Curator of Engineering and Environmental History
National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution
PO Box 37012
MRC 629
Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
stine@si.edu
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; the evolution of attitudes and actions toward forested wetlands in North America; a history of federal water resources development since the 1960s.
Recent Publications
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.