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 environmental history, political history, and the history of environmental justice in the United States. His most recent book, Apollo in the Age of Aquarius (Harvard 2017), examines the relationship between the space race and the grassroots political and social struggles of the 1960s era. The book was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, a Bloomberg View Must Read Book, a Smithsonian Best Book, and received the Eugene M. Emme best book award from the American Astronautical Society (2017). Maher’s writing has also appeared in academic journals including Modern American History, Social History, and Environmental History, as well as in more popular news outlets including the New York Times, The Washington Post, and Yes! magazine. Currently, Maher is a resident fellow at the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers in Manhattan, where he will be researching and writing an environmental justice history of Newark, New Jersey.