Gregory S. Wilson

Gregory Wilson was born in Kearny, New Jersey and moved to Newport News, Virginia at age nine. He earned his Ph.D. in History from The Ohio State University and has been teaching at the University of Akron since 2001. His research areas are in recent U.S. history, Ohio history, and public history. His latest work is on environmental history and deindustrialization, including a transnational project: Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time: https://deindustrialization.org/