About

Dr. Casey A. Huegel is an American historian with a focus on environmental activism. His first book, Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory: Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest, was published in 2024 by the University of Washington Press in their Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series and won the 2025 Junior Scholar Publication Award from the Ohio Academy of History. Casey's current research explores the work of mental health professionals on communities impacted by disasters in the Ohio Valley.

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At the University of Cincinnati, Casey has taught the Environmental Activism and Comparative History courses and served as the book review editor for Ohio Valley History. He is a member of the American Society for Environmental History, the Midwestern History Association, and the Ohio Academy of History, and has worked as a public historian for the National Park Service since 2012. 

 

Casey received his B.S. in Anthropology from Grand Valley State University, M.A. in History from Wright State University, and Ph.D. in History from the University of Cincinnati. Raised in northern Michigan, Casey is a lifelong Midwesterner who lives in Dayton, Ohio, with his wife, Mindy.