Jeffrey K. Stine
Chair and Curator

National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution
AHB 5032 MRC 627
Washington, DC 20013-7012

stine@si.edu

Education

B.A. (1975), M.A. (1978), Ph.D. (1984) University of California, Santa Barbara

Research Interests

The history of environmental politics and policy in the U.S.; the intersections of technology and the environment; history of water resources development; the development of environmental organizations during the 20th century.

Current Research Projects

The history of natural resources and environmental policy within the Reagan Presidency; a history of federal water resources development since the 1960s.

Current Publications

America's Forested Wetlands: From Wasteland to Valued Resource (Durham, NC: Forest History Society, 2008)

"Natural Resources and Environmental Policy," in W. Elliot Brownlee and Hugh Davis Graham, The Reagan Presidency: Pragmatic Conservatism and Its Legacy (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003), 233-56;

"Technical Advice for Congress: Past Trends and Present Obstacles," in M. Granger Morgan and Jon M. Peha, Science and Technology Advice for Congress (Washington: RFF Press, 2003), 23-52

Going Underground: Tunneling Past, Present, and Future (Kansas City, MO: American Public Works Association, 1998)

Twenty Years of Science in the Public Interest: A History of the Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowship Program (Washington: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1994)

Mixing the Waters: Environment, Politics, and the Building of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, 1993)

"Placing Environmental History on Display," Environmental History, 7 (October 2002), 566-88

"At the Intersection of Histories: Technology and the Environment," Technology and Culture, 39 (October 1998), 601-640

"Environmental Policy during the Carter Presidency" in Gary M Fink and Hugh Davis Graham, The Carter Presidency: Policy Choices in the Post-New Deal Era (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998), 179-201.