Feb 20: Energy transitions talk

Routes of Power:  Energy Transitions Then and Now.

Christopher F. Jones is a historian of energy, technology, and environment who studies how we have come to use and depend on fossil fuel energy sources. His book, Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America, was published by Harvard University Press in April 2014.  He has written prize winning articles in this domain and writes a blog on energy for the Huntington Post.  He serves as Assistant Professor of History in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University and previously held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard University and University of California-Berkeley.  His Ph.D. in History is from the University of Pennsylvania Department of the History & Sociology of Science Department.

4:30-6 p.m. in Gregg Hall Auditorium (Porter Hall 100 at CMU).