Political Legacies of the American West
Darren Dochuk, Lilly Fellow in History, Valparaiso University (Ph.D. candidate, Notre Dame University, expected 2005). "'Praying for a Wicked City': Congregation, Community, and the Suburbanization of Fundamentalism," Religion and American Culture, 13 (Summer 2003), 167–203.
Ignacio Garcia, Professor of Latino/a History, Brigham Young University (Ph.D. History, University of Arizona, 1995). Hector P. Garcia: In Relentless Pursuit of Justice. Hispanic Civil Rights Series. Houston: Arté Público Press, 2003. Viva Kennedy: Mexican Americans in Search of Camelot. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2000.
Robert Alan Goldberg, Professor of American History, University of Utah (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1977). Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. Barry Goldwater. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
John Herron, Assistant Professor of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City (Ph.D., History, University of New Mexico, 2001). Human/Nature: Biology, Culture, and Environmental History. Introduced and co-edited with Andrew Kirk. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press: 1999. “Where There is Smoke,” Forests Under Fire: A Century of Ecosystem Mismanagement in the Southwest. Christopher Huggard & Arthur Gomez, eds. Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 2001.
R. Douglas Hurt, Professor of History, Purdue University (Ph.D., Kansas State University, 1975). Problems of Plenty: The American Farmer in the Twentieth Century. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002. American Agriculture: A Brief History; and The Rural West Since World War II. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2002.
Andrew G. Kirk, Assistant Professor of History, University of Nevada-Las Vegas (Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 1998). Collecting Nature: The Conservation Library and the American Environmental Movement. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2001. Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s. New York: Routledge, 2001.
Karen Merrill, Associate Professor of History, Williams College (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1994). Public Lands and Political Meaning: Ranchers, the Government, and the Property between Them. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. “The New Deal’s West,” Blackwell Companion to the History of the American West. William Deverell, ed. New York: Blackwell Publishers, 2004.
Jeff Roche, Assistant Professor of History, Wooster College (Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 2001). The Conservative Sixties. Co-edited with David Farber. New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 2003. Restructured Resistance: The Sibley Commission and the Politics of Desegregation in Georgia. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998.
Amy Scott, University of New Mexico (Ph.D. Candidate, University of New Mexico). City Dreams, City Scenes: Utopian Visions, Urban Design, and City Life in the Twentieth-Century American West. Co-edited with Judy Morley. Under contract, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. “The Politics of Community in the Albuquerque Model Cities Program,” The New Mexico Historical Review. Forthcoming, Spring 2005.
Michael Steiner, Professor of American Studies, California State University–Fullerton (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1978). Many Wests: Place, Culture, & Regional Identity Co-edited with David M. Wrobel Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1997. Region and Regionalism in the United States: A Sourcebook for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Co-authored with Clarence Mondale. New York: Garland Publishers, 1988.
Scott Tang, Assistant Professor of American Studies, California State University–Fullerton (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2002) “Pushing at the Golden Gate: Race Relations and Racial Politics in San Francisco, 1940-1955,” dissertation manuscript.
David M. Wrobel, Associate Professor of History, University of Nevada-Las Vegas (Ph.D., Ohio University, 1991). Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory, and the Creation of the American West. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. The End of American Exceptionalism: Frontier Anxiety from the Old West to the New Deal. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993.
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