Scott Gabriel Knowles

Thanks for your interest in my work. I am a historian of modern cities-with a focus on risk and disaster.

Please visit my blog here: http://thedisasterexperts.com/

I teach history at Drexel University in Philadelphia where I am also the Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry. I completed my Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in the Department of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology in 2003, after completing an M.A. in history and B.A. in history and philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin.

I am the author of The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America. I am also the author/editor of: Imagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City (UPenn Press, 2009); and have published articles, essays, and book reviews in The Next American City, Isis, History and Technology, the New York Times, Public Works Management and Policy, Technology and Culture, Business History Review, Enterprise and Society, The Smart Set, and Annals of Science.