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SUSAN STRASSER

Susan Strasser is an award-winning historian and a Distinguished Lecturer for
the Organization of American Historians.  She has been praised by the New Yorker
for “retrieving what history discards: the taken-for-granted minutiae of
everyday life.”  Her books include Never Done: A History of American Housework,
Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market, and Waste and
Want: A Social History of Trash.  She is Richards Professor Emerita of American
History at the University of Delaware.

She has two current projects, and is available to lecture about both.  A White
Historian Reads Black History is a series of talks for community and religious
groups.  Snake Oil Revisited is her investigation of the history of medicinal
plants in American culture.

 

 

Photo:  Detail, staple cupboard of Mrs. Paul Minnich, Lancaster, PA,  August
1938. FSA photo by Sheldon Dick. Library of Congress


UPCOMING TALKS, RECENT PUBLICITY, MEDIA

 

 * I talked about garbage disposers for “The Monster Under the Sink,” an episode
   of 99 Percent Invisible.
 * I’m quoted in  “Spring Housecleaning was Once Backbreaking Work. For Many, It
   Still Is,”published in the NYTimes on April 11, 2023.
 * My work on trash was featured on the LiveKindly website
 * The podcast Ephemeral did an episode about my work, especially my book Waste
   and Want.
 * I’ve got a cameo on a trash episode of the kids’ science podcast Brains On
 * I was interviewed by Kristine Ullaland, of Norway’s Zero Waste Norge, for her
   podcast Zero Waste Nation
 * Amanda Mull used my work in “American Shoppers are a Nightmare,” one of her
   many terrific Atlantic articles on consumer culture.
 * I published an article about the “origins of our plastic addiction” in The
   Guardian.
 * I gave a talk and interview at Amerika Haus in Vienna, Austria, on the
   occasion of the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination.  They
   made a little video.  Copyright US Embassy, Vienna.
 * Marcia Cole and I appeared on Lynn Borton’s “Choose to be Curious,” audio
   online.


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