MIT World Speakers

Kevin Rozario

Kevin Rozario is Assistant Professor in the American Studies program at Smith College. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Yale University, and has previously taught at Oberlin and Wellesley colleges. This year, with the benefit of an NEH fellowship, he is working on a book entitled Nature's Evil Dreams: Disaster and the Making of Modern America. He recently published an essay "What Comes Down Must Go Up: Why Disasters have Been Good for American Capitalism" in Steven Biel, ed. American Disasters (New York University Press, 2002).