NJIT - PublicInfo: Neil M. Maher, PhD

NJIT - PublicInfo: Neil M. Maher, PhD NJIT

Neil M. Maher, PhD

Neil M. Maher, PhD	Neil M. Maher, PhD, is an associate professor in the federated department of history at New Jersey Institute of Technology. His research interests include: 20th-century environmental, social, and political history; the history of technology and medicine; and landscape studies. Maher was a recent Verville Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, where he conducted research for his second book project about an environmental history of NASA and the space race. New Jersey’s Environments, a new book of essays examining New Jersey’s environmental problems and solutions, was released in March 2006. The book documents the innovations and compromises created on behalf of and in response to growing environmental concerns in New Jersey, which set examples on the local level for nationwide and worldwide efforts that share the goal of protecting the natural world. In 2006, Oxford University Press is scheduled to release Maher's first book, Nature’s New Deal: Franklin Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement. He received his bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and his PhD in history from New York University.

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