Chris Wells specializes in U.S. environmental history with additional interests in
the history of technology, cultural history, and urban history. He has published articles
in Agricultural History, Technology and Culture, and the International Journal of
Sustainability in Higher Education, and is currently working on a book for the University
of Washington Press titled "Car Country: Automobiles, Roads, and the Origins of the
Modern American Landscape, 1890-1960", which focuses on the environmental
ramifications of reorienting the nation's landscape around automobiles before 1960.
He is also fascinated by contemporary movements--such as green architecture, the New
Urbanism, and Smart Growth--that are trying to remake the world in a more sustainable
fashion. 

EDUCATION: B.A., Williams College, 1995; M.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1997;
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2004. 

Wells has been teaching at Macalester since 2005. 

Book Reviews

Articles, Peer Reviewed

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Using a Class to Conduct a Carbon Inventory: A Case Study with Practical Results at Macalester College (with Suzanne Savanick Hansen and Christine Manning), International Journal of Sustainability in HIgher Education (2009)
 

Encyclopedia Articles

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Automobile (with James J. Fink), Dictionary of American History (2003)
 

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Baby Boom, Encyclopedia of American History (2003)
 

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Environmental Movement, Encyclopedia of American History (2003)
 

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Trucking Industry (with Don H. Berkebile), Dictionary of American History (2003)
 

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Automobile Industry, Oxford Companion to United States History (2001)
 

Essays