Christopher C. Sellers book, Crabgrass Crucible, Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America, has been published by The University of North Carolina Press. Sellers, an associate professor of history at Stony Brook University, holds a PhD in American studies from Yale University and an MD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also a faculty member in Stony Brook Medicine’s graduate program in public health.

Sellers is also the author of Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science and co-editor of, among other volumes, Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazards across a Globalizing World.