Sarah S. Elkind
Sarah
S. Elkind (University of Michigan, 1994) teaches courses
addressing a wide variety of environmental history topics.
Recent publications include Bay Cities and Water Politics:
The Battle for Resources in Boston and Oakland (Kansas, 1998)
which won the Abel Wolman prize for best book in public works
history in 1998; Public Works and Public Health: Reflections
on Urban Politics and Environment, 1880-1925 (Public Works
Historical Society, 1999); "Public Oil, Private Oil:
The Tidelands Oil Controversy, World War II and the Control
of the Environment," in The Way We Really Were: The
Golden State in the Second Great War, ed. by Roger Lotchin;
and "Building a Better Jungle: Growth, Reform and Public
Works in American Cities, 1880-1930," Journal of Urban
History, (1997). Her current work, The Public Good: Environment,
Politics and Culture in America, examines the definition
of the "public good" that drove natural resource
policy in the first half of the twentieth century.