SCOTT MORANDA
Assistant Professor
Department of History,
SUNY-Cortland
(607) 753-2052
Email: Morandas@cortland.edu
EDUCATION:
Ph. D., University of
Wisconsin-Madison, May 2005
Dissertation Title: “The Dream of a Therapeutic Regime: Nature Tourism
in the German Democratic Republic, 1945-1978”
Major Fields:
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European Social and
Cultural History since 1815
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·
French History from 1600
Minor: Landscape and Environment (Distributive: Geography
of Nationalism, Geography – Landscape and Identity, American Environmental
History, History of Ecology, Social Forestry)
Adviser: Prof. Rudy Koshar, DAAD Professor of German and European
Studies
Additional Committee Members: Laird Boswell, Nancy Langston, Alison Frank, and
William Cronon
M.A.,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, December 2000
M.A. Thesis Title:
“Step-by-Step: The Exploration of Nature by Wandervögel Hikers, 1890-1918”
Adviser:
Rudy Koshar; Committee Members: Laird Boswell, Lynn Nyhart
B.A.,
Major: History, Graduated with Distinction, magna cum
laude
Assistant Professor, Department of History,
SUNY-Cortland
2005-2006: Modern
Lecturer, Department of History,
UW-Madison,
Fall 2000: “Eighteenth-Century
Fall 2002: “History
of
Spring 2003: “
Spring 2004: “
Fall 2004: “European Social History,
1914-Present,” Professor Rudy Koshar
Taught four weekly discussion sections (75
students total) for each course, designed discussion activities, and graded
papers and exams.
I provided a guest lecture in each course.
“Camping Leisure in East
Germany: Making ‘Rough’ Nature More Comfortable,” Leisure and Luxury in
Socialist Europe, eds. David Crowley and Susan E. Reid, peer-reviewed,
forthcoming, Indiana University Press
George L. Mosse Teaching Fellowship in European History, UW-Madison, Spring 2005
Donald Worster Travel Grant, American Society for Environmental History, Spring 2005
DAAD-Center for German and European Studies Fellowship, UW-Madison, Fall 2003
J. William Fulbright Grant for Research Abroad,
Berlin, Germany, 2001-2002
Vilas
Travel Grant,
German Historical Institute Summer Archive Seminar Award, Summer 2001
C. K. Adams History Fellowship, History Department,
UW-Madison, Spring 2001
Travel Grant, Center for German and European Studies, UW-Madison, Summer 2000
DAAD-Center for German and European Studies Fellowship, UW-Madison, Fall 1999
“Nurturing
Anti-Capitalist Citizens: East German Landscape Planning, 1949-1970.” To
be presented at the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH),
“Consulting
Doktor Wald: Outdoor Recreation and Public Health in 1960's
“Greifenbach
Reservoir: Toward a Popular Environmentalism in the German Democratic
Republic?” German Historical Institute’s Young Scholars Forum, Environment,
Culture, Politics: Transatlantic
Perspectives,
“Fresh Air, ‘Wild’
Campsites, and a Plague of Bungalows: Nature Tourism under the East German
Dictatorship.” American Society for Environmental History (ASEH),
Victoria, British Columbia, April 2004.
“Wanderlust Behind the Wall: Popular Desires for Health and Mobility and State Attempts to Control Hiking and Camping in East Germany.” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Toronto, Ontario, November 2003. Panel members included Lewis Siegelbaum (Michigan State University), Diane P. Koenker (University of Illinois), and Anne E. Gorsuch (University of British Columbia).
“Bringing the History of Environment and Environmental Thought in East Germany Out From Under the Shadow of Ecological Catastrophe.” Midwest German History Workshop, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, October 2003.
“Playing the Soviet Card:
Nature Tourism in-between Tradition, Soviet Influence, and the New Economic
System.” Fifth Annual German Studies
Graduate Student Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, April 2003
“The Story of German Settlement in the Forests and Prairies of Wisconsin.” German Experience with the Land in Wisconsin Conference, Max Kade Institute, Madison, Wisconsin, September 2000
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
“German Experience with the Land”: Conducted
archival research for this trans-Atlantic study of German migration from the
Rhineland to Wisconsin in the nineteenth century. The project focused on land use, farming
practices and cultural constructions of nature.
American Historical Association
American Society for Environmental History
German
French (reading only)
Prof. Rudy Koshar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department
of History, 3211 Humanities Building, 455 N. Park Street, Madison, WI, 53706,
USA
Telephone: 608-265-2578; Departmental Fax:
608-263-5302; Email: rjkoshar@wisc.edu
Prof. Laird Boswell, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, Department of History, 3211 Humanities Building, 455 N. Park
Street, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
Telephone: 608-263-1805; Departmental Fax:
608-263-5302; Email: lboswell@wisc.edu
Prof. Suzanne Desan, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Department of History, 3211 Humanities Building, 455 N. Park Street, Madison,
WI, 53706, USA
Telephone: 608-262-8694; Departmental Fax:
608-263-5302; Email: smdesan@wisc.edu
Assistant Prof. Alison Frank, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of History, 3211 Humanities Building, 455 N. Park Street, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
Telephone: 608-
263-1823;
Departmental Fax: 608-263-5302;
Email: alisonfrank@wisc.edu