About . . . Mark H. Rose

Mark H. Rose is professor of history at Florida Atlantic University . Rose works in the areas of cities, technology, business, and public policy. The author of four books, including Interstate: Express Highway Politic, 1939-1989 (University of Tennessee Press, 1990) and Cities of Light and Heat: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995) and more than thirty articles, Rose has also written (with Paul Barrett and Bruce Seely) a forthcoming book entitled Transportation and Public Policy in Twentieth-Century America (2006). His current project (with Marsha Lynn Shapiro Rose) is a history of technology and society in the U.S. since 1945. Rose has served as General Editor of “Technology and Urban Growth,” a monographic series published by Temple University Press, and is currently a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Urban History.