Jon Wlasiuk was born in the Black Swamp region of northwest Ohio and earned a PhD in environmental history from Case Western Reserve University. He is Assistant Professor at Michigan State University and lives in Cleveland’s Slavic Village neighborhood. He is the author of Refining Nature: Standard Oil and the Limits of Efficiency. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017) and An Alternative History of Cleveland (Belt Publishing, 2024).
Jon Wlasiuk was born in the Black Swamp region of northwest Ohio and earned a PhD in environmental history from Case Western Reserve University. He is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University and lives in Cleveland’s Slavic Village neighborhood. He is the author of Refining Nature: Standard Oil and the Limits of Efficiency. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017) and An Alternative History of Cleveland (Belt Publishing, 2024).
