Catherine McNeur (Ph.D., Yale University, 2012) is an associate professor of history at Portland State University. She is the award-winning author of Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City (Harvard University Press, 2014) and Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science (Basic Books, 2023).
Dr. McNeur teaches courses on global, urban, and American environmental history, the history of food, as well as public history courses focused on historic preservation, podcasting, urban parks, and heritage trees. She has taught at Yale University, New York University, the New School, and Portland State University.
She has won numerous awards for her writing, including the American Society of Environmental Historians' George Perkins Marsh Prize, the Western Association of Women Historian’s Gita Chaudhuri Prize, the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic's James H. Broussard Prize, the New York Society Library's Hornblower Award, the Victorian Society Metropolitan Chapter Book Award, Yale University's John Addison Porter Prize, the American Society of Environmental Historians' Rachel Carson Prize, and the Urban History Association's Best Dissertation Award.
