Michael J. Rawson

For the British track and field athlete, see Mike Rawson.

Michael J. Rawson is a historian, author, and associate professor at the City University of New York's (CUNY) Brooklyn College.[1] He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2011 for Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston.[1][2][3] The book explores Boston's development in relation to its natural surroundings.[4] Rawson received the American Public Works Association (APWA) Abel Wolman Award in 2011.[1]

Rawson was previously on the faculties of University of Wisconsin and Stanford University. He received his Ph.D at the University of Wisconsin in 2005.[1] From 2005 to 2007, he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University.[5][6] Rawson has served on the Public Works Historical Society's board of trustees.[1]

Selected publications

  • "Discovering the Final Frontier: The Seventeenth-Century Encounter with the Lunar Environment," Environmental History 20, no. 2 (April 2015): 194-216.
  • “Creating the Urban Hydraulic Machine: Water, Technology, and the Building of Boston,” in Terje Tvedt and Terje Oestigaard, eds., A History of Water, Series 3, Vol. 1. From Jericho to Cities in the Seas: A History of Urbanization and Water Systems (forthcoming from I. B. Tauris).
  • “The March of Bricks and Mortar” (invited essay), Environmental History 17, no. 4, October 2012.
  • “Rethinking Conservation: The Nineteenth-Century Battle to Save Boston Harbor,” in Richard Judd and Blake Harrison, eds., A Landscape History of New England (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011).
  • “A Horse Is a Horse, of Course, but Also Much More: Recovering the Animal Contribution to the Urbanization and Industrialization of America,” review essay in Journal of Urban History 37, no. 4 (July 2011): 614-618.
  • “Gendered Waters: Boston’s Frog Pond Fountain” in Ari Hynynen, Petri Juuti, and Tapio Katko, eds., Water Fountains in the Cityscape (Kansas City, MO: Public Works Historical Society, 2011).
  • “What Lies Beneath: Science, Nature, and the Making of Boston Harbor,” Journal of Urban History 35, no. 5 (July 2009): 675-697; Finalist, 2010 Alice Hamilton Prize and 2010 Fishel-Calhoun Prize for best article. Reprinted in Anthony Penna and Conrad Wright, eds., Remaking Boston: An Environmental History of the City and Its Surroundings (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009).
  • “On Common Ground: The Overlapping Fields of Environmental History and Planning History,” review essay in Journal of Planning History 7, no. 4 (November 2008): 354-360.
  • “The Nature of Water: Reform and the Antebellum Crusade for Municipal Water in Boston,” Environmental History 9 (July 2004): 411-435; winner, 2005 Michael Robinson Award from the Public Works Historical Society for the best article in the field of public works history.

Books

  • Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston Harvard University Press (2011)[7]
  • The Nature of Tomorrow; A History of the Environmental Future Yale University Press (2021)[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Brooklyn College's Michael Rawson Receives Abel Wolman Award from American Public Works Association". The American Surveyor. October 13, 2011. Retrieved May 31, 2018.
  2. ^ Vary, Adam B. (April 18, 2011). "Pulitzer Prizes announced for 2011". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved June 1, 2018.
  3. ^ "Finalists 2011 Michael Rawson". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
  4. ^ Brady, Michael Patrick (October 13, 2010). "'Eden' traces the roads that led to Boston". The Boston Globe. Retrieved May 31, 2018.
  5. ^ "Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows: 2005-2006". Stanford Humanities. Retrieved June 1, 2018.
  6. ^ "Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows: 2006-2007". Stanford Humanities. Retrieved June 1, 2018.
  7. ^ Rawson, Michael (February 2011). Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-05855-2.
  8. ^ "The Nature of Tomorrow".