Carl A. Zimring
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Carl Zimring is an environmental historian interested in how attitudes concerning waste shape society, culture, institutions, and inequalities. He is the author of several books that focus on aspects of the histories of technology and the environment, with particular attention to discards and the systems that create, classify, and manage discards.r r Zimring joined Pratt in 2012 to create the Institute’s sustainability studies minor, which he coordinated until 2022. Before arriving in Brooklyn, he helped create the first sustainability studies BA program in Illinois at Roosevelt University. He previously taught at Oberlin College, Michigan Technological University, the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, and Carnegie Mellon University. Research support includes funding from the Smithsonian Institution, the Hagley Museum and Library, Columbia University Seminars, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the American Society for Environmental History’s Samuel P. Hays Fellowship.
Aluminum Upcycled: Sustainable Design in Historical Perspective (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) | Cash For Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America | Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States | Coastal Metropolis: Environmental Histories of Modern New York City (History of the Urban Environment) | Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste | Looking for Lemont: Place & People in an Illinois Canal Town | Technology and the Environment in History (Technology in Motion) | The Industrial Revolution in the Upper Illinois Valley