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JOHN R. WENNERSTEN
John R. Wennersten is professor emeritus at the University of Maryland and was a senior fellow in Environmental History at the Smithsonian Institution Museum of American History. His works include The Oyster Wars of Chesapeake Bay, which won the Maryland Writers Prize in nonfiction, Anacostia: The Death and Life of An American River, and Global Thirst: Water and Society in the 21st Century. His forthcoming book, scheduled for publication in April, is The Historic Washington Waterfront, which explores the role of the Potomac and Anacostia river waterfront as both a gateway and a barrier to economic, maritime, and racial progress. |