Participant Info
- First Name
- Catherine
- Last Name
- McNeur
- Country
- United States
- State
- catherine.mcneur@pdx.edu
- Affiliation
- Portland State University
- Website URL
- www.catherinemcneur.com
- Keywords
- environmental, urban, United States, nineteenth century
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Catherine McNeur (Ph.D., Yale University, 2012) is a Professor of History at Portland State University. She is the award-winning author of Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City (Harvard University Press, 2014) and Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science (Basic Books, 2023).
- Recent Publications
Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science (Basic Books, 2023)
Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City (Harvard University Press, 2014)
“The Histories of New York City’s Parks,” Journal of Planning History 16.2 (Spring 2017): 95-97.
“Parks, People, and Property Values: The Changing Role of Green Spaces in Antebellum Manhattan,” Journal of Planning History 16.2 (Spring 2017): 98-111.
“Rooted in History: Portland’s Heritage Trees,” in University-Community Partnerships, ed. B.D. Wortham-Galvin, Jennifer Allen, and Jacob D. B. Sherman (Greenleaf Press, 2016): 89-98.
“The ‘Swinish Multitude’: Controversies over Hogs in Antebellum New York City,” Journal of Urban History37.5 (September 2011): 639-660.
- Media Coverage
- Atlas Obscura, Quartz, CityLab, New York Times, C-Span3, OPB, WNET, Times Literary Supplement, New York Post, Monacle Daily
- Social Media
- Catherine_McNeur_Writer
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Environment, Gender, Public History, Science, Women
