Cities and Nature in the American West

Contributors

[ 263 ] K aT h l e e n a . B r o s n a n is an associate professor of history at the University of Houston and the author of Uniting Mountain and Plain: Urbanization, Law and Environmental Change along the Front Range (2002). c r a i G e . c o lT e n is the Carl O. Sauer Professor of Geography at Louisiana State University. He is the author of An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature (2005) and Perilous Place, Powerful Storms: Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana (2009). l a r Y M . d i l s a V e r is professor of historical geography at the University of South Alabama. He has authored or edited five books and many articles on the National Park System and various topics on the western United States. s a r a h s . e l K i n d is an associate professor teaching environmental, political, and urban history at San Diego State University. Her first book, Bay Cities and Water Politics (1998), explored regional public works and political reform in Boston, Massachusetts, and Oakland, California, and won the Abel Wolman Award in 1999. a r i K e l M a n teaches history at the University of California, Davis, and is author of A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans. a n d r e w G . K i r K is professor of environmental and western history and director of the Public History Program at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. His most recent book is Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism (2007). M aT T h e w K l i n G l e is associate professor of history and environmental studies at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. He is the author of Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle (2007), along with numerous articles and essays. p h o e B e s . K r o p p Y o u n G is an assistant professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she teaches and writes about the cultural and environmental history of the modern United States and the American West. She is the author of California Vieja: Culture and Memory in a Modern American Place (2006). C O N T R I B U T O R S [ 264 ] c o n T r i B u T o r s w i l l i a M l . l a n G is professor of history at Portland State University, where he teaches environmental and public history courses. Lang is author or editor of six books on Northwest history, including Great River of the West: Essays on the Columbia River (1999) and Two Centuries of Lewis & Clark (2004). M a r T i n V. M e l o s i is distinguished university professor of history and director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston. His research interests include urban environmental history, energy history, and public history. If you have room you can add: Melosi is author or editor of 16 books and more than 70 articles and book chapters. c h a r M i l l e r is director of the environmental analysis program and W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis at Pomona College; he is author of Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism and editor of the companion volumes Water in the 21st-Century West and River Basins of the American West. w i l l i a M p h i l p o T T is an assistant professor of history at the University of Denver , specializing in environmental, suburban, and western history. He is the author of The Lessons of Leadville; or, Why the Western Federation of Miners Turned Left and of the forthcoming Vacation Land, a study of tourism after 1945 and its influence on popular environmental culture and politics. M a r G u e r i T e s . s h a f f e r is the director of American studies and an associate professor of American studies and history at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Her work focuses on popular environmentalism and public culture. She is the author of See America First: Tourism and National Identity and the editor of Public Culture: Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the United States. J o e l a . Ta r...