Neil Maher

Neil Maher received his Ph.D. in history from New York University in 2001 and is currently a professor of history in the Federated History Department, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on U.S. environmental and political history, urban environmental history, and environmental justice. He is the author, most recently, of Apollo in the Age of Aquarius (Harvard University Press, 2017), which received the Eugene M. Emme best book award from the American Astronautical Society and was selected as a Bloomberg View Must-Read, a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, and a Smithsonian Best Book on the Apollo program. His first book, Nature’s New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement (Oxford University Press, 2007), won the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award for the best monograph in conservation history.

Maher has been interviewed for more than a dozen radio programs, served as historical consultant on several documentaries for the History Channel, PBS, and the American Experience series, and has written for popular audiences in the New York Times and The Washington Post. He is currently co-writing a textbook on the use of visual images in historical research, writing, and teaching.

Ph.D.; New York University; Us History; 2001

M.A.; New York University; US History; 1997

B.A.; Dartmouth College; History; 1986

http://www.neilmaher.com

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HIST 701B - MASTER'S THESIS

HIST 701C - MASTER'S THESIS

HIST 702 - MASTER'S ESSAY

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Neil Maher currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on 20th Century U.S. environmental and political history, urban history, and the history of environmental inequality and justice.

He is also currently serving as primary advisor for nearly a half dozen M.A.theses, and as primary advisor or committee member for several Ph.D. dissertations.

20th Century US environmental and political history, urban history, and the history of environmental justice.

Community Conversation on the Passaic River (Paterson, N.J. location)
Even organized through Rutgers Newark, Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the American Experience, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2023

Community Conversation on the Passaic River (Ringwood, N.J. location)
Even organized through Rutgers Newark, Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the American Experience, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2023

Community Conversation on the Passaic River (Newark, NJ Location)
Even organized through Rutgers Newark, Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the American Experience, December 2022

NASA and the Environment Symposium
conference sponsored by Georgetown, NJIT, and NASA, September 2022

Environmental Justice History in America
January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2022

"Forging an Environmentally Just Civilian Conservation Corps"
The Living New Deal , November 2021

Review of NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement
ISIS (Journal of the History of Science Society), August 2021

“The Apollo Program Had a Surprising Close Relationship With 1960s Counterculture,”
History Unplugged, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2021

“A Conversation about the Civilian Conservation Corps,”
Resources for the Future, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2021

“The Once and Future Civilian Conservation Corps,”
Feet to the Fire, March 2021

“Rich People Are Going to Colonize Mars Without You,”
VICE TV New Tonight, December 2020

“Escape From the Nuclear Family: COVID-19 Should Provoke a Rethink of How We Live,”
The Intercept_, August 2020

"Biden Needs to Go Big to Rebuild America"
Common Dreams , December 2020

"Biden Needs to Go Big to Rebuild America"
Yes! (magazine of solutions journalism", December 2020

"The Keys to Ensuring That a Green New Deal Succeeds"
Washington Post, August 2019

"Not Everyone Wanted a Man on the Moon"
The New York Times, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2019

How Many Times Does a River Have to Burn Before it Matters?
The New York Times, June 2019

Maher, Neil M. (2018). "Grounding the Space Race". Modern American History, 1(1), 141-146.

Maher, Neil M. (2017). Apollo in the Age of Aquarius. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press

Maher, Neil M. (2008). Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement. New York: Oxford University Press