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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book took me a decade to write, and its completion would not have been possible without the sustenance of many students, colleagues, friends, and family members. I am grateful to my colleagues in the history department at Southern Illinois University, who have helped make our sweet town such a supportive and nurturing place to live and work. I also owe a debt to my students, many of whom have arrived at the university against the cumulative odds created by poverty and geographical isolation. They inspire me every day with their intuitive smarts and basic decency and remind me why teaching matters. I was incredibly fortunate to have Kay Carr as a department chair in the years that I was finishing this manuscript. At a time of great pressure and strain in public higher education, chairs like her, who aim to empower and protect their faculty members no matter what, are unsung heroes.
While conducting my research, I benefited from several archivists who helped me navigate their rich collections. I am especially grateful to Nancy Collins Watson at the University of Pittsburgh Special Collections and Jim Gerencser at the Dickinson College Archives for their assistance. At SIU’s Morris Library, Anna Xiong helped me to track down census data. A big thank-you to Matthew Schneider Mayerson, Finis Dunaway, Rebecca Onion, Roy Scranton, Rodney Taveira, and Clare Corbould for organizing conference panels, talks, and roundtables, where I had the opportunity to share my ideas and learn from others. One of the exciting parts of this project was venturing into the vibrant interdisciplinary fields of environmental and energy humanities. The environment and culture caucus of the American Studies Association and Rice University’s Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences provided space for rich intellectual exchange. I am also grateful to Eric Epstein and Mary Osborne, who shared with me their memories of the accident.
A few institutions and individuals deserve special mention. SIU’s College of Liberal Arts gave crucial support along the way. Likewise, in the summer of 2016, I had the good fortune of being a visiting research fe
llow at the University of Sydney’s United States Studies Centre, a beautiful and congenial place to work. I am grateful to the staff and faculty there, and especially to Rebecca Sheehan, whom I am proud to call a friend and feminist co-conspirator. When this book was still in its infancy, historian Samuel Walker generously shared with me his writings and insights about Three Mile Island. His blow-by-blow account of the accident proved invaluable to me as I sought to tell a different version of the same story. Sandra Beth Levy, Colin Fannon, Mike Fiala, and Sandy Stevens all helped me keep body, mind, and soul together. Ellen Wiesen is the most delightful, supportive mother-in-law one could ask for. At an early stage in the project, Ramzi Fawaz encouraged me to think more boldly and imaginatively about the meaning of mutation. The halls of academe shine more brightly because of him. Meghann Pytka and Kelsey Kretschmer read and responded to an early incarnation of my book proposal, and further down the line, indefatigable historian Nathan Brouwer read the manuscript and provided terrific feedback. At just the right moment, Jacob Haubenreich arrived at SIU and asked where the writing groups were. My gratitude goes out to him, as well as to Laurel Frederickson and Joe Shapiro, for filling the void.
I have caught many lucky breaks in my professional career, but at the very top of the list was landing at a university where the faculty is unionized. During the hundreds of hours that I was working on this book, a small group of dedicated colleagues were tirelessly volunteering their time and energy on behalf of workplace rights. In this case, saying thank you does not seem nearly enough. I am especially indebted to my dear friends George Boulukos and Rachel Stocking, who in the fall of 2011 taught me what solidarity can achieve, even against considerable odds.
I am deeply grateful to Columbia University Press and to editor Philip Leventhal, who saw this book’s potential early on. Shortly after I secured a contract, Philip passed the editorial reins to Bridget Flannery-McCoy. A change in editorship midstream can be stressful for a writer, but Bridget has been a wonderful successor. I thank her for shepherding the manuscript to completion and for encouraging me to pursue my vision. Likewise, whenever I emailed them with a question about an illustration or copyright, Ryan Groendyk and Christian Winting got back to me right away. Two anonymous reviewers provided incisive and thoughtful feedback that made the book better by forcing me to clarify my arguments and be more forthright about the book’s status as a work of cultural history. I could not have asked for a more wonderful interlocutor than Jeremy Varon, who was an enthusiastic reader and trenchant critic. His commitment to both rigorous intellectual work and political activism is awesome.
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