A Greenhouse Research Talk by Sam Muka, Stevens Institute of Technology. All are welcome.
Post WWII coastal engineering is a field with few archival records. Publications are highly localized, have limited copies, and are difficult to access online. And current budget constraints and political opposition to the Humanities have slashed archive and library budgets throughout the States, limiting the intake of new resources and purging those seen as unneeded or out-of-date. This talk will look at the various ways of sourcing modern coastal engineering documentation and ask questions about the role of the historian in collecting and archiving documents, both for current projects and for later use.
Sam Muka (she/her) is an associate professor and director of the Science, Technology and Society program at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. Her work examines the development of marine sciences in the United States in the 20th century. Currently, she is writing a book on the history of coastal engineering and waste management post WWII.