William Cronon's Students

This page has become fairly long--one of the joys of my life has been the chance to work with some really wonderful students--so if you're looking for a particular person, it's probably easiest to use the search function in your browser to locate their name.

Students are listed in three blocks, each organized alphabetically:

• current students;
• past students whose dissertations I directed; and
• past students with whom I worked very closely.

Current Students:

(listed alphabetically)

David Bernstein
UW-Madison History Department
Email: dbernstein@wisc.edu
Address: 302 S. Cassady Ave. Columbus, OH 43209
Phone: (614) 599-0826
Fields of Interest: American Indian History, environmental history, U.S. West, mapping and cartography
Current Projects: Ph.D. Dissertation (in progress): "How the West was Drawn: Maps, Indians, and the Construction of the Trans-Missouri West," explores the interaction of American Indians and Euro-Americans on the eastern plains during the nineteenth century. It investigates how maps and the process of mapping helped incorporate the region that would become Kansas and Nebraska into the American geo-body. Its main premise is that this incorporation was a contested, contingent, and negotiated process that was neither completely embraced by contemporary Americans, nor opposed out of hand by Indigenous inhabitants of the region. Mapping was part of the discourse of colonialism that ultimately displaced native inhabitants, but it was also a forum for Indian leaders to act out their geo-political strategies; strategies that were not necessarily incompatible with American spatial constructions.

Scott Burkhardt
UW-Madison History Department
Email: stburkhardt@wisc.edu
Address: Dept. of History, 3211 Humanities Bldg, 455 N. Park St., Madison, WI, 53706
Fields of Interest: environmental history; religious history; political history; and intellectual and cultural history
Current Project: My dissertation, tentatively titled “Am I My Planet’s Keeper? American Environmentalism and Religious Culture since the 1960s,” will narrate selected episodes when Americans’ environmental concerns have intersected with their religious commitments.  Without pretending to be comprehensive, it will seek to understand some of the ways in which environmental and religious values have both clashed and corresponded with one another. 

Sarah Camacho
UW-Madison History Department
Email: scamacho AT wisc.edu
Address: Dept. of History, 3211 Humanities Bldg, 455 N. Park St., Madison, WI, 53706
Fields of Interest: urban environmental history; the American West; historic preservation; environmental conservation; Chicago

Andrew Case
UW-Madison History Department
Graduate Research Affiliate, Center for Culture, History, and Environment
Email: ancase@wisc.edu
Address: 5024 Humanities,455 N. Park St.,Madison, WI, 53706
Fields of Interest: Broadly, I am interested in twentieth-century American environmental history; I focus on debates about food, health, and agriculture after World War II and their role in shaping environmental politics and culture.
MA Thesis: "The Battle for Our 'Precious Bodily Fluids': Fighting Fluoridation in Postwar America"
Current Projects: Dissertation in progress: "Making an Organiculture: J.I. Rodale, The Rodale Press, and American Environmental Culture," which uses the life of publisher and organic food enthusiast Jerome Rodale to explore the cultural history of mid-twentieth century natural food and health movements and the emergence of modern environmentalism

Liese Dart
UW-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Email: ldart@wisc.edu
Address: 840 Jenifer Street Madison, WI 53703
Phone: (970) 379-4862
Fields of interest: environmental history, the rural American South, environmental filmmaking, earthworks/land art, energy conservation / demand side management programs, politics.

Todd Dresser
UW-Madison History Department
Email: dresser@wisc.edu
Address: 5034 Mosse Humanities Building, 455 N. Park, Madison WI 53706
Fields of interest: environmental history of agriculture and rural development, the intersection between religion and the environment
Current Projects: My dissertation, tentatively titled From Saving Country Life to Preserving the Family Farm, asks two intertwined questions: (1) How did the category of "the family farm" emerge within the discipline of rural sociology in the first half of the 20th century and (2) how did farmers' organizations, tied to this emerging academic discipline, craft an environmental politics focused on saving country life in the Progressive Era, and later on preserving family farms in the New Deal and WWII eras? Answering these questions leads me into some obvious territory - environmental, cultural, and intellectual history - and some not-so-obvious territory - religious history and geography - since many Progressive era rural sociologists were committed social gospelers and mapmakers. On a more general level, I am interested in the ways historical actors endeavor to inscribe their values into their landscapes and the degree to which their efforts to do so are successful. My study concentrates on figures such as Liberty Hyde Bailey, Charles Galpin, and Carl Taylor, along with agencies and organizations such as the Presbyterian Home Missions Board, the Institute for Social and Religious Research, the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, and the USDA's Division of Farm Population and Rural Life.

Ariel Eisenberg
UW-Madison History Department
Email: eisenberg2@wisc.edu
Address: 3211 Mosse Humanities Bldg, Box 5107, 455 North Park Street, Madison, WI, 53706
Phone: (201) 247-9755
Fields of Interest: 20th century urban history; queer history and body theory; the built environment; spatial theory.
Current Projects: My MA thesis is entitled "Life on the Margins: The Contested Space of Greenwich Village's Hudson River Waterfront, 1890-2001." My thesis engages spatial and cultural theory to discuss the ways that New York City residents used and envisioned the waterfront in the wake of industry’s decline in the second half of the twentieth century. It explores how the creation of Hudson River Park in 2001 disrupted the communities of queer youth of color, transgender people, prostitutes, and other homeless and socially marginal people that had formed in the abandoned piers and warehouses of the waterfront.
My dissertation project will explore urban homelessness in the 1980s and 1990s.

Todd J. Goddard
UW-Madison English Department (Russ Castronovo, advisor)
Email: tgoddard@wisc.edu
Address: Department of English, 7187 Helen C. White Hall, 600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (267) 975-2619
Fields of Interest: American literature, environmental history, literature and the environment
Current Projects: My research explores the role of land speculation in North America between 1780 and 1860 and how various writers addressed, critiqued, understood, or participated in it.

Brian Hamilton
UW-Madison History Department
Email: bfhamilton@wisc.edu
Address: Dept. of History, 4055 Humanities Bldg, 455 N. Park St., Madison, WI, 53706
Phone: (917) 886-4663
Fields of Interest: environmental history; race and ethnicity; the Civil War and Reconstruction; Atlantic slavery; environment and health; historical memory; GIS; progressive education.

Doug Kiel
UW-Madison History Department (co-advising with Ned Blackhawk)
Email: dkiel@wisc.edu
Phone: (920) 723-3640
Fields of Interest: American Indian history; federal Indian law & policy; comparative indigenous studies; the American West & frontier; environmental history; Wisconsin & the Midwest
Current Project: My dissertation, "The Oneida Resurgence: Modern Indian Renewal in the Heart of America," interrogates notions of success and well-being by exploring the dramatic revitalization of one tribal community during the 20th century, highlighting a complex process of accommodation, resistance, renewal, and change.

Christopher J. Limburg
UW-Madison Geography Department (co-advising with Matt Turner)
Email: cjlimburg@wisc.edu
Website: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/cjlimburg/web/
CV: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/cjlimburg/web/CV.1.htm
Address: 550 North Park St. Madison, WI, 53706
Phone: (608)262-6523
Fields of Interest: Himalaya, Buddhism, place, space, Nagas, and spiritual ecology

Adam Mandelman
UW Madison - Geography Department
Email: mandelman@wisc.edu
Address: Room 550 Science Hall, 550 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706
Fields of Interest: cultural and historical geography, environmental history, roads and trails, memory, tourism, American West, Hawai'i, Mississippi River
Current Projects: My recently completed master's thesis - "Walking Through Time and Place: The Cultural Politics of Hawai'i's Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail" - examined problems of historical and cultural representation around a set of ancient foot trails on Hawai'i's Big Island. I am currently looking to expand this project into a dissertation about the negotiations between history and memory that take place along tourist routes and journeys.

Jennifer Adams Martin
UW-Madison History Department
Email: jamartin4@wisc.edu
Address: Department of History, 4072 Mosse Humanities Building, 455 North Park St., Madison, WI 53706-1483
Fields of interest: environmental history, U.S. West, history of science, oral history, cultural history, and service learning.
Current Projects: Ph.D. Dissertation (in progress): “When the Shark Bites: Transformations of Sharks in American Cultures and Waters in the Twentieth Century.” My dissertation explores how Americans’ ideas about sharks—as garbage fish, perfectly-evolved killing machines, endangered marine predators, or luxury consumer goods—have expressed themselves via scientific, cultural, and commercial practices. I argue that these historical relationships have contributed to steep declines in many shark populations in unexpected and complicated ways.

Elizabeth Mills
UW-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Email: esmills AT wisc.edu
Fields of Interest: American environmental history, New England, historical geography, sense of place, regionalism, environmental education, land protection, reading the landscape.

Nicolaas Mink
UW-Madison History Department
Email: njmink@wisc.edu
Address: 824 Williamson Street #104, Madison, WI 53703
Phone: (815) 409-0979
Fields of Interests: Food studies; environmental and cultural history;19th and 20th-century U.S.
Current Projects: My dissertation, "The Restaurant: Food, Power, and Social Change," explores the growth and consolidation of the restaurant industry after World War II. My work blends the methodologies of gender, cultural, business, and environmental histories in hopes of coming to a fuller understanding the restaurant’s place in American history. The dissertation argues that restaurants emerged in the postwar era as pivotal spaces where ideas of middle-class domesticity, forms of service labor, and types of cuisine were created and recreated to reflect the negotiations between the desires of industry and the wants of the American consumer.

Abby Neely
UW-Madison Geography Department (co-advising with Matt Turner and Neil Kodesh)
Email: aneely@wisc.edu
Website: http://ngiyazama.blogspot.com/
Address: Science Hall, 550 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706, U.S.A.
Fields of Interest: environmental history, political ecology, South Africa, agriculture, health and healing, oral methods, international development
Current Projects: "Health and Nature in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Zululand." In 1936 the South African government designated Pholela, South Africa a Betterment or anti-soil erosion area. In 1940 the government established its first rural health center, the Pholela Community Health Centre, in the area. This confluence of health and agricultural interventions followed from the idea that healthy people and healthy land were necessarily united, and further that both could be improved through scientific interventions and teachings. However, when the agricultural extension offices and health assistants began working in local communities they found a place rich with local understandings and practices. This dissertation explores the interactions of local, Zulu-speaking ideas and practices surrounding both health and agriculture from the 1930s to the present with scientific ideas and teachings. I argue that while both landscapes and bodies were indelibly marked by these government projects, especially between 1940 and 1975, local understandings of ritual healing and local preferences in agriculture continue to drive the way people interact with and understand their local environment.

Hannah Nyala West
UW-Madison History Department
Email: nyalawest@wisc.edu
Website: www.pointlastseen.com
Address: 3211 Mosse Humanities, 455 N. Park St., Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 234-2320
Fields of Interest: sociocultural and environmental history of the long 18th century (1670s to 1830s!), with particular emphasis on maritime, frontier, and colonial encounters of the early U.S. republic.
Current Projects: "At Sea in the World (or, The UnNatural Histories of a Ship): The Cruise of U.S. Frigate ESSEX, 1798-1837." By situating Nukuhiva (an island in the "Marquesas") and Salem (Massachusetts) as the twinned conceptual and geophysical centers of this project's known world, I am laying the groundwork to treat this ship as a sociocultural community and environmental habitat in motion. Using ethnographic and historical methods, I am tracking how a series of events spawned by the frigate's presence at Nukuhiva (in 1813) have been remembered and retold in performances and narratives, archival sources (captains’ logs and papers, ships’ manifests, military and civilian correspondence, and newspaper accounts), and museum collections from London, Lisbon, Paris, Seville, Santiago and Valparaíso, Oahu, Nukuhiva, Sydney, Washington, D.C., and Salem.

Megan Raby
UW-Madison History of Science Department (Gregg Mitman, dissertation director)
Email: raby@wisc.edu
Website: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/raby/web
Address: Department of the History of Science, Bradley Memorial Building, 1225 Linden Dr., Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 320-0534
Fields of interest: history of biology, environmental history, 19th- and 20th-century US and transnational, national/imperial expansion, US West, Caribbean, geography of scientific knowledge, cultural and intellectual history
Current projects: I am beginning a dissertation on US tropical biology in the Caribbean after 1898. This dissertation will focus on US tropical research stations, such as Harvard's Botanical Station for Tropical Research and Sugarcane Investigation, Cuba, and the Canal Zone Biological Area at Barro Colorado Island, Panama. I plan to examine these field stations through the lens of colonial science and hope to uncover forgotten relationships between US and Latin American scientists, as well as to trace the connections between economic botany and US commercial expansion in the region. I am interested in how such work may have contributed to a shift from ideas of tropical "abundance" or "luxuriance" to "biodiversity."

Kelly A. Roark
UW-Madison History Department (co-advising with Susan Johnson)
Email: karoark@wisc.edu
Websites: www.kellyroark.com; https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/karoark/web/
Address: 631 W. Skelton St., Fayetteville, AR 72701
Phone: (479)445-6893
Fields of Interest: environmental history, U.S. western history, history of medicine, history of science, Southwest, healthseeker, environment and health, food history, landscape studies
Current Projects: “From Last Resort to Curative Region: The Transformation of the Southwest, 1850-1940,” doctoral dissertation co-advised by William Cronon and Susan Johnson. I am a doctoral candidate in the UW-Madison Department of History studying U.S western and environmental history.  My dissertation explores ideas of health and southwestern landscapes from the 1850s to the 1940s.  It rests at the intersection of environmental history, history of science and medicine, and U.S. western history and draws upon theories of the body, medicine, and science in colonial settings.  It foregrounds the discourses of health Anglo migrants used to understand the landscapes they encountered and explores the ways in which perceptions of healthfulness informed the remaking of regional identity, ethnic and racial identity, and social structures in the Southwest. 

Emma Schroeder
UW-Madison Geography Department
Email: easchroeder@wisc.edu
Address: 550 North Park St., Madison, WI, 53706
Phone: (207) 907-9141
Fields of Interest: Food systems, sustainable agriculture, environmental history, environmental justice, conservation.

Travis Tennessen
UW-Madison Geography Department
Email: tptennessen@wisc.edu
Address: 408 Science Hall, 550 N. Park St., Madison, WI 53706
Keywords: Rural/Historical Geography, Land-use conflict, Wilderness, American West, Local History, Great Plains
Current Project: My MSc thesis explores the historical roots of land-use conflict in North Dakota's Little Missouri Badlands, including the influence of public land grazing, mineral development, and relationship between the Little Missouri National Grasslands and Theodore Roosevelt National Park. I am especially interested in the different meanings, connotations, and historical underpinnings of the ideas of "conservation" and "wilderness" in the context of current conflicts over resource management and preservation.

Amrys O. Williams
UW-Madison History of Science Department (Gregg Mitman, dissertation director)
Email: aowilliams@wisc.edu
Address: 7143 Social Science Building, 1180 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706
Fields of Interest: environmental history; history of science; history of technology; agricultural/rural history; ecology; 20th-century U.S.
Current Projects: I recently completed a master's thesis entitled "Head, Heart, Hands, and Health: 4-H, Ecology, and Conservation in Wisconsin, 1930-1940," which examined the ways in which Wisconsin's 4-H club leaders drew on the teachings of ecology to inform a holistic approach to rural reform during the Depression and World War II. I am currently working on expanding this project into a dissertation on 4-H in the U.S. and abroad.

Keith Woodhouse
UW-Madison History Department
Email: kmwoodhouse@wisc.edu
Address: 2835 Hillegass Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705
Fields of Interest: U.S. environmental history, cultural/intellectual history, political history, the twentieth century
Current Projects: My dissertation, in progress, is a history of radical environmentalism in the late twentieth century. In particular, I am looking at the role of anarchist thought in the environmental movement from the late 1960s through the early 1990s. I am especially interested in the political and ethical relationships among environmentalists, social justice activists, and the modern liberal state. 

Back to top

Past Students Whose Dissertations I Directed

(listed alphabetically; date of dissertation provided in each entry)

Thomas G. Andrews
Assistant Professor of History, University of Colorado Denver
Email: thomas.andrews@ucdenver.edu
Address: Department of History, University of Colorado Denver, Campus Box 182, P.O. Box 173364, Denver, CO, 80217-3364
Phone: (303) 556-2419 (office)
Fields of interest: environmental history; history of the American West; labor history; Native American history; animal history; history education; suburban history
Dissertation: “The Road to Ludlow: Work, Environment, and Industrialization in Southern Colorado, 1870-1914,” University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department, 2003 (published as Kllling for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War, Harvard University Press, 2008).
Current Projects: I'm in the early stages of conceptualizing a book on race, nature, and suburbanization; an animal history of the United States; and a narrative history that uses a little-known railroad survey conducted in 1867 to explore the intersection of experience, history, and memory in the American West and Mexican North.

William Cameron Barnett
North Central College History Department
Email: wcbarnett@noctrl.edu
Dissertation: "From Gateway to Getaway: Labor, Leisure, and Environment in American Maritime Cities," University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department, 2005.

Dawn Biehler
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Department of Geography and Environmental Systems
Email: dbiehler@umbc.edu, dawn.biehler@gmail.com
Address (office): 211 Sondheim Hall, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD USA 21250
Phone (office):  410-455-2095 
Fields of interest: US urban environmental history, environment and health, environmental justice, urban social geography, housing, human-animal interactions
Dissertation: "In the Crevices of the City:  Public Health, Urban Housing, and the Creatures We Call Pests, 1900-2000," University of Wisconsin-Madison Geography Department, 2007.
Current projects: I am currently revising my doctoral dissertation, which is an environmental history of public health pests and pest control in US cities and suburbs since about 1900.  In it I examine animals such as roaches, rats, bedbugs, mosquitoes, and house flies, and the technologies and methods people have used to manage them. I am interested in the ways institutions, especially local public health departments and environmental regulators, along with residents, have grappled with the need to understand the behavior of animals and chemicals in the environments of home and neighborhood. In this project I seek to bring not only animals and health, but also housing, household chemicals, and infectious disease into environmental history. 

Flannery Burke
Department of History, St. Louis University
Email: fburke@slu.edu
Website: http://www.slu.edu/x22357.xml
Address: 3800 Lindell Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63108
Phone: 314-977-2910
Fields of Interest: U.S. West, American Southwest and U.S.-Mexico border, environmental history, cultural history, Women's Studies, visual culture
Dissertation: “Finding What They Came For: The Mabel Dodge Luhan Circle and the Making of a Modern Place, 1912-1930,” University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department, 2002 (published as From Greenwich Village to Taos: Primitivism and Place at Mabel Dodge Luhan's, University Press of Kansas, 2008).
Current Projects and Interests: 1) a book-length cultural history of the twentieth-century American Southwest; 2) a study of how westerners have viewed the American East, tentatively titled, "Back East: the East of the Western Imagination."

Joseph F. Cullon
Dartmouth College History Department
Email: Joseph.Cullon@Dartmouth.edu
Website: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~history/faculty/cullon.html
Address: 6107 Carson Hall, Hanover, NH 03755
Phone: (603)646-1938 (office)
Fields of Interest: Early American environmental, economic, and maritime history.
Dissertation: "Colonial Shipwrights and Their World: Men, Women, and Markets in Early New England," University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department, 2003.
Current Projects: Shipbuilding Unviel'd: Maritime Artisans and Economic Culture in Colonial New England. This book-length manuscript poses then resolves the problem of how an English settler population with little maritime experience became the most important colonial center of maritime manufacturing in just more than sixty years. In addition, Joe is at work on the material and symbolic uses of accounting in revolutionary American as well as on the public market riots in eighteenth-century Boston.

Christine B. Damrow
Email: damrowcb@yahoo.com
CV: html pdf
Address: 2150 Winnebago St., La Crosse, WI 54601
Phone: (608) 782-1886
Fields of Interest: environmental history, social history, history of education, environmental education, 20th-century U.S.
Dissertation: "'Every Child in a Garden': Radishes, Avocado Pits, and the Education of American Children in the Twentieth Century," University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department, 2005.

Mark Davis
(Deceased, 1/6/2009)
Century College History Department
Email: m.davis@century.edu
Address: History Department, Century College, 3300 Century Ave. N, White Bear Lake, Minnesota, 55110
Fields of Interest: Most of my audience is students who I try to convince that History is the best story around. I also do research into the environmental history of Minnesota (which is a far more interesting place than Wisconsin!).
Dissertation: "An Empire in Waiting: Northern Wisconsin's Lake Country, 1880-1940," University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department, 1997.
Current Projects: I have presented several papers on duck-hunting in southwestern Minnesota and have a forthcoming article on it in Minnesota History. I am now working on a paper and possible article on open space issues in St. Paul since 1975. I also have a project researching Minnesota's early game wardens.

Philip Deloria
University of Michigan, History Department and Director, Program in American Culture
Email: pdeloria@umich.edu
Website: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/history/facstaff/facultydetail.asp?ID=56
Address: Program in American Culture 3700 Haven Hall 505 State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Fields of Interest: American Cultural History, Environment, Native American
Dissertation: "Playing Indian: Appropriation and Otherness in the Performance of American Indian Identity," Yale University (co-directed with Howard Lamar), 1994 (published as Playing Indian, Yale University Press, 1998, winner of a 1999 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights).
Current Projects: My current project is "Reading Mount Rushmore," a consideration of the built structures, trails, roads, and sightlines that seek to inculcate different affective experiences of the nation. My second book was Indians in Unexpected Places (Kansas, 2004), which explores the shifts in the ideologies and expectations attached to Indian people at the turn of the twentieth century--and the ways Native artists, singers, actors, athletes, and early adopters of technology challenged and lived within those expectations.

James W. Feldman
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh History and Environmental Studies
Email: feldmanj@uwosh.edu
Website: http://www.uwosh.edu/history/faculty/feldman.php
Fields of Interest: American and world environmental history, 20th Century U.S., U.S. West
Dissertation: "Rewilding the Islands: Nature, History, and Wilderness at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore," University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department (co-directed with Nancy Langston), 2004.

Amy S. Green
Dissertation: "Savage Childhood: The Scientific Construction of Girlhood and Boyhood in the Progressive Era," Yale University, 1995.

Emily Greenwald
Historical Research Associates, Inc., Missoula, MT
Website: www.hrassoc.com
Address: 125 Bank Street, 5th Floor, Missoula, MT 59802
Phone: (406) 721-1958 (work)
Fields of Interest: Native American History, Environmental History, Federal Indian Policy, Indian Law, Environmental Law
Dissertation: "Allotment in Severalty: Decision-Making During the Dawes Act Era on the Nez Perce, Jicarilla Apache, and Cheyenne River Sioux Reservations," Yale University, 1994 (published as Reconfiguring the Reservation: The Nez Perces, Jicarilla Apaches, and the Dawes Act, Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2002).
Current Projects: I work as a consultant doing historical research and writing, largely related to Iitigation in Native American and environmental issues.  Outside of my consulting work, I am interested in the history of photography and national parks tourism.

Zoltán Grossman
Evergreen State College, Geography / Native American & World Indigenous Peoples Studies
Email: grossmaz@evergreen.edu
Website: http://academic.evergreen.edu/g/grossmaz
Address: Lab 1,  Room 1015, The Evergreen State College 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, WA 98505
Phone: (360) 867-6153 (work)
Fields of Interest: Interethnic relations, Native American sovereignty, Environmental justice, Mapping and historical cartography
Dissertation: "Unlikely Alliances: Treaty Conflicts and Environmental Cooperation Between Native American and Rural White Communities," University of Wisconsin-Madison Geography Department, 2002.
Current Projects: Co-Chair, Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) : http://www.pacificworlds.com/ipsg
Senior Research Associate, Northwest Indian Applied Research Institute (NIARI):http://nwindian.evergreen.edu
Co-coordinating NIARI's Climate Change and Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations Project: http://academic.evergreen.edu/g/grossmaz

Marcus Hall
University of Utah History Department / University of Zurich
Email: hall@history.utah.edu
Website: http://hum.utah.edu/display.php?module=facultyDetails&personId=875&orgId=298
Address: Dept. of History, University of Utah, 380 S 1400 E, Salt Lake City, UT   84122-0311
Fields of Interest: transatlantic environmental history;  environmental restoration;  exotic species;  malaria;  environmental health; salvage archaeology; Europe, Italy, Sardinia, U.S. West
Dissertation: "American Nature, Italian Culture: Restoring the Land in Two Continents," University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute for Environmental Studies, 1999, winner of the Rachel Carson Prize of the American Society for Environmental History.
Current Projects: I explore early efforts and ideas of environmental restoration in Earth Repair: A Transatlantic History of Environmental Restoration (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005), winner of the Antoinette Forrester Downing Book Award of the Society of Architectural Historians.  As a response to declensionist history, I aim to show that those who believed in restoration did not always agree on what they wanted to restore, or how, or to what form.  My new project focuses on links between environmental health and human health by tracing efforts to eradicate malaria with powerful new pesticides.

Blake Harrison
Department of Geography, Southern Connecticut State University
Email: blakeharrison1@gmail.com
Website: http://blakeharrison1.googlepages.com/
Address: 111 Swarthmore St. Hamden, CT 06517
Phone: (203) 745-1112
Fields of Interest: cultural and historical geography; environmental history; rural landscapes; New England
Dissertation: "Tourism and the Reworking of Rural Vermont, 1880-1980," University of Wisconsin-Madison Geography Department, 2003; published as The View from Vermont: Tourism and the Making of an American Rural Landscape, University of Vermont Press, 2006.
Current Projects: My research and teaching explore the historical and cultural geography of North America, with a particular emphasis on New England, rural landscapes, tourism, amenity spaces, and the social contours of environmental debate. I have written articles on historical and contemporary land use in New England for journals such as the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Cultural Geographies, Journal of Historical Geography, among others. My book, The View from Vermont: Tourism and the Making of an American Rural Landscape (University Press of New England, 2006), examines tourism's role in the production of rural landscapes and rural identity in American culture. I am currently working on two book projects. The first is a co-edited project (with Richard Judd) entitled, History of the New England Landscape. The second is a history of migrant farm work in New England. I have taught at Yale University, Southern Connecticut State University, Montana State University-Bozeman, and Quinnipiac University.

Lynne Heasley
History and Environmental Studies, Western Michigan University
Email: lynne.heasley@wmich.edu
Website: http://www.wmich.edu/history/facultystaff/facultyprofiles/heasley.html
Address: 3928 Wood Hall, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI  49008
Phone: (269)387-2778
Fields of Interest: environmental history; rural, Great Lakes/Upper Midwest, cultural geography, Environmental Studies, Canadian studies, Comparative regional history, GIS applications
Dissertation: "A Thousand Pieces of Paradise: Property, Nature, and Community in the Kickapoo Valley," University of Wisconsin-Madison Forestry Department (co-directed with Ray Guries), 2000; published as A Thousand Pieces of Paradise: Landscape and Property in the Kickapoo Valley, University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.
Current Projects: Currently I am carrying out research for a book on the environmental history of the Great Lakes region.  Following that project, I plan to begin a book examining the Peace Corps.

Karl Jacoby
Brown University History Department
Email: Karl_Jacoby@brown.edu
Website:http://research.brown.edu/research/profile.php?id=10090
Address: Department of History, Brown University, Box N, Providence, RI  02912
Phone: (401) 863-2131
Dissertation: "The Recreation of Nature: A Social and Environmental History of American Conservation, 1872-1919," Yale University (co-directed with Howard Lamar), 1997 (winner of Yale's Porter, Beinecke, and Eggleston prizes; published as Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation, University of California Press, 2001; co-winner of the George Perkins Marsh Prize of the American Society for Environmental History for the Best Book in Environmental History for 2001; winner of the Littleton-Griswold Prize of the American Historical Association for the best book on the history of American law and society published in 2001).

Susan Johnson
University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department and Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program
Email: sljohnson5@wisc.edu
Website: http://history.wisc.edu/people/faculty/johnson.htm
Address: History Dept., Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, 3221 Humanities, 455 N. Park St., Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608-263-1848 (work)
Fields of Interest: North American West, Race and Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality
Dissertation: "'The Gold She Gathered': Difference, Domination, and California's Southern Mines, 1848-1853," Yale University (co-directed with Howard Lamar), 1993 (published as Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush, New York : W. W. Norton & Co., 2000; winner of the Bancroft Prize, 2001).
Current Projects: My current project is “A Traffic in Men: The Old Maid, the Housewife, and Their Great Westerner,” a critical biography that contextualizes the collaboration of two white women, published but amateur historians, who practiced what I conceptualize as a “traffic in men,” in part through their life-long fascination with the famous westerner Christopher “Kit” Carson. It examines relationships between women historians and male historical subjects, and between professional historians and their amateur counterparts. It explores the practice of history in the context of everyday life, the seductions of gender in the context of racialized power, and the spatial dimensions of 20th-century relationships predicated on 19th-century regional pasts.

Sarah Marcus
Chicago Historical Society
Email: marcus@chicagohistory.org
Address: Chicago Historical Society, 1601 N. Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60614
Phone: 312-799-2045 (work)
Fields of Interest: Urban, midwestern, social, political, environmental, cultural, twentieth-century, and recent U.S. history
Dissertation: "Up From the Prairie: Descriptions of Chicago and the Middle West in Popular Culture, 1865-1983," University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department, 2001.
Current Projects: In addition to continuing my role as Project Director of the online Encyclopedia of Chicago (www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org), I am working on a manuscript that explores depictions of Chicago and the Middle West in popular culture.  I am also helping to develop tours of Chicago, including an excursion that focuses on the city's role in cinema and television.

Sarah L. Mittlefehldt
Email: sarahmitt@hotmail.com
Fields of Interest: environmental history, community-based conservation, cultural landscapes
Disssertation: “The Tangled Roots of the Appalachian Trail: A Social and Environmental History,” University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Forest and Wildlife Ecology, (co-directed with Nancy Langston), 2008.
Current Projects: I'm revising my dissertation for publication as a book examining how the processes of conflict and cooperation between citizen volunteers, landowners, and state agencies shaped the creation of the Appalachian Trail. My goal is to explain how the Appalachian Trail project helped to pioneer the path for twenty-first-century environmental policy by setting important precedents for public land policy, and by serving as a premier example of public-private partnership throughout the twentieth century.

Milford B. Muskett
Cornell University Natural Resources & American Indian Studies
Email: mm454@cornell.edu
Address: Department of Natural Resources & American Indian Studies, Cornell University, 122E Fernow Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853
Phone: (607) 255-3133
Dissertation: "Identity, Hózhó, Change, and Land: Navajo Environmental Perspectives," University of Wisconsin-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, 2003.

Eric Olmanson
Associate Researcher, University History Project, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Email: eolmanso@wisc.edu
Website: http://eolmanso.googlepages.com/home
Address: 5274 Humanities Building, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 455 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706-0469
Phone: (608) 263-1106
Fields of Interest: cultural and historical geography; environmental history
Dissertation: "Romantics, Scientists, Boosters, and the Making of the Chequamegon Bay Region on the South Shore of Lake Superior, 1820-1920's," University of Wisconsin-Madison Geography Department, 2000; published as The Future City of the Inland Sea: A History of Imaginative Geographies of Lake Superior, Ohio University Press, 2007.
Current Projects: Completing a history of the UW-Madison College of Letters and Science

William Philpott
Illinois State University History Department
Email: wphilpo@ilstu.edu
Website: http://www.history.ilstu.edu/philpott.shtml
Dissertation: "Consuming Colorado Landscapes, Leisure, and the Tourist Way of Life," University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department, 2002.

Jenny Price
Freelance Writer, Los Angeles Urban Ranger
Email: jjprice@ucla.edu
Fields of Interest: environmental writing, environmental history, urban design, Los Angeles, American West, public space, popular culture, literary nonfiction
Dissertation: "Flight Maps: Encounters with Nature in Modern American Culture," Yale University, 1998 (winner of Yale's Eggleston and Porter prizes; published as Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America, Basic Books, 1999).
Current Projects: "Public Access 101" series, LA Urban Rangers; tours of LA River; pieces, possible book project on the progress and pitfalls of the 21st-century Green Revolution

Louise Pubols
Chief Curator of History, Oakland Museum of California
Email: lpubols@museumca.org
Website: http://www.museumca.org/
Address: 1000 Oak St., Oakland, CA 94607
Phone: (510) 238-3844 (office)
Fields of Interest: Mexican California, 19th century, Gender, Ethnicity, Pacific Rim
Dissertation: "The de la Guerra Family: Patriarchy and the Political Economy of California, 1800-1850," University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department, 2000. Forthcoming as The Father of All: The de la Guerra Family, Power, and Patriarchy in Mexican California, Huntington Library Press.
Current Projects: I'm currently working on a complete reinstallation of the Oakland Museum's history gallery, set to open in May of 2010.

Michael J. Rawson
Brooklyn College (CUNY) History Department
Email: mrawson@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Website: http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/pub/Faculty_Details5.jsp?faculty=666
Address: Department of History, Brooklyn College, 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11210
Phone: (718) 951-5000, x1166 (office)
Fields of Interest: Environmental history; urban history; U.S. social and cultural history; utopian thought.
Dissertation: “Nature and the City: Boston and the Construction of the American Metropolis,” University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department, 2005 (under contract with Harvard University Press).

Thomas Robertson
Worcester Polytechnic Institute Department of Humanities
Email: tbrobert@gmail.com
Website: http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/HUA/People/robertson.html
Addresss: Department of Humanities, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, MA, 01609
Phone: Phone:  (508)831-5871
Dissertation: "The Population Bomb: Population Growth, Globalization, and American Environmentalism, 1945-1980," University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department, 2005.
Fields of Interest: U.S. environmental history, the history of American foreign relations, twentieth-century America, American relations with the developing world, American debates about population growth, Nepal and American development projects there.

Kevin Rozario
Smith College American Studies Program
Email: krozario@smith.edu
Website: http://www.smith.edu/ams/execcomm.html
Fields of Interest: Popular culture, media studies, cultural theory, environmental studies
Dissertation: "Nature's Evil Dreams: Disaster and America, 1871-1906," Yale University, 1996; published as The Culture of Calamity: Disaster & the Making of Modern America, University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Current Projects: "Making Sense of American Culture" (under contract with Blackwell Press); "Whatever Happened to the Underground?: A History of Subterranean American Art and Politics" (in progress).

Christopher C. Sellers
State University of New York, Stony Brook Department of History
Email: csellers@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
Website: http://www.sunysb.edu/history/faculty/facultybio/sellers.htm
Address: Department of History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY  11794
Phone: (631) 632-1412
Fields of Interest: Environmental history, legal history, policy, environmental justice, human rights, public health, toxics
Dissertation: "Manufacturing Disease: Experts and the Ailing American Worker," Yale University, 1991 (published as Hazards on the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997).
Current Projects: I have been writing essays and co-editing volumes on the intersections between environmental history and other history fields (including special issues of Business History Review and Osiris). I'm now completing a project entitled "Unsettling Ground: Sprawl, Nature, and the Making of Environmentalism in PostWWII America," and have begun a new study on the passage of industrial hazards from the developed to the developing world.

Carol Sheriff
College of William and Mary History Department
Email: cxsher@wm.edu
Address: The Lyon Gardiner Tyler Department of History, The College of William and Mary, Box 8795, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Fields of Interest: Social and cultural history of the antebellum and Civil War eras
Dissertation: "'The Artificial River': The Erie Canal and the Paradoxes of Progress, 1817-1862," Yale University, 1993 (published as The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862, Hill & Wang, 1996).
Current Projects: I am co-authoring (with Scott Reynolds Nelson) a social and cultural history of the Civil War era. Entitled A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America's Civil War, it is due out from Oxford University Press in early 2007. I have also joined the author team for Mary Beth Norton et al., A People and A Nation, eighth edition.

Kendra Smith-Howard
University at Albany-SUNY History Department
Email: ksmithhoward@albany.edu
Website: http://www.albany.edu/history/smith_howard/
Address: Social Sciences 60Q, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222
Phone: (518) 442-5375
Fields of Interest: environmental history; rural and agricultural history; twentieth-century U.S. history; public health
Dissertation: "Perfecting Nature's Food: A Cultural and Environmental History of Milk, 1900-1975," University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007.
Current Projects: I am currently revising my doctoral dissertation, which takes a deceptively simple staple of the American diet—milk, and traces how the product was transformed in the twentieth century. My project pays close attention to the consequences of the pursuit of milk purity for the array of animals and plants on the farm, and also for the humans who tended them. Ultimately, I reveal how Americans’ shifting understandings of health and risk, combined with changing definitions of food purity, produced new agricultural landscapes.

Marienka Sokol
UW-Madison History Department
Email: msokol@wisc.edu
Address: 405 Overbrook Rd., Baltimore, MD, 21212.
Fields of Interest: 19th and 20th-century U.S. western and environmental history; urban water use and urban landscapes, particularly in the Southwest.
Dissertation: "Illusions of Abundance: Culture and Urban Water Use in the Arid Southwest," University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007.
Current Projects: My dissertation explores the important but often overlooked role that cultural factors have played in shaping urban water use in the U.S. Southwest. Focusing on various water-intensive landscapes in Tucson, Phoenix and Las Vegas, my thesis aims to shed light on how an array of factors has influenced urban southwesterners' decisions about how to use scarce water resources.

Steven Stoll
Fordham University History Department
Email: steven.stoll@sbcglobal.net
Website: http://www.fordham.edu/history/faculty/stoll.shtml
Fields of Interest: environmental history, agriculture, political economy
Dissertation: "The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Horticulture and the Industrial Countryside in California," Yale University (co-directed with Howard Lamar), 1994 (winner of Yale's Beinecke Prize, the W. Turrentine Jackson Award of the Pacific Coast Branch of the AHA in 1995, and Yale's Heyman Prize for an outstanding manuscript on any subject in the humanities; published as The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998).
Current Projects: The Great Delusion: A Mad Inventor, Death in the Tropics, and the Utopian Origins of Economic Growth (Hill & Wang, 2008)  The book considers the idea of economic growth as it emerged during the 1830s and 1840s.  It follows the life and career of John Adolphus Etzler, a German engineer and Hegelian idealist who emigrated to the United States in 1831 and who invented a machine, the Satellite, to eliminate all human labor.  In the mix are the pervading thinking about physics, energy, the tropics, and material progress in general, toward a picture of what I call the "new materialism" of the nineteenth century.

David Stradling
University of Cincinnati History Department
Email: david.stradling@uc.edu
Website: http://www.artsci.uc.edu/history/stradling.shtml
Dissertation: "Civilized Air: Coal, Smoke, and Environmentalism in America, 1880-1920," University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department, 1996 (published as Smokestacks and Progressives: Environmentalists, Engineers, and Air Quality in America, 1881-1951, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999).
Current Projects: I've just published a book entitled Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills (University of Washington Press, 2007). I am currently studying Cleveland's Cuyahoga River, using reactions to the many fires on the river to track changes in residents' relationships to the city's industrial economy and environment. I'm also editing a collection of primary documents on the history of 1960s-70s environmentalism as a follow-up to the reader I produced for the University of Washington Press entitled Conservation in the Progressive Era: Classic Texts.

Gregory Summers
Associate Vice Chancellor of Teaching, Learning, and Academic Programs, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Department of History and Office of Academic Affairs
Address: 202 Old Main, UW-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI 54481
Email: gsummers@uwsp.edu
Website: http://www.uwsp.edu/history/faculty/summers_gregory/
Phone: (715) 346-4446 (office)
Fields of Interest: American environmental history, history of technology, consumer society
Dissertation: "A Place for Nature: The Industrial Origins of Environmental Politics," University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department, 2001 (published as Consuming Nature: Environmentalism in the Fox River Valley, 1850-1950, University Press of Kansas, 2006).
Current Projects: The Comforts of Nature: A Natural History of the American Home (in progress). While most books about the environment look to the wilderness as a standard against which to measure human society, this book looks instead to our houses. By exploring the history of American domestic life--and by asking how people participated firsthand in industrialization and the adoption of new technologies, urban and suburban development, and growing resource use and pollution--I hope to understand the meaning of nature in contemporary American culture.

Samuel Truett
University of New Mexico History Department
Email: truett@unm.edu
Website: http://www.unm.edu/~hist/faculty.html
Address: Department of History, 1104 Mesa Vista Hall, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131-1181
Phone: 505-277-6210 (office)
Fields of Interest: Borderlands History, Environmental History, U.S. and Mexico, Cultural and Social History, Transnational History
Dissertation: "Neighbors by Nature: The Transformation of Land and Life in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1854-1910," Yale University (co-directed with Howard Lamar), 1997; published as Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Yale University Press, 2006.
Current Projects: My current book project is “America’s Ghosts: Ruins, Lost Worlds, and the Borderlands of Empire,” which approaches the story of U.S. territorial and economic expansion west across North America and south into Latin America (especially Mexico and Central America) through the fascination with ruins and lost worlds. It asks how U.S. expansionist borderlands—often imagined as landscapes of American novelty, abundance, and youth—were also places where the nation was most deeply haunted by visions of American antiquity, loss, and mortality.

Jennifer Turner
UW-Madison History Department
Email:montana@aya.yale.edu
CV: html pdf
Address: 98 Farm View Road, Bethany, CT 06524
Fields of Interest: Western, Native American, Colonial, Comparative, Race and Ethnicity, Environmental
Dissertation: "From Savagery to Slavery: Upper Louisiana and the American Nation," University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department, 2007.
Current Project: My dissertation observes the shifting cultural universe of Upper Louisiana, from 1764-1830.  Two claims underlie it: that superior Indian power in the eighteenth century caused Upper Louisiana to develop a culture oriented toward Indians rather than toward European norms; and that Americans perceived the close relationship among Creoles and Indians and linked them rhetorically, and not approvingly, as much the same kind of people.  To these claims are added a pair of interrelated arguments: that racialized ideas about appropriate agriculture were critical to the linking of Creoles and Indians in the American mind, and to debates over who ought to live in Upper Louisiana and whether they could own land or be citizens; and that Creole elites’ use of American anti-Indian prejudice to define Creoles as appropriate citizens and landholders constitutes an important and overlooked part of the construction of a white American identity in the early republic.

Louis Warren
University of California, Davis History Department
Email: lswarren@ucdavis.edu
Website: http://history.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Warren_Louis
Fields of Interest: American West, environmental, Native American, California
Dissertation: "The Hunter's Game: Poachers, Conservationists, and Twentieth-Century America," Yale University (co-directed with Howard Lamar), 1994 (published as The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America, Yale University Press, 1997).

Marsha Weisiger
New Mexico State University History Department
Email: mweisige@nmsu.edu
Website: http://www.nmsu.edu/~histdept/Weisiger/weisiger.html
Address: PO Box 30001, MSC 3H, Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
Phone: (505) 646-4037 (office)
Dissertation: "Diné Bikéyah: Environment, Cultural Identity, and Gender in Navajo Country," University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department, 2000.
Fields of Interest: Environmental history of the Southwest borderlands; Borders, Boundaries, and Frontiers; Environment, Ecology, and Culture
Current Projects: Sheep Dreams: Environment, Identity, and Gender in Navajo Country, an environmental, cultural, and social history of Diné pastoralism (in progress, University of Washington Press); an environmental and intellectual history of "wildness" along Western rivers; essays on New Age environmentalism.

Christopher W. Wells
Macalester College Environmental Studies Department
Email: wells@macalester.edu
Website: http://www.macalester.edu/environmentalstudies/faculty.htm#Wells
Address: Department of Environmental Studies, 1600 Grand Ave., St. Paul, MN 55105
Phone: (651) 696-6803 (office)
Fields of Interest: environmental history; history of technology; consumer culture; green architecture; US since 1877
Dissertation: "Car Country: Automobiles, Roads, and the Shaping of the Modern American Landscape, 1890-1929," University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department (co-directed with Paul Boyer), 2004.
Current Projects: "Car Country: Automobiles, Roads, and the Origins of Car Dependent Landscapes" (book manuscript in progress); I am also in the early stages of a book project examining the idea of "building with nature" as a theme in American domestic architecture.

Back to top

Past Students With Whom I've Worked Closely:

(listed alphabetically)

Ryan M. Acton
University of California-Berkeley, History Department
Email: acton@berkeley.edu
Fields of Interest: intellectual history; critical and social theory; aesthetics; sexuality
Current Projects: history of desire

Ben Alexander
Headwaters Economics, Associate Director
Email: ben@headwaterseconomics.org
Website: www.headwaterseconomics.org
Address: P.O. Box 7059, Bozeman, MT, 59771
Phone: (406) 599-7423
Fields of Interest: rural development, land management
Current Projects: energy development, wildfire, and public lands planning in the West

Jennifer Allen
Associate Director, Portland State University Center for Sustainable Processes and Practices
Email: jhallen@pdx.edu
Website: http://www.pdx.edu/sustainability
Address: Box 751, Mail Code OIA, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97207-0751
Phone: (503)725-8546
Fields of Interest: sustainable agriculture, sustainable economic development
Current Projects: Creating Oregon University System Signature Research Center focused on clean energy, bio-based products, and green development; serving on boards of the Food Alliance, Shorebank Pacific, Illahee, and Portland Energy Conservation Inc.

Edward J. Balleisen
Duke University History Professor, Associate Professor
Email: eballeis@duke.edu
Website: http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/history/faculty/eballeis
Address: 210 Carr Building, Dept. of History, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919)684-2699
Fields of Interest: American Economic Culture/Institutions, American Law and Society
Current Projects: A History of Commercial Fraud in America, 1815 to the present

Josh Barkan
Independent writer of fiction and creative writing, teacher at Harvard, NYU, and Boston University
Email: barkanj@yahoo.com
Website: www.joshbarkan.com
Addresses: 237 W. 109th St., Apt. 4D, New York, NY 10025 (home)
Phone: (212) 662-2008 (home) or (617) 519-8350 (cell)
Fields of Interest: Contemporary American fiction. Author of Before Hiroshima: The Confession of Murayama Kazuo and Other Stories; and Blind Speed: a novel. Particular interest in the writers John Cheever, Saul Bellow, John Updike, Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, George Saunders, and Ishmael Reed.

Daniel Belgrad
University of South Florida Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies
Email: dbelgrad@cas.usf.edu
Website: http://www.cas.usf.edu/humanities/belgrad.html
Address: Dept. of Humanities and American Studies, CPR 107, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620
Phone: (813)974-9388
Fields of Interest: 20th-century American culture; 19th-century American culture; environmental history;
U.S. – Mexico transnationalism
Current projects: history of U.S.-Mexico cultural interaction, 1930s through 1950s; Cultural history of the lie-detector machine.

Katie Benton-Cohen
Georgetown University History Department
Email: kab237@georgetown.edu
Address: Department of History, Georgetown University, ICC 600, 3700 O Street NW, Washington, DC 20057
Phone: (202)687-1524
Interests:U.S. women's history; American West; history of race and immigration; Gilded Age and Progressive Era America
Current work: I am currently completing a book entitled Borderline Americans: Making Racial Division in the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands scheduled to be published by Harvard University Press in Spring 2009. My next book project is a history of the U.S. Congress's Dillingham Commission, a massive study of "new immigration" conducted from1907-1911 that laid the groundwork for immigration restrictions of 1917 and the 1920s.

Eric D. Carter
Grinnell College, Anthropology Department
Email: cartered@grinnell.edu 
Website: http://web.grinnell.edu/anthropology/Faculty/carter.html
Address: 1118 Park St., Grinnell, IA 50112
Phone: (641) 269-4343
Fields of interest: Disease and Environment, Political Ecology, Conservation and Development, Latin America, Teaching Interdisciplinary GIS
Current Projects: Continued work on the environmental history of malaria control in Argentina; historical construction of regional/national identity in Misiones province, Argentina; environmental attitudes of migrants to the U.S.; Lyme disease and land use change.

David Chang
University of Minnesota History Department
Email: dchang@umn.edu
Phone: (641) 269-4366
Fields of Interest: West, American Empire and colonialism, race, rural, class, American Indian, African American, Oklahoma, Hawaii, Native Hawaiian
Current Projects: The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and Rural Class Conflict in Eastern Oklahoma, 1860-1940. In The Color of the Land, I examine the interaction of class, nationalism, and the politics of race in America. Using the case of the Muskogee (Creek) Nation and its neighbors in eastern Oklahoma, I demonstrate how rural class conflict shaped the ways that Native Americans, African Americans, and whites defined the political meaning of their racial and national identities.

Catherine A. Corman
Non-resident fellow, Charles Warren Center, Harvard University
Email: catherine.corman@verizon.net
Fields of Interest : nineteenth-century social and cultural history, material culture studies, history of the American West, Native American history, and history of the book
Current projects: Positively ADD! (Walker & Company, forthcoming spring 2006); Reading, Writing, and Removal (University of California Press, forthcoming).

Abigail S. Crouse
Attorney, Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty & Bennett, P.A.
Email: abigail.crouse@gpmlaw.com
Website: http://www.gpmlaw.com/law/page_79_466.htm
Address: 500 IDS Center, 80 South Eighth Street, Minneapolis, MN 55402
Phone: (612)632.3044 (work)
Fields of interest: Higher Education Law and Employment Law

Todd M. DeBruin
Managing Associate, McManis & Monsalve Associates
Email: tdebruin@mcmanis-monsalve.com; debruin1@hotmail.com
Website: www.mcmanis-monsalve.com
Address: 7518-20 Diplomat Drive, Suite 201, Manassas, VA 20109
Phone: (703)331.3890
Fields of Interest:  Organizational assessment, design, and improvement; Strategic Planning; Facilitation; Intelligence Analysis
Current Projects:  I work for a management consulting firm in the Washington D.C. area helping organizations improve their effectiveness by planning for and navigating change. 

Lisa Diekmann
Regional Development Director, Montana/Wyoming, The Wilderness Society
Email: lisa_diekmann@tws.org
Website: www.wilderness.org
Address: 503 W. Mendenhall, Bozeman, MT  59715
Phone: (406) 586-1600
Fields of Interest: wilderness protection, national parks, public land management, environment, environmental history, wildlife management, wolves, Native Americans, history of the American West, and women in the American West.
Yale Undergraduate Thesis: “More than Camp Followers: Army wives on the Western Frontier”

Kurk Dorsey
University of New Hampshire , Associate Professor
Email: kd@unh.edu
Address: 20 College Road, Durham, NH, 03824
Phone: (603) 862-3022
Fields of Interest: U.S. foreign policy; environmental diplomacy
Current Project: My current project is a diplomatic and environmental history of Antarctic whaling in the 20th century.

Pam Felt
Outreach Director, Gathering Waters Conservancy
Email: pam@gatheringwaters.org
Website: www.gatheringwaters.org
Address: 211 S. Paterson, Suite 270 Madison, WI, 53703
Phone: (608)251-9131 x11 (office)
Fields of Interest: Private land conservation, land trusts, conservation easements, communication and message development for conservation non-profits.

Edward Frantz
University of Indianapolis History Department
Email: efrantz@uindy.edu
Website: http://history.uindy.edu/faculty/frantz.php
Phone: (317)788-4906
Fields of Interest: African American history, Gilded Age, Progressive Era, 20th century U.S. history, midwestern history

Jean S. Fraser
Chief, San Mateo County Health System
Email: jfraser@co.sanmateo.ca.us
Website: www.smhealth.org
Address: 225 36th Avenue, San Mateo, CE 94403
Phone: (650) 573-2585
Fields of Interest: Getting to universal health care; urban planning, especially transportation planning to encourage biking, public transit use, pedestrian activity; people's relationship to their physical landscape and how it affects them emotionally and physically.
Current Projects: Achieving universal health insurance for children in San Francisco (done); helping progressive Mayor develop universal access model on local level (done); getting San Francisco to live up to its progressive vision by promoting biking, public transit, and pedestrian activity (ongoing); dealing with California budget crisis and how it impacts California counties, particularly health departments.

Kendra Frederick
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemsitry, Yale University
Email: kendra.frederick@yale.edu
Fields of Interest: amyloid proteins, protein misfolding, kinetics and thermodynamics, macromolecular self-assembly, biophysics
Current Project: Ph.D. dissertation, "Thermodynamic origins of amyloid fiber stability." I am interested in what the driving thermodyanmic forces underlying amyloid fiber formation are, and whether the fiber state is actually the most thermodynamically stable or whether it represents a kinetically trapped state. These biophysical studies of amyloid formation should lead to an insight into the many diseases associated with amyloid proteins, including Alzheimer's disease, Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, and type II diabetes.

Joseph Fronczak
Yale University History Department
Email: joseph.fronczak@yale.edu
Address: Department of History, Yale University, P.O. Box 208324, New Haven, CT, 06520
Fields of interest: U.S. social and political history, global history
Current projects: I am working on my dissertation, a political-movement history of the Popular Front. I am also working on a project concerning political economy along the nineteenth-century Mississippi River, beginning in Spanish Louisiana and finishing in southwestern Wisconsin mining country.

Michael Lewis Goldberg
Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program/American Studies concentration, University of Washington, Bothell; Graduate Faculty, University of Washington
Email: mlg@u.washington.edu
Website: http://faculty.uwb.edu/mgoldberg/
Address: Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Bothell, Box 358530, 18115 Campus Way NE, Bothell, WA 98011-8246
Fields of Interest : gender; popular culture/cultural studies; film studies; American Studies method; literary analysis; meanings of “nature” and their relationship to environmental policy; historical thinking; scholarship of teaching and learning/learning theory/educational technology; assessment practices; and information literacy and research/writingskills.
Dissertation: “An Army of Women: Gender Relations and Politics in Kansas Populism, the Woman Movement, and the Republican Party, 1879-1896"  published as An Army of Women: Gender and Politics in Gilded Age Kansas (Johns Hopkins, 1995).
Current Projects: I am currently spending most of my time on the scholarship of teaching and learning, including designing a database-driven teaching and learning system for historical study.  My research includes gauging the effectiveness of teaching historical concepts and skills for transferable learning, rethinking educational “efficiency” and “accountability” in “holistic” terms, and probing the disconnect between underlying student desires and fears and their stated motivations.  I am also studying problems of disconnected cause-effect analysis in college-level U.S. history textbooks and the lack of impact by the scholarship of textbook effectiveness on textbook writers and the textbook industry.

Michel Hogue
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Carleton University
Email address: Michel_Hogue@carleton.ca
Website: http://www.carleton.ca/history/faculty_staff/faculty/michel_hogue.html
Physical Address: Department of History, 400 Paterson Hall, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6, CANADA
Fields of Interest: American Indian/Indigenous history, North American West, Canadian history, borderlands, environmental history, race & ethnicity
Dissertation: Between Race and Nation: The Plains Métis and the Canada-United States Border, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009.

Dan Jones
Founder, Chairman, and CEO, 21st Century Parks, Inc.
Email:  dj@21cparks.org
Website: www.21cparks.org
Address:  471 West Main Street, Suite 202, Louisville, KY, 40223
Phone:  (502) 584-0350
Fields of Interest: sustainable design; urban parks; the future city; natural history of the Ohio River Valley; environmental history; frontier history; urban history.
Dissertation:  “The Panorama From Point Sublime:  John Wesley Powell’s ‘Religion of Science’ and the Intellectual Origins of His Arid Lands Reforms”
Current Project:  Founder and CEO of 21st Century Parks, Inc, a non-profit corporation dedicated to the preservation of open space and the creation of new parks in Louisville, Kentucky.  To date, we have raised over $60,000,000 and preserved over 3000 acres of new parkland, creating one of the largest metropolitan park projects in the country.  Our ultimate purpose is the reintegration of nature and sustainable design into urban planning and growth, not as an exercise, but through the shaping of 21st century cities by creating, funding, and developing large parks and open space systems.

Teresa B. Jones
Greenfield Community College, Science Department
Program Coordinator, Renewable Energy / Energy Efficiency
Email: jones@gcc.mass.edu
Website: www.gcc.mass.edu
Address: One College Drive, Greenfield, MA 01301
Phone: (413) 775-1462
Fields of Interest: Renewable Energy / Energy Efficiency; green jobs; plant biology; sustainable agriculture
Current Project: Our "Sustainable Practices in Construction" initiative strives to integrate academic education and workforce training to give career entry and lifelong advancement opportunities to our residents and help grow a sustainable economy in our region. We are also working to advance sustainable insitutional practices at GCC to offer leadership in energy use/carbon reduction and keep costs of higher education as low as possible. (GCC is the only higher educational institution in Franklin County, the poorest county in Massachusetts). The next phase in my work will include oversight of design and construction of an 'energy neutral' greenhouse on campus and reinventing the plant science curriculum.

Jane Kamensky
Brandeis University History Department, Associate Professor
Email: kamensky@brandeis.edu
Address: Department of History, Mailstop 036, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110
Phone: (781)736-2275
Fields of Interest: colonial American, early American republic, cultural history
Current Project: The Exchange Artist:  A Story of Paper, Bricks, and Ash in Early National American (Viking, forthcoming 2007)

Shira Kelber
Traveling in Asia, starting dual-degree program in law and public administration in 2006
Email: Susanin22@hotmail.com
Address: 2600 Monterey Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55416
Phone: (952)922-3973 (messages only; email preferred)
Fields of interest: Creating and maintaining communities and improving social welfare. Non-profit management, public policy, and social entrepreneurship in the areas of international sustainable development and health care policy.

Mary Lammert Khoury
The Nature Conservancy, Great Lakes Program, Aquatic Ecologist
Email: mkhoury@tnc.org
Website: http://nature.org/greatlakes
Address: 8 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 2301, Chicago, IL 60603
Phone: (312) 759-8017 x. 16
Fields of Interest: Conservation, Great Lakes, Stream Ecology, Biodiversity
Current Projects: Freshwater biodiversity conservation of Great Lakes

Rev. Katie Givens Kime
Trinity Presbyterian Church, Atlanta GA, Associate Pastor for Adult Ministries
Email: katie@givens.net; kgkime@trinityatlanta.org
Websites: www.trinityatlanta.org
Address: 3003 Howell Mill Rd NW, Atlanta GA 30327
Phone: (404)495-8444
Fields of Interest: Interfaith relations; sustainable environmental practices as theological priorities for religious communities; international relief & development efforts; adult religious education

Christian J. Krautkramer
Student, University of Minnesota Law School
Email: krautkramer@gmail.com
Address: 432 Ridgewood Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55403
Other Degrees: Master of Public Health in Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights; Boston University
Fields of Interest: law and bioethics; confluence of bioscience, law, and economics; access to health care and barriers to access; child health policy; the ethics of health policy; professionalism and public trust

Nathan Larson
Community GroundWorks at Troy Gardens, Education Director
UW-Madison Department of Landscape Architecture, Senior Outreach Specialist
Email: nathan@troygardens.org
Website: www.troygardens.org
Address: 3601 Memorial Drive, Suite 4, Madison, WI, 53704
Phone: (608) 240-0409
Fields of Interest: environmental education, natural history, environmental history, land stewardship, urban natural areas, public health, community gardens and farms, sustainable agriculture, permaculture, affective connections to land
Current Projects: Youth Grow Local—a program designed to support youth gardening, farming, natural areas restoration, and nature study at urban schools, community gardens, and natural areas.

Jill Lepore
Harvard University, Professor of History & Chair, History and Literature Program
Email: jlepore@fas.harvard.edu
Website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu~history/facultyPage.cgi?fac=lepore
Address: 126 Barker Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
Fields of Interest: early American history

Patty Loew
University of Wisconsin-Madison Dept of Life Sciences Communication, Associate Professor
Email: paloew@wisc.edu
Website: http://www.lsc.wisc.edu/pattyloew.htm

Charlie Lord
Executive Director, Urban Ecology Institute; Chair, Urban Ecology Collaborative
Email: lordca@bc.edu
Website: www.urbaneco.org
Address: 355 Higgins Hall, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Phone: (617) 552-0928 (work)
Fields of Interest: Urban ecology, urban environmental education, urban sustainability
Current Projects: Urban climate change; urban ecology collaborative; urban tree canopy; urban environmental studies course materials for high school curricula.

Nancy Menning
Ph.D. candidate, Univ. of Iowa, Dept. of Religious Studies
Email: nancy-menning@uiowa.edu
Website: http://myweb.uiowa.edu/nmenning/
Address: 902 N. Dodge St., Apt. A1, Iowa City, IA 52245-5912
Phone: (319) 325-1355
Fields of Interest: ethical theory, environmental ethics, literature and religion, religion and ecology
Current project: I am writing about the creative nonfiction of Terry Tempest Williams, focusing on how the narrative form reveals creative aspects of moral reasoning regarding human-land relationships in the Intermountain West.

Scott Moranda
State University of New York-Cortland History Department
Email: Morandas@cortland.edu
Website: http://www.cortland.edu/history/faculty/morandas.asp
CV: html pdf
Address: History Department, SUNY-Cortland, P. O. Box 2000, Cortland, NY 13045
Phone: (607) 753-2052 (work)
Fields of Interest: Europe, Germany, Leisure, Health, Tourism, Popular Environmentalism, Landscape Architecture, Consumerism, Welfare State
Current Projects: I completed my dissertation, entitled "The Dream of a Therapeutic Regime: Nature Tourism in the German Democratic Republic, 1945-1978," in May 2005. I am currently preparing two articles with a focus on tourism and nature appreciation for anthologies on Eastern European leisure and tourism while I work on transforming my dissertation into a manuscript for publication. My next project will explore the theme of environmental and social catastrophe to understand how such events were linked in the eyes of Germans and other Europeans in the aftermath of World War Two and the Holocaust. The end goal will be to understand the cooperation of different economic and political factions in the evolution of the welfare state (and the EU) during the Cold War period.

Peter Morris
Department of Earth Science, Santa Monica College
Email: morris_pete@smc.edu
Website: http://homepage.smc.edu/morris_pete/
Address: Department of Earth Sciences, Santa Monica College, 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA, 90405
Phone: (310) 434-8654
Fields of Interest: regional geography and environmental history of the North American West, particularly the Canadian-American Great Plains and coastal Southern California; the geographies of frontiers, borderlands, and national/imperial expansion; urban development and environmental history of the Santa Monica Bay region; bicycles and bicycling as a geographic experience; and football as a global family of sports.
Current Projects: I'm working on a global historical geography of beer and the brewing industry.

Kathryn Morse
Middlebury College History Department
Email: kmorse@middlebury.edu
Website: http://community.middlebury.edu/~kmorse
Address: Dept. of History, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT,  05753
Phone: 802-443-2436 (office)
Fields of Interest: American environmental history; American West; photography and history
Current Projects:  The View from Here will be a broad survey of American Environmental history through images, intended to entice a wide audience of students, teachers, browsers, and curious viewers to explore the themes and topics of the field.  My first book, The Nature of Gold:  An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush (Seattle:  University of Washington Press, 2003), is a case study of the ways in which industrialization transformed the American relationship with nature.  In it I focus on labor, supply, and transportation as ways in which humans forged new types of connections with their physical environment.   Chapter 1, on the cultural meanings of gold in the American Presidential election of 1896, is reported by many readers to be one of the more comprehensible analyses of the gold standard debate in 19th-century America.

Sonya Newenhouse
President, Madison Environmental Group, Inc., and President, Community Car
Email: sonya@madisonenvironmental.com
Websites: www.madisonenvironmental.com; www.communitycar.com
Address: 25 N. Pinckney, Madison, WI, 53703
Phone: (608) 280-0800
Interests: Green Development, Transportation, Environmental Action Programs

Lynn Novick
Documentary Filmmaker
Bio: html pdf
Current projects: Co-Directing and Producing (with Ken Burns) The War --- a seven part, 14 hour series about American life during World War Two, focusing on the experiences of ordinary people in four towns: Waterbury, Connecticut, Mobile, Alabama, Luverne, Minnesota, and Sacramento,California.  The series will air on PBS in 2007.

Daniel Offner
Partner, Nixon Peabody LLP
Email: doffner@nixonpeabody.com
Website:www.nixonpeabody.com
Address: Gas Company Tower , 555 West Fifth St., 46th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90013
Phone: (213) 629-6094
Fields of Interest: Walking on the beach or in the mountains with my wife, daughter and dog.
Current Projects: Yale B.A., Boston University JD 1989, MBA 1990.  Admitted to practice law in MA & CA. Clients include videogame publishers, wireless content providers, toy companies, game and content development companies and talent agencies.

Anders Olson
University of Wisconsin-Madison Forest Ecology & Management Department, M.S. Student
Email: acolson1@wisc.edu
Address: 611 Wingra Street Apt.2, Madison, WI 53715
Phone: 608-265-9219 (office)
Fields of Interest: Conservation Biology, Avian Ecology
Current Projects: I am working on a field study of forest bird communities in southern Wisconsin. By resurveying a data set collected on a series of forest plots in the 1950s, I hope to gain information about how avian communities have changed during this period. I then plan to evaluate human land use and forest vegetation changes over this time period as possible causitive influences.

Chris Opsal
Educational Researcher, Institute on Community Integration, University of Minnesota;
Ph.D. student, Educational Policy and Administration, University of Minnesota
Email: opsal001@umn.edu
Website: http://ici.umn.edu/
Address: 150 Pillsbury Dr SE, Room 6, Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: (612) 624-3836
Fields of Interest: history of education, foundations of education, "scientific" research in education

Jared Orsi
Colorado State University Department of History
Email: jared.orsi@colostate.edu
Website: http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/Hist/faculty/orsi.html
Address: Department of History, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1776
Phone: (970) 491-5517
Fields of Interest: Environmental History, U.S. West, North American Borderlands Dissertation: 1999, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Published as Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles (University of California Press, 2004)
Current Project: Ecology and Empire: Zebulon Pike and the Consolidation of the American Nation-State. The narrative of this book follows Pike on his 1806-07 expedition to the Rocky Mountains and Mexico in order to explore the relationship between western ecology and state formation in the early republic. It argues that the young and fragile American nation-state was able to cement the loyalties of many peoples in its often fractious backcountry by positioning itself as the administrative broker of the profitable transfer of energy and resources between the ecosystems of the North American West and the markets of the Atlantic World.

Jan Oscherwitz
City of Seattle, Department of Finance
Email: jan.oscherwitz@seattle.gov
Address: 600 4th Avenue, Floor 6, P.O. Box 94747, Seattle, WA, 98124-4747
Phone: (206) 528-2460
Fields of Interest (keywords): public-private partnerships; sustainable infrastructure Description of
Current Projects or Interests: staffing Mayor on renovation of Pike Place Market, Seattle Center, Seattle Asian Art Museum and potential move of the Museum of History and Industry to Armory building in Lake Union Park.

Cindy Ott
American Studies Department, Saint Louis University
Email: cindyott2000@yahoo.com
Address: 3800 Lindell Blvd, Humanities 110, St. Louis, MO  63108
Phone: (406) 579-7666
Fields of Interest: environmental history, food studies, ethnic studies, material culture, American Indian history & cultures, public history
Current Projects: "The Pumpkin: Squashing Myths about Nature," revising manuscript for publication
-"Crossing Cultural Fences: The Intersecting Material World of American Indians and Euro-Americans," exhibition and article forthcoming in Western Historical Quarterly (Winter 2008)
-The Lives and Gardens of Three American Women: Finding Cultural Identity and Community Revitalization in the Natural World (beginning stages of this next project)
-Board member of Hopebuild: nonprofit devoted to creating gardens and farm markets in St Louis neighborhoods without adequate access to fresh produce

Wayne Pacelle
The Humane Society of the United States, Washington, D.C., President and CEO
E-mail: wpacelle@hsus.org
Web site: www.hsus.org
Address: The Humane Society of the United States, 2100 L St., N.W., Washington, D.C., 20037
Phone: (301) 258-3070 (work)
Current projects: Since June 2004, I have served as president and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the world’s largest animal welfare organization. My work in animal protection began when I was an undergraduate at Yale in the mid-1980’s, and I have worked in the field ever since. In the broadest sense, The HSUS explores the relationship between people and animals, celebrating the appropriate relationships (e.g., people and their companion animals or family farmers treating their animals with dignity and respect) and spotlighting the breaks in the human-animal bond (e.g., industrial factory farming, staged animal fighting, puppy mills, canned hunts, and much more) and advocating for change. We also do disaster relief for animals, operate a mobile veterinary clinic that travels to Indian reservations and provides free spay and neuter and veterinary services for animals, acquire habitat through our Wildlife Land Trust so that wild animals have a place to live, and operate several animal sanctuaries, including our Black Beauty Ranch in Texas, which is home to more than 1,300 rescued animals. Since I began working for animal protection, I’ve run about 15 successful statewide ballot initiative campaigns and helped to pass about a dozen federal laws to protect animals.

Max Page
University of Massachusetts, Department of Art, Associate Professor of History and Art
Email: mpage@art.umass.edu
Website: http://people.umass.edu/mpage
Address: Department of Art, University of Massachusetts, 151 Presidents Drive, Amherst, MA  01002
Phone: (413)545-6940
Fields of Interest: I teach and write about the design, development and politics of cities and architecture, as well as the uses of the past.
Publications: I am the author of The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940 (University of Chicago Press, 1999), which won the Spiro Kostof Award of the Society of Architectural Historians, for the best book on architecture and urbanism. I also co-edited (with Steven Conn) Building the Nation: Americans Write Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Environment (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), which won the 2005 Allen Noble Award for the best-edited book on North American material culture, given by the Pioneer America Society; and (with Randall Mason) Giving Preserving a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States (Routledge, 2003). In 2008, I published a history of how American culture has imagined New York's destruction, entitled The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction (Yale University Press, 2008)
Current projects: Priceless: Rethinking Historic Preservation in the 21st Century

Shannon Z. Petersen
Law Firm of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton / Associate
Email address: spetersen@smrh.com
Website: http://www.smrh.com
Address: 5767 Ginger Glen Trail, San Diego, CA  92130  
Phone: (858) 449-2978
Fields of Interest: environmental and legal history; business litigation
Dissertation: "The Modern Ark: A History of the Endangered Species Act" (published as Acting for Endangered Species: The Statutory Ark (University Press of Kansas, 2002)
Current Projects: Developing my general business litigation practice and working toward partnership at my law firm.

Heather Peto
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Experience Fellow 2007-08;  Johns Hopkins MPH degree candidate to graduate 2009; Medical Student, UW-Madison to graduate 2010
Email: hmpeto@gmail.com
Temporary address:  1661 La France St. Atlanta, GA, 30307
Permanent address:  N5851 County Road AI  Juneau, WI,  53039
Phone:  (608) 469-1272
Topics of interest:  medicine; environmental health; public health; International health
Currently working as a Fellow with the Centers for Disease Control in the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination (DTBE) with current activities in tuberculosis surveillance, outbreak investigations, and epidemiologic research on extrapulmonary TB.  The eventual goal is to work as a physician engaged in both clinical work and public health, with special focus on international disease and environmental health.

Cynthia Poe
Lecturer, Technical Communications Program, University of Wisconsin
Email: crpoe@wisc.edu
Address: Engineering Centers Building Room M1036A, 1550 Engineering Drive, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 265-8606
Fields of Interest: U.S. environmental and legal history, history of U.S. South, information literacy, educational technology, engineering ethics
Dissertation: "Reconstructing the Levees: The Politics of Flooding in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana" (University of Wisconsin, 2006)

Jeanine Rhemtulla
Assistant Professor, Dept. Geography & McGill School of Environment, McGill University
Email: Jeanine.rhemtulla@mcgill.ca
Address: 805 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, QC, H3A 2K6, Canada
Phone: (514) 577-5437
Fields of Interest: historical ecology, landscape ecology, sustainability science, historical legacies in ecosystems, interactions between people and landscapes through time
Dissertation: Land-use legacies in Wisconsin: Regional vegetation change and carbon dynamics (mid-1800s to 1930s to present)
Current Projects: Landscapes of inequality in the Peruvian Amazon; Legacy effects in ecosystems: understanding the long-term interactions between human land use, landscape structure, and ecosystem services in the St Lawrence watershed.

Sarah Klimenko Riedl
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Email: klimenko@history.upenn.edu
Fields of Interest: early American political culture from the colonial period through the Civil War; American historical memory; Native American history
Current Project: Ph.D. dissertation (in progress), "The Union of Our Fathers: Historical Memory in American Political Culture during the Secession Crisis of 1860-1861."  Americans constantly invoked their past as they debated the fate of the Union in 1860 and 1861.  My dissertation seeks first to characterize the historical interpretations put forth by Northerners and Southerners of various political stripes and from various regions, and second to explore how these interpretations shaped American political culture during this period.  I have pursued these dual goals by reading a politically and regionally diverse set of the nation's most prominent newspapers. 

Jackie Roberts
Director of Sustainable Technologies, Environmental Defense Fund
Email: jroberts@edf.org
Address: 1875 Connecticut Ave, Suite 600, Washington, DC, 20009
Phone: (202) 572-3311
Fields of Interest: corporate sustainability; clean technologies, especially as they relate to reducing reduce greenhouse gases; green jobs
Current Project: LessCarbonMoreJobs.org

John C. Ryan
Reporter, Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce and freelance
Email: johnryan[[at]]speakeasy.org
Address: 112 N. Bowdoin Pl., Seattle, WA 98103
Phone: (206) 632-3048
Fields of Interest: Environmental Journalism

Paul Sabin
Yale University, Department of History
Email: paul.sabin AT yale.edu
Website: www.yale.edu/history/faculty/sabin_p.html
Address: Department of History, Yale University, P.O. Box 208324, New Haven, CT 06520-8324
Telephone: (203) 436-2516
Fields of Interest: Environmental history, energy politics, American West, transnational history, public policy, legal history
Current Projects: Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900-1940 (University of California Press, 2005), history and climate politics, energy, overseas resource extraction

Barbara D. Savage
University of Pennsylvania, Professor of History
Email: bdsavage@sas.upenn.edu
Website: http://www.history.upenn.edu/faculty/savage.htm
Address: History Department, University of Pennsylvania, 208 College Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: (215)898-9630
Fields of Interest: 20th-century African American political, intellectual, and religious history
Current Projects: I've recently published my second book: Your Spirits Walk Beside Us: The Politics of Black Religion (Harvard University Press, 2008).

Alexander Shashko
University of Michigan History Department
University of Wisconsin Department of Afro-American Studies Email:
Email: ashashko@umich.edu
Fields of Interest: 20th-century U.S. political and cultural history, African-American history, and Wisconsin history.
Current Project: “Grassroots Liberalism: The Promise and Perils of Political Activism in Postwar Wisconsin”

David Simon
Director, New Mexico State Parks Division
Email: dave.simon@state.nm.us (work); anndaves@aol.com (home)
Website:  www.nmparks.com
Address: New Mexico State Parks, P.O. Box 1147, Santa Fe, NM  87504 (work); 1019 Roadrunner Lane N.W., Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, NM  87107 (home)
Phone: 505-476-3357 (work); 505-298-6507 (home)
Fields of Interest: parks and public lands, conservation, history of conservation

Thompson Smith
Consultant, Salish-Pend d'Oreille Culture Committee, directing Tribal History and Ethnogeography Projects, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation
Email: trs@blackfoot.net or thompsons@cskt.org
Addresses: 53950 Marsh Creek Road, Charlo, MT 59824 (home) or Salish-Pend d'Oreille Culture Committee, PO Box 550, St, Ignatius, MT 59865 (office)
Phone: (406)644-2547 (home) or (406)745-4572 (work)
Fields of Interest: Environmental history; western US history; history of Indian-white relations; cultural history/ethnohistory; geography.
Current Projects: The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition, by the Salish-Pend d'Oreille Culture Committee (University of Nebraska Press, 2005). 40 historical essays in Fire on the Land, an interactive DVD on native use of fire (University of Nebraska Press, 2007). Other forthcoming books through the Salish-Pend d'Oreille Culture Committee include The Swan Massacre: A Story of the Pend d'Oreille People (forthcoming, University of Nebraska Press, estimated publication date spring 2009); Names Upon the Land -- Skwskwstulexws: A Geography of the Salish and Pend d'Oreille People (estimated publication date 2010); and Voices of the Elders: A Tribal History of the Salish and Pend d'Oreille People, (estimated publication date 2011).

Laura Spark
Senior Planner, Cambridge Housing Authority
Principal, HCE (Housing Community Environment) Consulting
Email: carriggspark@aol.com
Address: 20 Bardwell Street Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Phone: (617) 522-1319
Fields of Interest: affordable housing, supportive housing, homelessness, community action, sustainable development/alternative
energy, environmental health/precautionary principle, schoolyard greening, nonprofit management
Current Projects: Professional: Green affordable housing for very low income families in Cambridge; conversion of historic police station into community building for housing nonprofits; program development and grant writing for anti-poverty and housing nonprofits
Community work: Advocacy for U.S. chemical policy reform/precautionary principle, creation of outdoor classroom and natural play yard for
local public school.

Mark Stemen
California State University, Chico Department of Geography
Email: mstemen@csuchico.edu
Website: http://wizard.csuchico.edu/faculty/mstemen.html

Peter Thorsheim
University of North Carolina at Charlotte Department of History
Email: pthorshe@uncc.edu
Website: www.history.uncc.edu/thorsheim.htm
Address: Department of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223
Phone: (704)687-4874
Fields of Interest: Modern Britain, environmental history, and the history of science, technology, and medicine
Current Projects: My first book, Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800 (Ohio University Press, 2006), explores changes in ideas about pollution, technology, and the environment in the “first industrial nation.” I am currently writing a book on the environmental history of Britain during the Second World War.

Caley Vickerman
Actor/Educator
Email: clvicker@gmx.net
Website: www.caleyvickerman.com
Address: 234 2nd St. #2, Jersey City, NJ 07302
Phone: (917) 715-5976
Fields of Interest: At the intersection of Theater (improvisational, interactive and engaging) and Education (progressive, active, empowering).
Current Projects: Working with a non-profit in NYC, City at Peace (www.cpnational.org), which brings together diverse groups of teenagers (over 100) to create a full-length musical theater production based on their life-stories. They then organize Community Action Projects, informing the community about issues that are important to them and offering solutions to these issues. I am preparing to start these programs in other communities: Berlin, Germany and Minneapolis, MN.

Ann Vileisis
Author
Email: avileisis@yahoo.com
Website: www.kitchenliteracy.com
CV: (available on my website)
Address: P.O. Box 1286, Port Orford, OR 97465
Phone: (541) 332-0261
Fields of Interest: cultural history, natural history, food history, environment, writing, rivers, sustainable agriculture, grassroots activism
Books: My recent book, Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes From and Why We Need to Get it Back (Island Press, 2007) [finalist for the Connecticut Book Award], explores Americans’ changing historic awareness of their foods’ provenance including the recent rise of interest in local foods. My first book, Discovering the Unknown Landscape: A History of America’s Wetlands (Island Press, 1997) [Winner of the American Historical Association’s Herbert Feis Award and the American Society of Environmental History’s George Perkins Marsh Prize], chronicles how American cultural attitudes towards swamps and marshes influenced the policies and laws that govern these terrains.
Current Projects: I am currently working on a book about seashells and am engaged with local conservation activism as president of the Kalmiopsis Audubon Society chapter on the South Coast of Oregon.

Peter Wegner
Artist
Email: pw.pw.pw.pw@gmail.com
Website: http://peterwegner.com/
Address: 589 Third Street, Brooklyn NY 11215 (permanent)
2842 Hillegass Avenue, Berkeley CA 94705 (thru August 06)
Fields of Interest: Color, language, systems, the grid, vernacular architecture and type, intellectual property. Painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, poetry.
Current Projects: My daily practice is metaphor, not history. But isn't history also metaphor? And isn't metaphor -- isn't everything -- historical? I work at the scale of a book or a building, with paint or paper or whatever's at hand. The name of a recent exhibition at The Bohen Foundation in New York gets at the heart of my enterprise, set in caps to underscore the futility of the quest: PETER WEGNER: COMPLETE & FINAL COLOR THEORY SUPERSEDING ALL PREVIOUS THEORIES & PRE-EMPTING ALL FUTURE THEORIES WITH ADD'L THOUGHTS ON THE POETRY OF COMMERCE, THE CRUELTY OF SYSTEMS & THE BANALITY OF THE GRID, ACCOMPANIED BY A FOOTNOTE RE: ARCHITECTURE.

Florence Williams
Freelance journalist, Scripps Fellow, University of Colorado
Email: willflo@earthlink.net
Website: www.florencewilliams.com
Phone: (303) 440-2491
Fields of Interest: I'm currently studying the relationship between toxic chemicals and human health.
Current Projects: I'm working on a book about breast cancer. I'm also writing environmental articles and book reviews for the New York Times, Outside Magazine, High Country News, OnEarth and other publications.

Michael Willrich
Brandeis University History Department
Email: willrich@brandeis.edu
Address: History Department, Mailstop 036, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110
Phone: (781) 736-2292
Fields of Interest: U.S. Social and Legal History, Urban History, Progressive Era
Book: City of Courts: Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Current Project: A book on smallpox, public health, and the politics of vaccination in the Progressive Era, to be published by the Penguin Press, New York.

Laura L. Wilson
Town Clerk-Treasurer, Town of Guildhall and Law Clerk, Sleigh & Williams, St Johnsbury, VT
Email: laura@sleighandwilliams.com or ellewilson@wildblue.net
Blog: ellewilson.wordpress.com
Address: 7240 Route 102, Guildhall, VT, 05905
Interests: constitutional, civil rights, and municipal law; gardening, hiking and long distance running; politics; a news junkie; film and filmmaking
Currently enrolled In Vermont's LOS program.

Roger Wynne
Assistant City Attorney, Land Use Section City of Seattle
Email: roger.wynne@seattle.gov
Address: City of Seattle City Attorney’s Office P.O. Box 94769 Seattle, WA 98124-4769
Phone: 206-233-2177 (work)
Current Projects: I advise City officials and staff on land use issues (mostly in the contexts of enacting new development regulations and applying those regulations to proposed land use projects) and defend City land use decisions when they are challenged before administrative tribunals and in court.

Michael J. Yochim
National Park Service, Yellowstone National Park
Email: mike_yochim@nps.gov
Address: National Park Service, P.O. Box 168, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190
Phone: (307) 344-2024 (office)
Topics of Interest: environmental history; people and environment; national park history, policy, and management; American West; recreation; environmental politics.
Current Projects: Dissertation: "Compromising Yellowstone: the Interest Group-National Park Service Relationship in Modern Policy-making." Through four Yellowstone case studies, I examined the influence that environmentalists, business advocates, recreation advocates, and scientists have on agency policy. Such groups commonly manifest core American values, with the exact nature of their relationship depending on the context of the given park and policy issue. Currently working on publishing Snowmobiling in Wonderland, a history of winter visitation and snowmobiling in Yellowstone, based in part on this dissertation.

David Yoo
Department of History, Claremont McKenna College
Email: david.yoo@cmc.edu
Address: Department of History, Claremont-McKenna College, 850 Columbia Avenue, Claremont, California  91711
Phone: (909)607-2828 (office)
Topics of Interest: Asian-American history; history of the American West; American religious history.
Current Projects: A book on religion and politics in Korean American history in Hawaii and California.

Daniel Zarin
University of Florida School of Forest Resources & Conservation
Professor of Tropical Forestry; Director, Working Forests in the Tropics Program;
Co-Director, Amazon Conservation Leadership Initiative
Email: zarin@ufl.edu
Website: http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/faculty/zarin/
Address: School of Forest Resources & Conservation, University of Florida, PO Box 110760 (postal mail delivery); Building 107 Mowry Road (non-postal shipping); Gainesville, FL 32611-0760
Phone: (352)846-1247
Topics of Interest: tropical conservation, tropical forest ecology, ecosystem science
Current Projects: (1) Research in support of forest management objectives in the Brazilian Amazon; (2) Building Leadership Capacity for Forest Conservation in the Andes-Amazon Region; (3) Working Forests in the tropics: An Integrated Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program; (4) Ecosystem analyses of forest regrowth in the Brazilian Amazon; (5) Tropical forests and climate change.

Shelley Zimmer
Environmental Marketing Manager, Hewlett-Packard
Email: Shelley.zimmer@hp.com
Website: www.hp.com/go/environment
Address: Hewlett-Packard, 11311 Chinden Blvd., MS 403, Boise, ID, 83714
Phone: (208) 396-3675
Topics of interest: consumers and environment, environmental marketing, sustainability, environmental history, American West
Current Projects and Interests: consumer market research, environmental business strategy, environmental labeling, online environmental information

Back to top