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Gerald Markowitz
Distinguished Professor, History
Degrees/Diplomas: PhD, University of Wisconsin
Campus Affiliation: CUNY Graduate Center|John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Research Interests: History of occupational and environmental health
Phone: 212-237-8458

Selected Publications

  • The Contested Boundaries of Public Health, (co-edited with James Colgrove and David Rosner), Rutgers University Press, 2008.
  • Are We Ready? Public Health Since 9/11 (with David Rosner) (Berkeley: University of California Press/ Milbank Memorial Fund, 2006)
  • “From the Triangle Fire to the BP Explosion: A Short History of the Century Long Movement for Safety and Health,” New Labor Forum, 20 (Winter 2011), 26-32. (With D. Rosner)
  • “‘A Problem of Slum Dwellings and Relatively Ignorant Parents’: A History of Victim Blaming in the Lead Pigment Industry,” Environmental Justice, I, 3 (2008), 159-168 (with D. Rosner)
  • “The Politics of Lead Toxicology and The Devastating Consequences for Children,” American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 50 (2007), 740-756. (With D. Rosner)
  • “Politicizing Science: The Case of the Bush Administration’s Influence on the Lead Advisory Panel at the Centers for Disease Control,” Journal of Public Health Policy, 24 (2003),105-129. (With D. Rosner)
  • Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution, (with David Rosner) (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002).
  • Children, Race, and Power: Kenneth and Mamie Clark's Northside Center, (with David Rosner), (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996).
  • Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth Century America (with D. Rosner) (Princeton: Princeton University Press 199l; paperback 1994). (Noted as "Outstanding Academic Book of 1991" by Choice).
  • Dying for Work: Safety and Health in the United States (with D. Rosner) (Indiana: 1987). (Noted as an "Outstanding Academic Books of 1987" by Choice).
  • "Slaves of the Depression": Workers' Letters about Life on the Job (with D. Rosner) (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987).
  • "Workers, Industry, and the Control of Information: Silicosis and the Industrial Hygiene Foundation," Journal of Public Health Policy, 16 (Spring, 1995), 25-58.