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Center for Public History Awards Fellowship to Lifset
Posted: September 5, 2006
The University of Houston Center for Public History has awarded its post-doctorate fellowship for the 2006-2007 academic year to Robert Lifset. The Center for Public History, through the work of UH professors Martin Melosi, Joseph Pratt, Kathleen Brosnan, and Kairn Klieman, has emerged as a national and international center for the study of historical issues related to energy and the environment. The Center also conducts research of scholarly value and community use on the Houston metropolitan region and trains graduate students in the fields of public history, environmental history, energy history, and urban history.
Robert Lifset, a specialist in twentieth-century U.S. political, environmental, and energy history, will prove an exciting addition to the Center’s activities. He received his B.A. from the University of Chicago and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. Dr. Lifset’s dissertation, Storm King Mountain and the Emergence of Modern American Environmentalism, 1962-1980, examines an iconic and influential struggle in the early history of the modern environmental movement. An article from this work, "The Environmental is Political: The Story of the Ill-Fated Hudson River Expressway, 1965-1970" was recently published in the Hudson River Valley Review. His current research focuses on the energy crisis of the 1970s. Dr. Lifset also serves as the founding web and list editor for H-Energy, an online forum for scholars interested in the history of energy broadly defined.
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