Alexandra Straub

Alexandra Straub is a Research Associate at the World History Center and Adjunct Professor in the History Department at the University of Pittsburgh. She holds a PhD in History from Temple University (2020) and specializes in environmental history, focusing on intersections of gender, technology, and non-human nature.

Education:

• PhD in History, Temple University, 2020

Research Interests: Explores women's interactions with water and environmental technology, emphasizing gendered labor, racial justice, and American capitalist consumption patterns. Her current manuscript examines chemical/mechanical water softening's socio-technical history. Recent work analyzes the gendered and racial dimensions of domestic water use in US history.

Publications: Highlighted by Environmental History (2022) for groundbreaking analysis of water politics. Writing trends focus on techno-scientific systems through intersectional lenses.

Affiliations: Active in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program, combining interdisciplinary approaches to historical inquiry.