About

Kara Murphy Schlichting is an Associate Professor of History at Queens College, CUNY. She earned her PhD from Rutgers University. Her work in late-19th and 20th-century American History sits at the intersection of urban and environmental history, with a particular focus on New York City.

Schlichting is a co-editor of the H-Environment Roundtable Reviews. She is also co-investigator on the Wellcome Discovery Award project “Melting Metropolis: Everyday Histories of Health and Heat in London, New York, and Paris since 1945.”

Schlichting has published in numerous journals, including the Journal of Urban History, Environmental History, and the Journal of Planning History. Her book New York Recentered: Building the Metropolis from the Shore was published in 2019 with the University of Chicago Press's History of Urban America series.

Her teaching interests range from the city in American history, the history of New York City, and environmental history. She has consulted and served as a reviewer on New York City history, urban history, and environmental history for non-profits, government bodies, and private projects.