Dr. Gregory Wilson

Title: Distinguished Professor
Dept/Program: History
Phone: 330-972-8575
Email: gwilson@uakron.edu
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Biography

Gregory Wilson maintains research and teaching interests in modern United States history, especially public history, political economy, environmental history, and Ohio history. Most recently he is the author of Poison Powder: The Kepone Disaster in Virginia and Its Legacy (Series: Environmental History and the American South, University of Georgia Press, 2023). The book was a finalist for the Philip Reed Environmental Writing Award from the Southern Environmental Law Center. His other works include Ohio: A History of the Buckeye State (with Kevin F. Kern; Wiley-Blackwell, 2013; 2nd edition, 2023), Above the Shots: An Oral History of the Kent State Shootings (with Craig Simpson; Kent State University Press, 2016), and Communities Left Behind: The Area Redevelopment Administration, 1945 – 1965 (University of Tennessee Press, 2009). He is also one of the principal investigators for “Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time,” a $2.5 million transnational grant project funded through the Canadian Social Science and Research Council.

Education

Ph.D. - Ohio State University