Amanda Martin

Overview

Amanda Martin is a historian of the twentieth century United States with research interests in environmental history, African American history, and political history. Her first book project, tentatively titled Greenlining: Civil Rights Struggles Over Access to the Outdoors in the United States, offers a new interpretation of American civil rights that foregrounds battles for environmental equity as central to the movement. She is broadly interested in understanding how green spaces—whether urban parks, gardens, or remote outdoor resorts—have become sites of significant social, political, and environmental history. Amanda has published her work in Environmental History, the Washington Post, Environmental History Now, Zócalo Public Square, and “Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America.” Amanda also practices public history, and has experience leading walking tours, curating museum exhibits, producing podcasts, and creating digital map projects. You can learn more about her work by visiting www.amanda-martin.net.