Reasearch Interests
I write about the social and environmental impact of energy extraction in the mid-Atlantic and Appalachia, especially concerning natural gas drilling and how it has affected rural Pennsylvania. I also examine energy history in global context. My current projects include the book based my dissertation “We Didn’t Start the Fire: Natural Gas Drilling in Pennsylvania Before the Marcellus Boom,” and another work on energy in world history.
Courses Taught at Pitt
- HIST 0700 - World History
- HIST 1090 / SOC 1488 - History of Medicine & Health Care
Education & Training
- PhD, History - University of Pittsburgh
- MA, History - University of Pittsburgh
Representative Publications
Ladson, Marcy. “Palimpsest: Natural Gas and the Layers of Pennsylvania’s Energy Landscape,” Ohio Valley History 17, no. 1 (Spring 2017): 52-70.
Black, Brian C., Anne Norton Greene and Marcy Ladson. “Review Essay:
Energy in Pennsylvania History” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 139, no. 3 (October 2015): 264-289.
Black, Brian C. and Marcy Ladson, "The Legacy of Extraction: Reading Patterns and Ethics in Pennsylvania's Landscape of Energy," Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 79, no. 4 (Autumn 2012): 377-394.