: The Twin Failures of Souédie and the Euphrates Dam, 1963-1969
- Aditi Basu, Hinduism and Sun Deification in India: Relevance as Solar Energy in the 21st Century
The Energy History Working Group will provide a showcase for works-in-progress within the field of energy history, globally conceived. There is strong interest for a dedicated group to discuss proposals, workshop papers, and share ideas within the field. Along with papers published in the Journal of Energy History, energy history papers and panels feature prominently at conferences such as American Society for Environmental History, Society for the History of Technology, Labor and Working Class History Association, and others. However, despite over two decades of growing interest, there are few dedicated venues for energy historians to gather and share work. This Working Group will help to fill this gap.
Consortium 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.
Participants may send reports or concerns about violations of this policy to conduct@chstm.org.
Upcoming Meetings
Friday, April 11, 2025, 12:30 - 2:00 pm EDT
Friday, April 11, 2025, 12:30 - 2:00 pm EDT
- Nicholas Ostrum, Extracting Concessions and Losing Ground: The Twin Failures of Souédie and the Euphrates Dam, 1963-1969
- Aditi Basu, Hinduism and Sun Deification in India: Relevance as Solar Energy in the 21st Century
Friday, April 11, 2025, 12:30 - 2:00 pm EDT
- Nicholas Ostrum, Extracting Concessions and Losing Ground: The Twin Failures of Souédie and the Euphrates Dam, 1963-1969
- Aditi Basu, Hinduism and Sun Deification in India: Relevance as Solar Energy in the 21st Century
Friday, April 11, 2025, 12:30 - 2:00 pm EDT
- Nicholas Ostrum, Extracting Concessions and Losing Ground: The Twin Failures of Souédie and the Euphrates Dam, 1963-1969
- Aditi Basu, Hinduism and Sun Deification in India: Relevance as Solar Energy in the 21st Century
Friday, May 9, 2025, 12:30 - 2:00 pm EDT
- Syllabus share! What should be on a syllabus for energy history and energy-related topics?
Friday, May 9, 2025, 12:30 - 2:00 pm EDT
- Syllabus share! What should be on a syllabus for energy history and energy-related topics?
Friday, May 9, 2025, 12:30 - 2:00 pm EDT
- Syllabus share! What should be on a syllabus for energy history and energy-related topics?
Friday, May 9, 2025, 12:30 - 2:00 pm EDT
- Syllabus share! What should be on a syllabus for energy history and energy-related topics?
Group Conveners
Brian Leech
Brian Leech is Associate Professor of History at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. He is an environmental historian of North American regions with a focus on the history of natural resources, including mining, energy, and food. Leech is the author of The City That Ate Itself: Butte, Montana and Its Expanding Berkeley Pit (2018) and he is at work on two projects: a history of the portrayal of mining in popular culture and a history of speed limits in the American West.
Robert Lifset
Robert Lifset is the Donald Keith Jones Associate Professor of Honors in the Department of History at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Power on the Hudson, Storm King Mountain and The Emergence of Modern American Environmentalism (2014). Lifset is the editor of two books: American Energy Policy in the 1970s (University of Oklahoma Press, 2014) and (with Sarah Stanford-Mcintyre and Raechel Lutz) American Energy Cinema (West Virginia University Press, 2023) . Lifset is currently researching a history of the energy crisis of the 1970s.
Sarah Stanford-McIntyre
Sarah Stanford-McIntyre is an Assistant Professor in the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her book project, Natural Risk: An Environmental History of West Texas Oil and the Rise of Sunbelt Texas (Forthcoming, Columbia University Press), examines how oil workers responded to industry hazards and shaped Texas industrialization. She is co-editor of American Energy Cinema (West Virginia University Press), which historicizes American film depictions of the energy industries. She has also published on grain elevator disasters, oil industry labor battles, computing and geophysics, Texas hydroelectric development, and wind energy. She is beginning a second monograph on renewable energy development in the US Southwest.
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