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Carl Abraham Zimring is an American environmental historian. ==Career== He currently serves as an associate professor and coordinator of the Sustainability Studies minor at the Pratt Institute. Previously, he was an assistant professor at Roosevelt University, where he and Professors Michael A. Bryson and D. Bradford Hunt founded the Sustainability Studies program in 2010.〔Roosevelt University Sustainability Studies Faculty. http://www.roosevelt.edu/ETS/SustainabilityStudies/SustainabilityFaculty〕〔"Roosevelt University establishes region’s first undergraduate degree program in sustainability studies." http://www.roosevelt.edu/News_and_Events/News_Articles/20100202-SustainabilityStudies〕 Zimring’s research focuses on ways that human societies manage wastes, and how waste management practices shape environmental, technological, economic, and social systems. His book ''Cash for Your Trash'' is considered a sweeping account of industrial recycling long before residential recycling became popular, and a fine contribution to urban and environmental history.〔Rutgers University Press. http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/Cash_for_your_Trash_pb.html; Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/dp/081354694X〕 He has published more than twenty essays, reviews, and articles in scholarly journals and publications ranging from ''Environmental History'' to ''History News Network''. Zimring received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002, where he co-authored “The Struggle for Smoke Control in St. Louis: Achievement and Emulation” with his dissertation advisor Joel A. Tarr for Andrew Hurley’s volume ''Common Fields: An Environmental History of St. Louis''.〔Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/dp/1883982154〕 He also holds a BA (1991) from the University of California at Santa Cruz and MA degrees from the University of Chicago (1993) and Carnegie Mellon University (1995). Before arriving at Roosevelt University, Zimring taught a variety of environmental history seminars at Oberlin College, and history surveys at Michigan Technological University and the University of Canterbury. He has been an United States Environmental Protection Agency Science to Achieve Results (STAR) fellow〔National Center For Environmental Research EPA Grant Number: U915838. http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/index.cfm/fuseaction/display.abstractDetail/abstract/2267/report/0〕 and a Smithsonian Institution Libraries Special Collections Baird Society Scholar-in-Residence.〔SIL Home Page: Research & Internships: Research Grants: Baird Society Resident Scholars. http://www.sil.si.edu/ResearchIntern/BairdScholars.htm〕 In 2010, Zimring received the American Society for Environmental History's Samuel Hays Research Fellowship for his forthcoming book project on waste, environmental racism, and whiteness in the United States.〔''ASEH News'', Spring 2010. http://www.aseh.net/publications/aseh-news/newsletter-files/2010_1〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carl A. Zimring」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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