Christopher Sellers is a professor of history at Stony Brook University. His research concentrates on the history of environment and health, of cities and industries, and of inequality and democracy, with a focus on the United States and Mexico.

His last books are Crabgrass Crucible: Suburban Nature and Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America (UNC Press, 2012), and the forthcoming Race and the Greening of Atlanta: Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in a 20^th Century Southern Metropolis, with the University of Georgia Press.

As an IHS Research Fellow 2020-21 at the University of Texas-Austin, he is currently at work on Gathering Clouds over Petropolis, a comparative and transnational history of oil, toxics, and climate in Mexico and the United States.