Neil M. Maher

Neil M. Maher is a professor of history in the Federated History Department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University at Newark, where he teaches American environmental and political history. His most recent book, Apollo in the Age of Aquarius, which was published by Harvard University Press in 2017, examines the relationship between the space race and the grassroots political and social struggles of the 1960s era. It was recently named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, a Bloomberg View Must Read Book, a Smithsonian Best Book on Apollo, and recently received the Eugene M. Emme best book award from the American Astronautical Society (2017). His first book, Nature’s New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement (Oxford University Press, 2008), received the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award for the best monograph in conservation history. Maher’s writing has appeared in academic journals including Modern American History, Social History, and Environmental History, as well as in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Chronicle of Higher Education