Adam Rome
PhD
Research Areas
The history of environmental activism, business and the environment, sustainability, urban and suburban environments, Frederick Law Olmsted, environmental non-fiction.
Education
- PhD, History, University of Kansas, 1996
- BA, History, Yale University, 1980
Recent Publications
- The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation (New York: Hill and Wang, 2013).
- The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
- Hartmut Berghoff and Adam Rome, editors, Green Capitalism? Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).
- Beyond Compliance: The Origins of Corporate Interest in Sustainability,” Enterprise & Society 22 (June 2021): 409-437.
- DuPont and the Limits of Corporate Environmentalism,” Business History Review 93 (Spring 2019), 75-99.
- “Fashion Forward? Reflections on the Environmental History of Style,” Environmental History 23 (July 2018): 545-566.
- “Crude Reality,” Modern American History 1 (March 2018): 77-82.
- “Frederick Law Olmsted and the Nature of Sustainable Communities,” Solutions 8 (March/April 2017).
- “Sustainability: The Launch of Spaceship Earth,” Nature 527 (November 26, 2015), 443-445.
Courses Taught
- Environmental History
- Environmental Movements
- Business, Sustainability, and Society