research overview
- Paul Sutter is an environmental historian whose research has focused on the American wilderness movement, southern environmental history, U.S. imperial environmental history, and other topics. He is currently working on tentatively titled “Pulling the Teeth of the Tropics: Environment, Disease, Race, and the U.S. Sanitary Program in Panama, 1904-1914,” interprets American expansion and imperial public health through the lens of environmental history.