Adam Rome
Unidel Helen Gouldner Chair for the Environment
Professor of History and English
Co-director, Environmental Humanities Program
223 Munroe Hall
(302) 831-4544
arome@udel.edu
Adam Rome is an environmental historian of the United States. One of his interests is the way the built environment and the material objects of daily life shape our relationship with nature. His first book, The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism, won the Organization of American Historians’ Frederick Jackson Turner award. His second book, The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation, came out in 2013. He also is coeditor of Green Capitalism? Exploring the Crossroads of Business and Environmental History (forthcoming). From 2002 through 2005, he edited Environmental History, the leading journal in the field. He teaches courses on environmental history and environmental non-fiction since Silent Spring. He earned his B.A. from Yale and his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas.
