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Areas of Research: 20th Century US, Urban Environment, and Social History
"Wretched Refuse: Garbage and the Making of the New York City" is a social and economic history of waste management in New York City from the late 19th century through the 1990s. Wretched Refuse uses waste management as a lens for examining the city’s physical and economic growth over the course of the twentieth century, and the ways in which that growth reinforced class and racial hierarchies.
Advisor: Dr. Kendra Smith-Howard