| EMPLOYMENT |
University of Nevada-Las Vegas, 1999 to present |
Professor |
Public History Program Director |
| Syracuse University, 1998-1999 |
Visiting Assistant Professor, Environmental and Western History |
| EDUCATION |
Ph.D. University of New Mexico, May 1998 |
| M.A. University of Colorado Denver, 1992 |
| B.A. University of Colorado Denver, 1989 |
PUBLICATIONS |
| Books: |
| Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, Culture/America Series, 2007). |
Collecting Nature: The American Environmental Movement and the Conservation Library.
Lawrence: The University Press of Kansas, 2001. |
Human/Nature: Biology, Culture, and Environmental History, with John Herron.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. |
Books in Progress: |
| American Horizons, with Michael Schaller, et al. (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2010). |
The Art of Testing: Art, Craft and the Culture of Secrecy at the Nevada Test Site. With, Mary Palevsky and Robert Futrell (in progress).
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| Select Articles & Book Chapters: |
| “From Wilderness Prophets to Tool Freaks: Post WW II Environmentalism” in, The Blackwell Companion to American
Environmental History (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming Fall 2009). |
| “New Games, Nomatics and Urban Environmentalism,” in Char Miller, ed., Urban Environmentalism (Forthcoming, University of Nevada Press, 2009). |
“Free Minds and Free Markets: Counterculture Libertarianism, ‘Natural Capitalism’ and an Alternative Vision of Western Political Authenticity.” Jeff Roach, ed., The Political Culture of the New West. (University Press of Kansas, 2008). |
| “The New Alchemy: Technology, Consumerism and Environmental Advocacy” The Columbia History of Post WWII America. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007). |
| “When Nature Becomes Culture: The National Register and Yosemite’s Camp 4” with Charles Palmer, Western Historical Quarterly 37:4 (Winter 2006):496-506. |
“Machines of Loving Grace: Appropriate Technology, Environment, and the Counterculture.”
In, Michael Doyle and Peter Braunstein, eds., Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s (New York: Routledge, 2002): 353-378. |
Appropriating Technology: Alternative Technology, The Whole Earth Catalog and
Counterculture Environmental Politics.” Environmental History 7:4, (July 2001). |
“Goats and Rivers—Together Again for the First Time: Shifting Imperatives in Southwestern
Environments and Culture,” The New Mexico Historical Review 73 (January 1998). |
Select Book Reviews: |
| Sharon E. Kingsland, The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890-2000 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005). The American Historical Review |
| Jon T. Coleman, Vicious: Wolves and Men in America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004). Montana Susan Kollin, Nature’s State: Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001). The Journal of American History |
Jared Orsi, Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004). The Journal of San Diego History |
| Paul Schullery & Lee Whittlesey, Myth and History in the Creation of Yellowstone National Park (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002). New Mexico Historical Review |
Paul S. Sutter, Driven Wild: How the Fight Against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002). Pacific Historical Review |
Charles E. Kay & Randy T. Simmons, Wilderness and Political Ecology (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2002). New Mexico Historical Review |
| David F. Kyvig & Myron A. Marty, Nearby History: Exploring the Past Around You (Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2000. Carrol Kammen & Norma Prendergast, eds. Encyclopedia of Local History (Walnut Creek, CA: Altimira Press, 2000). Nevada Historical Society Quarterly |
James M. Cahalan, Edward Abby: A Life (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001). Montana |
Timothy Rawson, Changing Tracks: Predators and Politics in Mt. McKinley National Park (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2001). Pacific Historical Review |
| James W. Loewen, Lies Across America (New York: The New Press, 1999) & Kathleen Ann Cordes, America’s National Historic Trails (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999). Nevada Historical Society Quarterly |
Jane Candia Coleman, Shadows In My Hands, (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1993) and H. Jackson Clark, The Owl In Monument Canyon (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1993). Journal of the West |
| Thomas J. Noel, Paul F. Mahoney, and Richard E. Stevens, Historical Atlas of Colorado (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994). New Mexico Historical Review |
Marybeth Lorbiecki, Aldo Leopold: A Fierce Green Fire (Helena, MT: Falcon Publishing Co., 1996). New Mexico Historical Review |
Jan DeBlieu, Wind: How the Flow of Air Has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1998) Journal of the West |
Robert Engberg and Donald Wesling, eds., John Muir: To Yosemite and Beyond (Salt Lake: University of Utah Press, 1999). New Mexico Historical Review |
SELECT PRESENTATIONS : |
| “Entrepreneurialism in Academic Research: History Departments and Sponsored Projects in the Twenty-First Century,” American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch, Pasadena, CA, August, 2008. |
| “The Image of East-Central Europe in American History Textbooks,” Recovering Forgotten History Symposium, Institute of Civic Space and Public Policy, Warsaw, Poland, June, 2007. |
“Thing-Makers, Tool Freaks, and Prototypers: The Whole Earth Catalog and the Roots of Sustainability,” University of California Santa Barbara, May, 2007. |
| “The Hip-Right and Alternative Environmentalism,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, March, 2007. |
“The Nevada Test Site: Landscape, Nature and Radioactivity,” American Society for Environmental History, Baton Rouge, 2007. |
| “Shelter and Land Use: Whole Earth Visions of Alternative Architecture and Technology,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, October, 2006. |
| “On Point: Crafting an Alternative to Environmentalism at the Whole Earth,” The Whole Earth—Parts Thereof, University of California Davis Symposium, May 8, 2006. |
| “Convergence: Hal Rothman’s Work to Unite Academic Research and Public History Practice,” American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch Annual Meeting, Stanford, CA, 2006. |
| “Ecological Design and Historic Preservation,” The Future of Nevada’s Past Symposium, Ely, 2006. |
| “Transnational Public History: The Politics of Memory in Germany and the U.S.,” Leuphana Univeritat Luneburg, Germany, 2005. |
| “Federal Partnerships and Convergence in Public History” Public History in the West, University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Studies, 2005. |
“Ecotopia and Political Realism: Green Consumption and Counterculture Libertarianism” Political Legacies of the American West, SMU Clements Institute, Dallas, TX, 2005. |
“Teaching Public History to Undergraduates” ASEH/NCPH, Victoria B.C., 2004. |
| “Memory, Heritage and History” American History Teachers Institute, Reno, NV, July 2003 . |
| “Using the CESU Network for Cultural Resource Management” CESU National Network Meeting, Washington, D.C., June 2003. |
| “An Environmental Historian’s View of Archives” Western History Association, Colorado Springs, CO, October 2002 . |
| “The Whole Earth Catalog: Alternative Technology and Green Consumption” American Society for Environmental History, Denver, CO, 2002 . |
“The Conservation Library” American Society for Environmental History, Denver, CO, 2002. |
| “Appropriate Technology, Environment, and the Counterculture,” Western History Association, Sacramento, CA, October 1998. |
| “Human Nature in the Vault: The Landscape and Rhetoric of Antimodernism,” New Mexico Environmental Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, April 1996. |
“Environmentalists and Wilderness in Colorado, 1964-1994,” American Society for Environmental History, Las Vegas, NV, March 1995. |
| “Lawyers, Guns, and Money: The Politics of Western Wilderness Preservation,” Western Social Sciences Association, Albuquerque, NM, April 1994. |
SELECT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, GRANTS, & PUBLIC HISTORY: |
| Grants: |
Principal Investigator or Co-Principal on over $1.8 million grants & sponsored projects between 1999-2008. |
| Co-Principal Investigator, Nevada Test Site Oral History Project, 2003-2007 funding from Department of Energy & Department of Education |
| Principal Investigator, Yosemite National Park Administrative History, 2004-2008 |
| Principal Investigator, Juan Batista De Anza National Historic Trail Nomination, 2008-2010 |
| Principal Investigator, Mojave Road National Register Nomination, 2008-2009 |
| Principal Investigator, Saving America’s Treasures Grant, Walking Box Ranch Project, 2004-2007 |
| Principal Investigator, Point Reyes National Seashore Olema Valley NR Nomination Project, 2004-2005 |
| Principal Investigator, Yosemite National Park Historic Structures Review, 2002-2005 |
| Co-Director, Autry National Center Fellowship, 2004-2008 ($30,000 annual graduate fellowship in museum studies) |
Founding Director and board member, Preserve Nevada, 2000-present (Funding from the National Trust For Historic Preservation, The National Historic Preservation Fund and the NV SHPO and other agencies and foundations) |
| Project Director, Voices From the Past: the Las Vegas Springs Preserve Oral History Program, 2002-2005 |
| RESEARCH INTERESTS: |
| Public History and Historic Preservation |
| Environmental History |
| American Western History |
| COURSES TAUGHT: |
| HIST. 102: United States History from 1865 to Present |
| HIST 426-626: American West in Film |
| HIST 441: American Environmental History |
| HIST 698: Historic Preservation |
