Faculty

David Stradling
Associate Professor
Fields: United States, Urban, Environmental

Phone: 513-556-2057
Email: david.stradling@uc.edu
Office: 335 McMicken Hall

David Stradling has taught urban and environmental history at the University of Cincinnati since 2000. Stradling received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1996, after having earned a BA and MAT from Colgate University. He taught for two years at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey, before moving to Cincinnati. His research has focused on urban environmental history, including the struggle to improve air quality and the many ways in which urbanization has influenced rural America. He has just begun a study of the Cuyahoga River and industrial Cleveland. He commutes to campus on foot through Burnet Woods.  

Selected Courses:   
History of Cincinnati
Twentieth-Century American Cities
Environmental History of North America to 1900
Twentieth-Century American Environmental History
Issues in Historic Preservation

Selected Publications: 
Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills (University of Washington Press, forthcoming).

Cincinnati: From River City to Highway Metropolis (Arcadia Publishing, 2003).

Smokestacks and Progressives: Environmentalists, Engineers and Air Quality in America, 1881-1951 ( Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999).