Curriculum Vitae

Education

• B.S. Utah State University, 1987.
• M.A. Utah State University, 1992.
• Ph.D. University of Oregon, 1995

• United States
• American West
• Environmental History

• Instructor, University of Oregon, 1991-93 (summers).
• Instructor, Southern Oregon State College, 1993-94, 1994-95.
• Assistant Professor, Southern Oregon University, 1995 - 1999.
• Associate Professor, Southern Oregon University, 1999 - present.

• Gamma Theta Upsilon (Geography Honor Society). 1986.
• Phi Alpha Theta (History Honor Society). 1987.
• President, Zeta Pi chapter of Gamma Theta Upsilon. 1986-1988.
• Teaching Assistantship, Utah State University. 1987-1988.
• Graduate Teaching Fellowship, University of Oregon. 1988-1991.
• Graduate School Research Scholarship, University of Oregon. 1993

• American Historical Society
• Organization of American Historians.
• Western History Association
• Oral History Association

• "A Fig off My Own Fig Tree: Utah Migration in the Twentieth Century, 1890-1955" (Masters thesis, Utah State University, 1989).
• "Mountains of Imagination: Place and Perception in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Sierra Nevada" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oregon, 1995).

• Book: Todd F. Carney et al, CliffsAP World History(Wiley, 2006).
• Encyclopedia article: "Canals" in The Encyclopedia of the Age of the Industrial Revolution (forthcoming from Greenwood Press).
• Encyclopedia article: "Robber Barons" in The Encyclopedia of the Age of the Industrial Revolution (forthcoming from Greenwood Press).
• Encyclopedia article: "Greenback" in The Encyclopedia of the Age of the Industrial Revolution (forthcoming from Greenwood Press).
• Encyclopedia article: "Grange" in The Encyclopedia of the Age of the Industrial Revolution (forthcoming from Greenwood Press).
• Encyclopedia article: "Ansel Adams" in Encyclopedia of American Environmental History (forthcoming from Facts on File, Inc.).
• Encyclopedia article: "Columbian Exchange" in Encyclopedia of American Environmental History (forthcoming from Facts on File, Inc.).
• Encyclopedia article: "The Frontier" in Encyclopedia of American Environmental History (forthcoming from Facts on File, Inc.).
• Encyclopedia article: "Irrigation" in Encyclopedia of American Environmental History (forthcoming from Facts on File, Inc.).
• Encyclopedia article: "Suburbanization" in Encyclopedia of American Environmental History (forthcoming from Facts on File, Inc.).
• Biographical article: "Stewart Holbrook" in American National Biography (American Council of Learned Societies and Oxford University Press, 1998).
• Biographical article: "William Henry Thomes"in American National Biography (American Council of Learned Societies and Oxford University Press, 1998).
• Review: Cities of Light and Heat: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America by Mark H. Rose(Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995). Western Historical Quarterly 27 (Autumn 1996): 401.
• Review: The Pacific Raincoast: Environment and Culture in an American Eden, 1778-1900 by Robert Bunting (University of Kansas Press, 1996). Agricultural History 72 (Winter 1998): 106-107.
• Review: Last Bonanza Kings: The Bourns of San Francisco by Ferol Egan (University of Nevada Press, 1998). Western Historical Quarterly (Summer 2000).
• Review: Shaping the Sierra: Nature, Culture, and Conflict in the Changing West, by Timothy P. Duane (University of California Press, 1999). Western Historical Quarterly 33 (Summer 2002): 216-217.

• "Lebensraum und Geopolitik: Germany, National Socialism and Geography." Utah Geographical Society Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, November 1986.
• "Post-War Out-Migration from Utah: A Classic Push-Pull Scenario." Utah Geographical Society Annual Meeting, Provo, Utah, November 1987.
• "Comparing Western Irrigation Institutions: A Scheme for Eliminating Ideological Bias in Historical Studies." Western Social Science Association Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, April 1988.
• "California as Empire: Nature, Power, and Place in George R. Stewart's Storm and Fire." California American Studies Association Annual Meeting, May, 1995. Organized the session in which this paper was read.

• "Mountains of Imagination: Perception and Place in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Northern Sierra Nevada Mountains." Book manuscript under consideration by University of Oklahoma Press.
• "The Transmississippi Commercial Congress and the Federal Development of the Ameircan West." Article manuscript.
• "Cry California: Postwar Planning in the Golden State." Article manuscript.
• Book project: Intensive development of the American West, 1862-1990. Now gathering notes and sources.

• African American History
• American West before 1865
• American West after 1865
• California History
• Colloquium on American Environmental History
• Colonial America
• Native American History
• Oral History Methods
• Revolution and Early Republic
• Seminar on United States History
• Senior Seminar
• Symbol and Myth of the American West
• Twentieth Century United States (two term course)
• United States History (two term survey)
• World Environmental History
• Writing and Methods in History

• Technical writer, Space Dynamics Lab/Utah State University, 1986-1988.
• Evaluator, Oregon Council for the Humanities/National Endowment for the Humanities program "Columbus and After: Rethinking the Legacy," 1992.
• Member, Board of Editors, A Turbulent Voyage: Readings in African American Studies (Collegiate Press). 1998.

• Dr. Richard M. Brown, Department of History, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403.
• Dr. Robert Harrison, Chair, Department of History, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR 97520.
• Dr. Carol O'Connor, Department of History, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84323.
• Dr. David Hertzel, Department of Social Science, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, OK.