Alexandra Straub
Cain Fellow
Alexandra Straub is a historian of environment, science, and technology. She came to the Institute to work on her dissertation, “Making Water Pure: A History of Water Softening from Potash to Tide,” which explores the history of chemical and mechanical water softening.
More from Alexandra Straub
Distillations Magazine
Philadelphia Earth Week, Fifty Years On
The successes and shortcomings of the first Earth Day in 1970 still reverberate.