Media
Interviews on Podcasts, Radio, Television, Newspapers, and Magazines
2024
“Mischievous Creatures,” Lost Women of Science, March 28, 2024.
“Talking about Women’s History,” History from the Margins, March 12, 2024.
“Pioneering Scientists with Catherine McNeur,” Remedial Herstory Podcast, 1 January 2024.
2023
“The Mischievous Morris Sisters,” American Heritage 68.8 (December 2023).
“Episode 36: Catherine McNeur Writes With Delight,” Drafting the Past Podcast, 20 November 2023.
Perri Klass, “Naturalists Unknown,” American Scholar, 16 November 2023.
Christoph Irmscher, “Sisters at Work In the Field,” Wall Street Journal, 14 November 2023.
“The Author’s Corner with Catherine McNeur,” Current, 13 November 2023.
“Hidden Figures,” AirMail, 2 November 2023.
Sarah Boon, “The Lost Scientists,” Science 382.6669, 26 October 2023.
Shoshi Parks, “How the U.S. Almost Became a Nation of Hippo Ranchers,” Smithsonian Magazine, May 30, 2023.
“Want to help forgotten women scientists get their due? PSU has a course for that,” Inside Portland State, March 14, 2023.
2022
”Methodological Challenges in Animal History,” Nature’s Past Episode 76, November 28, 2022.
Favorite Sound in America on American Voices with Sen. Bill Bradley (SiriusXM), March 13, 2022.
2021
“Food banks; then Cicada Discoveries; Plus, Kayaks and Whales!” American Voices with Sen. Bill Bradley (SiriusXM), August 8, 2021.
“Loose Hogs, Fancy Dogs, and Mounds of Manure in the Streets of Manhattan,” Everyday Environmentalism Podcast, June 9, 2021.
Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, “The History of New York, Told Through Its Trash,” The New Yorker, April 24, 2021.
2018
Jon Campbell and Christopher Robbins, "The Origin Story of Gramercy Park is a Classic NYC Tale of Real Estate Hucksterism, Cronyism, and Gate Crashing," Gothamist, June 28, 2018.
2017
Tyler Moss, "The 19th-Century Swill Milk Scandal That Poisoned Infants With Whiskey Runoff," Atlas Obscura, November 27, 2017.
Michelle Nijhuis, "A Tree Persists in Brooklyn," The Last Word on Nothing, October 5, 2017.
"Portland's History Told Through Its Trees," Inside PSU, August 23, 2017.
Gywnn Guilford, "The Hogs That Created America's First Working Class," Quartz, July 16, 2017.
2016
Cassie Duncanson, "Students Write and Record Podcasts with KBOO Radio," PSU Vanguard, November 25, 2016.
Tanvi Misra, "How 19th Century Immigration Made New York City Rethink Its Parks," CityLab from the Atlantic, July 7, 2016.
2015
"Catherine McNeur | Heritage Trees," Beyond Footnotes, KPSU, 23 October 2015.
"Community Spotlight: Q&A with Catherine McNeur," Portland State University Institute for Sustainable Sollutions, 29 July 2015.
"Discussion: Health and Sanitation in 19th Century New York," C-Span3 American History TV, 25 July 2015.
"AMA: Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City," Reddit AskHistorians, 24 July 2015.
Interview, "Shades of Green," Portland State College Radio (KPSU), May 7, 2015.
"Another Man's Treasure: A History of Trash," BackStory with the American History Guys, May 1, 2015.
Joseph Rykwert, "Lives of Elms and Pigs," Times Literary Supplement, February 25, 2015.
"Hog Heaven: The Wonderfully Messy Tale of 'Taming Manhattan'," The Bowery Boys: New York City History, February 11, 2015.
"One of the First Gentrification Movements -- The Great Piggery War," The New York Post, February 1, 2015.
"How New York Became a Modern City," Yale University GSAS Newsletter, January 28, 2015.
"Weekly Book List," Chronicle for Higher Education, January 9, 2015.
2014
Food Show, KBOO, December 17, 2014.
Sarah Goodyear, "When Gentrification Meant Driving the Hogs Out of Manhattan," CityLab from the Atlantic, December 16, 2014.
"The Streets of Manhattan Once Flowed With Pigs," Oregon Public Broadcasting: Think Out Loud, December 4, 2014.
Alexander Nazaryan, "'Taming Manhattan': Catherine McNeur's Environmental History," New York Times, December 4, 2014.
"Episode 796," The Monocle Daily, November 24, 2014.
Podcast: City Pigs with Catherine McNeur, Edible Portland, November 2014.
"The Author's Corner with Catherine McNeur," The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Reflections at the Intersection of American History, Religion, Politics, and American Life, October 30, 2014.
"Pigs, Parks, and Power in the Antebellum City: An Interview with Catherine McNeur," DailyHistory.org, October 28, 2014.
"Next Steps: Catherine McNeur," Urban History Association Blog, July 30, 2014.