Caleb Wellum
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Room:MN 4278
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Office Hours:Please refer to the syllabus and/or contact via email.
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Mailing Address:
3359 Mississauga Road, Maanjiwe nendamowinan, 4th Floor
Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6
Canada
Biography:
Caleb Wellum is Assistant Professor of US History (CLTA). He writes and teaches about modern U.S. history, politics, and culture. His book about the 1970s energy crisis in the United States—Energizing Neoliberalism—will be out in fall 2023 from Johns Hopkins University Press.
Wellum is Editor of Energy Humanities and a member of the Petrocultures Research Group. He contributed to the collectively authored books After Oil and Solarities and is co-organizer of After Oil 3 at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Wellum has published on the history of film, documentary photography, oil futures trading, energy conservation politics, and the future of the humanities, among other topics. He is currently developing three research projects, books about the history of the 'New Economy'; the relationship between energy, theory, and the practice of history; and a critical carbon tracking app.
Education:
PhD (University of Toronto)
Research Interests:
- Modern US history
- Cultural history
- Energy humanities
- Environmental history
- History of capitalism
- Film
- Philosophy of history
- Low carbon research methods