The Metropolitan History Workshop presents a

Workshop on Urban and Environmental History

Adam Rome

Associate Professor of History

Pennsylvania State University

Friday, April 13, 2007

3:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Haven Hall, Room 3515 (American Culture Dept.)

This workshop will involve discussion of two precirculated papers:

**"Political Hermaphrodites": Gender and Environmental Reform in Progressive America

**The Peasant in the City: Immigration and Environmental Reform in the Progressive Era

Both papers are drawn from Professor Rome's work-in-progress: NEW CITY, NEW COUNTRY: ENVIRONMENTAL REFORM AND THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN AMERICA. Rome is a former editor of ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY (2002-05) and author of THE BULLDOZER IN THE COUNTRYSIDE: SUBURBAN SPRAWL AND THE RISE OF AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTALISM (Cambridge, 2001).

For access to the precirculated papers, please email Matt Lassiter (mlassite@umich.edu).

For more information on the Metropolitan History Workshop, visit

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mlassite/metro/metroworkshop.html