During academic year 2013-2014, he was a Fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University. In 2009, Maher received the Robert W. Van Houten Award for Teaching Excellence from the NJIT. He holds a BA in History from Dartmouth College and a PhD in History from NYU. He has published articles in academic journals including the Hudson River Valley Review, Environmental History, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, as well as on-line publications and blogs the History News Network and The Edge of the American West. He has one book to his credit, Nature’s New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement, and a new book covering more fully the topic of this lecture.