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About Gregory Wilson

Gregory Wilson maintains research and teaching interests in modern United States history, especially political economy, public history, environmental history, Ohio history, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Along with various articles and public history projects, he is the author of Communities Left Behind: The Area Redevelopment Administration, 1945 – 1965 (University of Tennessee Press, 2009) and the co-author of Ohio: A History of the Buckeye State (Wiley, 2013) and Above the Shots: An Oral History of the Kent State Shootings (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2016). He was the co-author and content advisor for three Teaching American History grants funded by the Department of Education; combined total over $3 million. He is currently working on a book covering the environmental disaster associated with the pesticide Kepone in Virginia in the 1970s. He is also a co-PI for a multi-year, multi-million dollar research grant: Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time, funded by the Canadian Social Science Research Council (https://deindustrialization.org/about-us/).

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Present Professor, The University of Akron Department of History
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