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Sylvia H. Washington <sewhood@uic.edu> I am interested in developing discussion threads around water resources, global warming, climate change and environmental health disparities. |
| Address: | 1N544 Bobolink Drive Winfield, Illinois 60190 United States |
| Primary Phone: | 312-413-3771 |
| Secondary Phone: | 630-690-5420 |
| Fax Number: | 630-690-5448 |
| Web Page: | https://www.uic.edu/depts/ovcr/iesp/about/bios/washington.htm |
| List Affiliations: | Former List Editor for H-Water Reviewer for H-Africa Reviewer for H-Environment |
| Reviews: | untitled untitled |
| Interests: | African American History / Studies American History / Studies Ethnic History / Studies History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Urban History / Studies Women, Gender, and Sexuality |
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Bio: Sylvia Hood Washington, Ph.D. Professional Preparation: Oberlin College Communications A.B 1980 Pre-medicine Case Institute of Technology Systems Engineering MSE 1987 Case Western Reserve University History Ph.D. 2000 Clayton College Natural Health ND 2002 University of Illinois at Chicago Epidemiology MPH Candidate Appointments: University of Illinois at Chicago Research Assoc. Prof. June 2006-Present University of Maryland University College Adjunct Professor January 2005 DePaul University Visiting Faculty 2003-2004 Knights of Peter Claver, Inc. Project Director 2003-Present Illinois Humanities Council Road Scholar 2003-2005 Elgin Community College Full Professor 1993-2004 Devry University Dean 1992 Publications: Packing Them In: An Archaeology of Environmental Racism in Chicago, 1865-1954, Rowman and Littlefield/Lexington Books, December 2004/January 2005. Echoes from the Poisoned Well, Global Memories of Environmental Injustice, co- edited collection, Sylvia Hood Washington (Northwestern University), Paul Rosier (Villanova University) and Heather Goodall (University of Technology, Sydney), Rowman and Littlefield/Lexington Books, January 2006. In progress, The Color of Trees: African American Struggles for A Sustainable Community, 1915-1975, Rowman and Littlefield/Lexington Books, 2008. In progress, The Urban Conservation Movement: 20th Precursive African American Environmentalism, 1915-1965 Ohio State University’s Urban Life and Urban Landscape series 2007/2008 and Race, Technology and Environment, Rutgers University Press, 2009. Synergistic Activities National Project Director, Knights of Peter Claver, Inc.’s Environmental Justice and Health Project. Developed and led a national environmental justice oral history and environmental health literacy program for the Knights of Peter Claver, Inc. , the largest black Catholic lay organization in the world (2002-2006). Outcomes for the project: 55 minute documentary film elucidating the intersections of race, technology and environmental health in Chicago, accompanying study guide and an environmental justice booklet, Struggles for Environmental Justice and Health in Chicago, An African American and Catholic Perspective co-authored Dr. Dawn Nothwehr of Catholic Theological Union and published by Depaul University on February 13, 2005. Member of the University of Illinois at Chicago Environmental Justice Advisory Board, Aldo Leopold Foundation Board Member, Blacks in Green Advisory Board member; member and Co-Chair of the Illinois Public Health Association’s Environmental Health Committee; and member of the Illinois EPA Environmental Justice Advisory Group. |
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