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 | Anderson, Chad
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 | Arnfeld, Rebecca
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 | Averbeck, Robin
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 | Basile, Marie
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 | Benson, Padraic
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 | Brueck, Greg
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 | Chaney, Rachel
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 | Chester, Robert
| Interests Environmental, Native American, and US West My study examines the many and far-reaching environmental impacts of the Comstock Lode(the largest silver strike in US history) from its beginning in 1859 and the changes it set in motion that transformed an entire region (Lake Tahoe and Pyramid Lake, the Eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, and the Carson and Truckee Rivers. From mining to logging, fishing, Indian removal, farming, dam construction, and mercury contamination, the industrial legacies of the Comstock present Gilded Age economic policies and their consequences in sharp relief. The hard-rock deep-shaft mining that occurred on the Comstock, the capital needed to fund such an enterprise, and the devastation of forests and streams that accompanied this spectacular event foreshadowed the economic development and ecological transformation of other mining regions throughout the American West for the remainder of the nineteenth century. In addition, the dispossession and marginalization of native groups such as the Paiute and Washoe vividly demonstrates, as did the California Gold Rush, the relationship between mining booms, deteriorating relations between natives and newcomers, and, ultimately, the violence encouraged by western expansion and exacerbated by capitalist greed. | ||||||
 | Clune, Lori
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 | Costanzo, Adam
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 | Covart, Elizabeth
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 | Fischer, John Ryan
| Interests:
US West, Environmental, Race, Imperialism Awards: National Science Foundation IGERT in Biological Invasions, Long-Term Fellowship 2002-2004 UC Davis Humanities Institute, President's Pre-doctoral Fellowship 2001-2005 | ||||||
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 | Gallo, Marcus
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 | Green, Tobias
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 | Hickman, David
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 | Hohn, Peter
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 | Hopkins, Kelly
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 | Jarrett, George
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 | Kehew, Julia
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 | Kerr, Andrew
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 | King, Andrea
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 | Lacson, Albert
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 | McCabe, Shelley
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 | McGowan, James
| Recent Awards:
AHA Littleton-Griswold Research Grant for Research in U.S. Legal History. 2004 OAH Merrill Travel Grant in Twentieth-Century American Political History. 2004 Recent Conference Paper: “Too Brave to Fight: Reconsidering Conscientious Objection During World War I.” Colloquium Session on Conscientious Objection, The American Experiment: Religious Freedom Conference, University of Portland, April 13, 2007. Recent Publications “Draft, military" and "Thomas, Norman," in The Encyclopedia of American Counterculture, ed. Gina Misiroglu. M.E. Sharpe, Inc., forthcoming. “Alcohol.” In The Encyclopedia of World War I, ed. Spencer C. Tucker. ABC-CLIO, 2005. | ||||||
 | Metz, Jen
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 | Orr, Timothy
| Publications
"George Washington as Southerner, the Eighteenth-Century South as a Diverse Resion, and the Struggle between Regionalism and Federalism" - review of Tamara Harvey and Greg O'brien, eds., George Washington's South (University Press of Florida, 2004), for H-Net (January, 2006) Review of J.M. Neil, To the White Clouds: Idaho's Conservation Saga, 1900-1970 (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 2005) for Pacific Northwest Quarterly (Spring 2006). Review of William Wyckoff, On the Road Again: Montana's Changing Landscape (Seattle: University of Washington Press / Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books, 2006), for Pacific Northwest Quarterly (Spring 2007).
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 | Port, Jeffrey
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 | Potts, Robyn
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 | Powell, Miles
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 | Reid, Joshua
| Dissertation
History of Indians in the American West typically avoids marine waters, exploring the process and the impact of the loss of ancestral lands. Like other indigenous maritime peoples, however, the conventional narrative does not fit the trajectory of Makah resistance, nor does it leave room for marine space. Unlike other scholars of American Indians, I argue that the Makah shaped their marine space rather than their terrestrial space as the primary location of their identity and success. Strategic exploitation of this space enabled the Makah to participate in global networks of exchange, to resist assimilation, and to retain greater autonomy than many other reservation communities. The 1855 Treaty of Neah Bay between the Americans and the Makah did not result in the loss of cultural and economic autonomy. Instead, in defiance of the treaty terms, the incremental loss of their marine space at the hands of non-indigenous rivals better able to capture the regulatory power of the state undermined Makah autonomy three generations after signing the treaty.
Selected Honors & Awards
Selected Publications & Conference Papers
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 | Reinhardt, Bob
| 20th Century North American Environmental History | ||||||
 | Ritacca, Elisabeth
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 | Scott, Samantha
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 | Spezio, Teresa Sabol
| Conference Paper: Garden Variety Invasions: Images, Perceptions and Effects of Invasive Species in late 20th Century California | ||||||
 | Steiner, Alison
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 | Stone, Kristin
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 | Sullivan, Casey
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 | Tripp, Ryan
| 18th Century Comparative Native Politics | ||||
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 | Wigmore, Gregory
| External Fellowships:
Resident Research Fellowship, David Library of the American Revolution, 2007-2008 Jacob Price Visiting Research Fellowship, William L. Clements Library, 2006-2007
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