https://www.calebwellum.com/teaching daily 0.75 2026-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4c6fb52550e60001e6fedf/24b6b78e-effc-4b2c-8bda-d3377b4a766d/Adolph+Menzel+-+Iron+Rolling+Mill+%5BModern+Cyclops%5D%2C+1872-75.jpg Teaching - A Brief History of Capitalism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4c6fb52550e60001e6fedf/747da694-5910-4abb-82c5-3036d7b1585f/Documerica+Cover+Image-1973.jpg Teaching - Energy, Culture, and Power https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4c6fb52550e60001e6fedf/116da40a-f8e7-4a8f-88da-ecc96eab6886/NASA-Apollo8-Dec24-Earthrise.jpg Teaching - The Environment in History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4c6fb52550e60001e6fedf/dd292492-b722-49e7-b259-931e96fcf96f/atomic-tourism-las-vegas-small.jpg Teaching - The United States in the Twentieth Century Core themes include: modernity, mobility, environmental crisis, capitalism, populism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4c6fb52550e60001e6fedf/deaf6c0b-0a7a-4403-a549-5678e73fc552/iconic-images-1970s-patty-hearst.jpg Teaching - US Politics and Culture in the 1970s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4c6fb52550e60001e6fedf/ac8e6c5d-8f4b-40eb-a4f6-18f6ec518779/banner.jpg Teaching - US History, Colonial Era to 1877 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4c6fb52550e60001e6fedf/f1e4a279-2b99-4c41-8ea1-b00ce55fb334/image.png Teaching - US History, 1877-Present https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4c6fb52550e60001e6fedf/f262a2a2-fc04-4554-8400-55d7f807bf32/Odum+Silver_Spring_Model.jpg Teaching - Communication in the Life Sciences https://www.calebwellum.com/publications daily 0.75 2026-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4c6fb52550e60001e6fedf/a5c1c1eb-f769-45c7-bac1-5b33adde6093/Renewable+Normal.png Publications - University of Nebraska Press (Provocations Series), 2026 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4c6fb52550e60001e6fedf/61556df9-602f-485a-830b-e40fdb921061/EN+Cover+Real.png Publications - Johns Hopkins University Press (Energy Humanities Series), 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4c6fb52550e60001e6fedf/90312862-e643-4113-93a1-af2719a86967/energy+place+cover.png Publications - Mystery Spot Books, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4c6fb52550e60001e6fedf/0e8d7283-8965-4076-8acd-c113d1f5a0de/solarities+cover.png Publications - University of Minnesota Press (Forerunners Series), 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4c6fb52550e60001e6fedf/5ceb580b-c409-4e0f-9393-b18a5b3c0225/szeman_sm_rgb.jpg Publications - West Virginia University Press, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4c6fb52550e60001e6fedf/6fbbe6a2-4255-4221-8850-ea1d54e5ffba/EH+Journal.png Publications - Editorial Collective Lead Launching spring 2026 (in collaboration with Open Library of Humanities) the diamond open access Energy Humanities Journal will be the premiere venue for peer-reviewed research in critical energy studies. We’ll also publish a variety of interviews, think pieces, commentaries, and audio-visual work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4c6fb52550e60001e6fedf/a4999d1a-3040-4b36-bce2-f6512b95cb4f/EH+Website.png Publications - Co-founder / Lead Editor In late 2020, I co-launched (with Imre Szeman & Mark Simpson) this public-facing website that explores new research and ideas about energy, climate, culture, and politics. We also run a popular Instagram account in collaboration with Tatiana Rios. https://www.calebwellum.com/contact-1 daily 0.75 2026-04-09 https://www.calebwellum.com/about daily 0.75 2026-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4c6fb52550e60001e6fedf/1598377498782-MWP1X3ZM95DVGSCEBYSV/A_MOUNTAIN_OF_DAMAGED_OIL_DRUMS_NEAR_THE_EXXON_REFINERY_-_NARA_-_546000.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4c6fb52550e60001e6fedf/1599748844866-MW059NFW06A05BHLWY3C/_DSC3964+-+Copy+%282%29.JPG About - Bio Caleb Wellum is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Environment, Conservation, and Sustainability at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Wellum is a historian working at the intersection of energy, culture, and political economy in the twentieth century. He is the author of Energizing Neoliberalism: The 1970s Energy Crisis and the Making of Modern America (John Hopkins UP, 2023), as well as a variety of pieces in essay collections and leading journals such Cultural Studies, Modern American History, Environmental History, and Enterprise and Society. Wellum is currently at work on a book about the "New Economy" and another about energy and the philosophy of history. As Editor of Energy Humanities and as a member of the Petrocultures Research Group, After Oil Collective, and Fogo Island Collaborative Inquiry, Wellum is also committed to exploring how deep collaboration, methodological experimentation, and public engagement can enliven Humanities research and enrich public discourse. https://www.calebwellum.com/home daily 1.0 2023-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4c6fb52550e60001e6fedf/c2c4d43f-6bf8-41eb-9398-52f3cb25bebc/412-DA-3513_001.jpg Home - Make it stand out Photo by John Messina-EPA Documerica, 1973