Expertise

Elizabeth Grennan Browning is a U.S. historian, focusing on environmental history, intellectual history, urban history and cultural history.

Historian Elizabeth Grennan Browning studies how people in the Midwest have thought about and engaged with environmental issues since the nation’s founding. She is interested in understanding how attitudes about the environment have formed and changed among different groups, and how evolving ideas about social justice have influenced these opinions.


Browning studies how people in the Midwest have thought about environmental issues over time, how attitudes about the environment have formed and changed among different groups, and how evolving ideas about social justice have influenced these opinions.


Keywords: Environmental history; 19th- and 20th-century urban history

Keywords

  • 20th century
  • U.S. History
  • Cultural History
  • Environment and Society
  • Historical Teaching and Practice
  • Labor and Work
  • Urbanism and Architecture
Past Affiliations

PhD Student, Department of History, College of Letters and Science, University of California, Davis (past)

Communities
History
Degrees
BA, Northwestern University, Philosophy and International Studies
PhD, University of California, Davis, History