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Gregg Mitman

Gregg Mitman is a professor and historian of science, medicine, and environment at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich.

More from Gregg Mitman

A boy cutting into the bark of tree

The Human Price of American Rubber

Segregated lives of privilege, pride, and peril on Firestone’s Liberian plantations.