1125 Cumberland Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
phone: 301-405-0527
fax: 301-314-9399
Email: bmendel@umd.edu

Betsy Mendelsohn is a historian of environment and technology who taught STS at the University of Virginia before becoming an instructor in the Scholars STS Program in 2004. She succeeded Prof. James Duncan as Director of this program and the University STS Certificate Program in June, 2007. Dr. Mendelsohn is an active participant in the Society for the History of Technology and the American Society for Environmental History, and teaches as an adjunct lecturer for the University of Maryland History Department. She has published essays on the historical importance of technology to environmental quality and the history of American environmental law. She earned a B.A. in history from Yale University (1983) and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (1999). Dr. Mendelsohn's research focuses on the incorporation of science into the resolution of legal conflicts about sharing resources such as water, air, public roads, and ecological health.

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