Lisa M. Brady 27 September 2021

Department of History, MS 1925 https://history.boisestate.edu/faculty-staff/lisa-brady/

Boise State University lisabrady@boisestate.edu

1910 University Drive 208-426-4309

Boise, ID 83725-1925

EDUCATION

2003 Ph.D., American and Environmental History, University of Kansas

1997 M.Ed., Secondary Social Science Education, Montana State University – Billings

1995 M.A., with merit, History, University of Sydney, Australia

1993 B.A., History, University of New Mexico, Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2013-present Professor, Department of History, Boise State University

2008-2013 Associate Professor, tenured, Department of History, Boise State University

2003-2008 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Boise State University

ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2021- Chair, Department of History

2013-2019 Editor in Chief, Environmental History

2012-2013 Interim Graduate Coordinator, Department of History, Boise State University

2011-2013 Associate Editor, Environmental History

2007-2009 Assistant Chair, Department of History, Boise State University

PUBLICATIONS

Book, Peer-Reviewed

Contracted “War and the Environment: A Very Short Introduction.” Oxford University Press.

Expected publication, 2022.

2012 War upon the Land: Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern

Landscapes during the American Civil War. University of Georgia Press. Part of the

“Environmental History of the South” series edited by Paul Sutter.

• Selected as an “Outstanding Academic Title” by Choice Reviews

• Excerpted as “Landscape on Edge,” in Civil War Times (August 2013): 56-63.

Journal Articles, Peer-Reviewed

2020 “From War Zone to Biosphere Reserve: The Korean DMZ as a Scientific Landscape,”

Notes and Records of the Royal Society for the History of Science, 75 (June 2021):

185-205. Special Issue, “Biodiversity and the History of Scientific Environments,”

guest edited by Anita Guerrini and Georgina Montgomery. Published online October

21, 2020. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2020.0023.

2019 “Mountain, Militarized: North Korea, Nuclear Tests, and Nature.” Arcadia:

Explorations in Environmental History 3 (Spring), RCC Environment and Society

Portal. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/mountain-militarized-north-

korea-nuclear-tests-and-nature.

2018 “Sowing War, Reaping Peace: United Nations Resource Development Programs in the

Republic of Korea, 1950-1953,” Journal of Asian Studies 77 (May): 351-63.

2008 “Life in the DMZ: Turning a Diplomatic Failure into an Environmental Success,”

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Diplomatic History 32 (September): 585-611.

2005 “The Wilderness of War: Nature and Strategy in the American Civil War,”

Environmental History 10 (July): 421-47.

• Reprinted in Paul S. Sutter and Christopher J. Manganiello, eds., Environmental

History and the American South: A Reader (University of Georgia Press, 2009),

168-95.

2004 “‘This Terrible Conflict of the American People’: The Civil War Letters of Thaddeus

Minshall,” Ohio Valley History (Spring): 3-20.

Book Chapters, Peer-Reviewed

2019 “Valuing the Wounds of War: Korea’s DMZ as Nature Preserve.” In Collateral

Values: The Natural Capital Created by Landscapes of War, ed. Peter Smallwood

and Todd Lookingbill (London: Springer), 157-176.

2019 “War from the Ground Up: Integrating Military and Environmental Histories.” In A

Field on Fire: The Future of Environmental History, ed. Mark D. Hersey and Ted

Steinberg (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press), 250-62.

2018 “Nature as Material Culture: Antietam National Battlefield,” with Timothy Silver. In

War Matters: Essays on the Material Culture of the American Civil War, ed. Joan E.

Cashin (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press), 53-74.

2015 “Nature as Friction: Integrating Clausewitz into Environmental Histories of the Civil

War.” In The Blue, the Gray, and the Green: Toward an Environmental History of

the Civil War, ed. Brian Allen Drake (Athens: University of Georgia Press), 144-62.

2009 “Devouring the Land: Sherman’s 1864-1865 Campaigns.” In War and the

Environment: Military Destruction in the Modern Age, ed. Charles E. Closmann

(College Station: Texas A&M Press), 49-67.

Peer-Edited Publications

Contracted “Environment and War,” The Cambridge History of War and Society in America, ed.

Andrew Huebner and Jennifer Keene. Expected publication: 2023.

Accepted “War, the Environment, and American Military History,” in Oxford Handbook of

American Military History, ed. Samuel Watson. Accepted December 31, 2020.

Expected publication: 2022.

Accepted “A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place,” The Journal for Ecological

History. In Chinese. Expected publication: 2022.

2019 “Environment and War.” In Cambridge History of the American Civil War, ed. Aaron

Sheehan-Dean (New York: Cambridge University Press): 249-267.

2019 “New Directions in Environmental History,” with Mark D. Hersey, The American

Historian. https://www.oah.org/tah/issues/2019/environmental-history/new-

directions-in-environmental-history/

2014 “The Department of Defense and Its Precursors: History, Responsibilities, and

Policies (1770-Present).” In Edmund Russell and Sally Fairfax, eds., The Guide to

U.S. Environmental Policy (New York: DWJ Books), 243-54.

2012 “The Future of Civil War Era Studies: Environmental Histories,” Journal of the Civil

War Era. http://journalofthecivilwarera.com/forum-the-future-of-civil-war-era-

studies/the-future-of-civil-war-era-studies-environmental-histories/. (Invited)

2012 “Korea’s Green Ribbon of Hope: History, Ecology, and Activism in the DMZ,”

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Solutions 3 (Jan): 94-98. http://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/node/1047. (Invited)

• Reprinted by Al Jazeera, China Dialogue, and the Guardian (UK).

• Chosen as one of the “Five Best Green Stories” by Atlantic Wire, April 13, 2013.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/04/organic-hamburger-wont-save-

earth-dmz-wildlife-sanctuary/51101/

Encyclopedia Articles

2011 “Civil War.” In Encyclopedia of American Environmental History, ed. Kathleen

Brosnan (New York: Facts on File), 277-83.

2011 “Confederacy.” In Encyclopedia of American Environmental History, ed. Kathleen

Brosnan (New York: Facts on File), 317-19

2008 “Natural Disasters: Overview.” In Encyclopedia of the Modern World, ed. Peter N.

Stearns (New York: Oxford University Press).

2007 “Negotiating The Thin Red Line” (Invited). In Environmental History (April), 290.

2005 “Environment and War.” In Encyclopedia of War and American Society, ed. Peter

Karsten (New York: Sage Publications), 254-6.

2003 “Impact of Civil War.” In The Atlas of U. S. and Canadian Environmental History, ed.

Char Miller (New York: Routledge), 68-69.

2003 46 entries, including “Islam.” In Encyclopedia of American History: Three Worlds

Meet (Beginnings to 1607), Vol. 1, ed. Peter Mancall (New York: Facts on File).

In Progress (For Submission for Peer-Review)

Book “Conflict in the Land of the Morning Calm: An Environmental History of Twentieth-

century Korea”

Book Reviews

Accepted Benson, Etienne. Surroundings: A History of Environments and Environmentalisms

(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020). History: Reviews of New Books.

Forthcoming.

2021 Noe, Kenneth. The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War

(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2021). H-CivWar (https://www.h-

net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=55884).

2021 Fedman, David. Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea.

(Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020). European Journal of Korean Studies

(forthcoming).

2017 Dant, Sara. Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West. (London:

Wiley, 2016), Association of American Geographers Review of Books 5 (4): 249-250.

2017 Hughes, J. Donald, What Is Environmental History? Second Edition (London: Polity

Press, 2016), Journal of Contemporary History 52(2): 473-474.

2015 Lejano, Ingram, and Ingram, The Power of Narrative in Environmental Networks

(Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2013), Social Science Journal 52 (June): 288-89.

2014 Katherine Shively Meier, Nature’s Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment

in 1862 Virginia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013), American

Historical Review, 119 (5): 1698-1699.

2013 David Zierler, The Invention of Ecocide: Agent Orange, Vietnam, and the Scientists

Who Changed the Way We Think about the Environment (Athens: University of

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Georgia Press, 2011), Journal of Cold War Studies 15 (winter): 260-62.

2013 Mark Fiege, The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States

(Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012), Environment and History, 19

(August): 376-77.

2013 Megan Kate Nelson, Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War (Athens:

University of Georgia Press, 2012), Journal of the Civil War Era 3 (June): 283-85.

2013 “El Nino and La Nina Take on the Spanish Empire,” Review of Sherry Johnson,

Climate and Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution

(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011), Reviews in American

History, 41: 25-30.

2012 Chris Pearson, Peter Coates, and Tim Cole (eds), Militarized Landscapes: From

Gettysburg to the Salisbury Plain (London: Continuum, 2010), Journal of Historical

Geography, 38: 348.

2011 J.R. McNeill, Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-

1914 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), H-Environment Roundtable

Reviews 1, no. 1. URL: www.h-net.org/~environ/roundtables/env-roundtable-1-1.pdf.

2008 Robert K. Krick, Civil War Weather in Virginia (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama

Press, 2007), Journal of Southern History 74 (November): 976-7.

2007 Katherine G. Aiken, Idaho’s Bunker Hill: The Rise and Fall of a Great Mining

Company, 1885-1981 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005), Environmental

History 12 (July): 698.

2007 Jeff Alexander, The Muskegon: The Majesty and Tragedy of Michigan’s Rarest River

(East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2006), Michigan Historical Review

33 (Spring): 127-8.

2006 J.M. Neil, To the White Clouds: Idaho’s Conservation Saga, 1900-1970 (Pullman:

Washington State University Press, 2005), Western Historical Quarterly (Autumn):

393.

2005 Richard P. Tucker and Edmund P. Russell, eds., Natural Enemy, Natural Ally: Toward

an Environmental History of War (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2004),

Environmental History 10 (July): 540-1.

2005 Lisa Rosner, ed., The Technological Fix: How People Use Technology to Create and

Solve Problems (New York: Routledge, 2004), Environmental History 10 (April):

342-3.

2005 Mark H. Dunkelman, Brothers One and All: Esprit de Corps in a Civil War Regiment

(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004) and Ronald S. Coddington,

Faces of the Civil War: An Album of Union Soldiers and Their Stories (Baltimore:

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), Journal of Military History (April), 565-6.

2004 David C. Jones, Empire of Dust: Settling and Abandoning the Prairie Dry Belt

(Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2002), North Dakota History: Journal of the

Northern Plains 71: 49.

2004 Steven McManus, et al., Civil War Research Guide (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole

Books, 2003), Journal of Military History (July), 967.

2004 Gary Gallagher, ed., Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1862 (Chapel Hill: University of

North Carolina Press, 2003), Journal of Military History (April), 606-607.

Other Publications

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2021 “A Disturbing Pattern,” with Sara Pritchard, Brinda Sarathy, Nancy Langston,

Kathleen Brosnan, Ann Greene, Emily Wakild, Julie Cohn, Laura Alice Watt,

Nancy Jacobs, Sarah Elkind, and Sarah Gregg. In Inside Higher Ed. Accepted July

22; published August 27.

https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2021/08/27/entrenched-inequity-not-

appropriately-citing-scholarship-women-and-people-color

2018 “Demystifying the Publication Process,” American Society for Environmental History

Newsletter, Summer. https://aseh.net/publications/newsletter.

• An extended version is available here: https://aseh.net/resources/for-

students/demystifying-the-publishing-process

2016 “On the Edge of Wilderness.” In Murray Feldman and Jennifer Emery Davidson, eds.,

Idaho Wilderness Considered (Boise: Idaho Humanities Council).

• Originally published in Idaho Humanities Council Newsletter, Winter 2014.

• Republished by The Blue Review, Boise State University

(https://thebluereview.org/brady-50th-anniversary-wilderness-act-1964/).

• Winner of the Idaho Library Association’s “Idaho Book of the Year Award”

2015 “Has Environmental History Lost Its Way?” Process: A Blog for American History,

Organization of American Historians. http://www.processhistory.org/?p=1176.

Published 15 December. (Invited)

2009 “State of the Field: Environmental History Themes, 1491-1900,” Advanced Placement

U.S. History Curriculum, College Board.

2007 “What’s in a Fence?” Idaho Humanities Council Newsletter, Winter: 1, 3.

FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS

2020 Lisa Mighetto Distinguished Service Award, American Society for Environmental

History

2019 China Residency Program Fellow, Nankai University, Tianjin, PRC, sponsored by the

Organization for American Historians and the Ford Foundation, June 24-28

2017 Carson Writing Fellowship, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society,

Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

2010 Samuel P. Hays Research Fellowship, American Society for Environmental History

2010 General and Mrs. Matthew B. Ridgway Research Fellowship, US Army Military

History Institute of the US Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle, PA

2005 International Canadian Summer Institute, Canadian Consulate General, Alberta

UNIVERSITY AWARDS (Teaching, Scholarship, Research)

2020 Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching, Associated Student Body

of Boise State University

2017 Foundation Scholars Award for Service

2014 Honorable Mention, Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching,

Associated Students of Boise State University

2010 President’s Leadership Academy, Boise State University

2009 Honored Faculty, Top Ten Scholars (Dane Vanhoozer, Scholar), Boise State

University

2007 Faculty Recognition Award Nominee, Associated Students of Boise State

University

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2007 Women Making History Award, Women’s Center

2007 Faculty Partner Award, Division of Student Affairs

2006 Award for Tenure-Track Teaching, Research, and Service, College of Social

Sciences and Public Affairs

2006 Faculty Partner Award Nominee, Division of Student Affairs

2006 Faculty Inductee, Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society

2004 Coach for a Game, Department of Intercollegiate Athletics

2004 Faculty Recognition Award Nominee, Associated Students of Boise State

University

INVITED RESEARCH TALKS

2019 “Green Ribbon of Hope: The Korean War and Its Environmental Legacy,” Herrett

Foundation Lecture, College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, ID, February 12

2018 “Bridging the Divide: Nature, Science, and Politics on the Korean Peninsula,” Keynote

Address, “Biodiversity and the History of Scientific Environments” Workshop,

Oregon State University, 30 October

2017 “Capitalist Pigs: International Aid Agencies and Agricultural Development in the

Republic of Korea, 1945-1961,” Nanjing University, Nanjing, PRC, October 24

2017 “No-Man’s Land as Nature Preserve: The Strange Case of Cold War Conservation,”

Forest History Society Lynn W. Day Distinguished Lecture, Duke University,

October 12

2017 “Capitalist Pigs: International Aid Agencies and Agricultural Development in the

Republic of Korea, 1945-1961,” High Seminar Lecture, KTH Royal Institute of

Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, March 7

2017 “Capitalist Pigs: International Aid Agencies and Agricultural Development in the

Republic of Korea, 1945-1961,” Lunchtime Colloquium Lecture, Rachel Carson

Center, Munich, Germany, February 2

2016 “Nature’s War: Modern War and Environmental History,” Idaho State University,

Pocatello, ID, November 9

2016 “Winning the War with Goats and Pigs: United Nations Resource Development

Programs in the Republic of Korea (1950-1953),” Colloquium Series on Korean

Cultural Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY, November 2

2016 “Growing Pains and Climate Strains: An Environmental Historical Comparison of

Development in the Republic of Korea and the United States of America,” Hallym

University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea, September 6

2015 Charles L. Wood Lecture in Agricultural History, Texas Tech University, Lubbock,

TX, February 20

2014 “Down and Dirty in Dixie: An Environmental History of the US Civil War,” Lampros

Lecture in Civil War History, Weber State University, Odgen, UT, November 11

2014 “From the Ground Up: An Environmental History of the American Civil War,”

University of Western Alabama, October 6

2014 “Murdered Nature: Toward an Environmental History of Modern War,” CHASES

Lecture, Mississippi State University, October 3

2014 “Beauty from Desolation: The US Civil War and the Impetus for Nature Preservation,”

College of Idaho, March 20

2011 “The Environmental Legacy of the Korean War,” DMZ Forum Annual Meeting, New

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York, NY, December 7

2010 “The Green Ribbon of Hope: The Korean War and Its Environmental Legacy,” Lewis

Clark State College, Lewiston, ID, November 8

2010 “Korea’s DMZ: Nature, Culture, and the Prospect for Peace,” World Knowledge

Forum, Seoul, Korea, October 14

2009 “Life in the DMZ: Turning a Diplomatic Failure into an Environmental Success,”

Keynote Address, DMZ Forum Annual Meeting, New York, NY, December 15

2007 “The Nature of War and Peace: Local Challenges, Global Implications, and

Environmental History,” Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL, November 28

GRANTS

Funded

2016 “Engaging Pedagogies for Student Success,” with Emily Wakild, Nick Miller, Lynn

Lubamersky, Katherine Huntley, and Karen Pinto, Boise State University ($18,000

requested; $12,000 funded)

2015 “NSF Idaho EPSCoR MILES I-SEED Grant,” co-PI with Dr. Kevin Marsh, Idaho State

University ($15,172.40; fully funded)

• Hired Graduate Research Assistant Shiann Johns

2012-14 “Mobile Learning Initiative,” co-Director with Leslie Madsen-Brooks, Boise State

University ($38,727; fully funded)

2012 “Web-based ‘Teaching EH’ Unit on October 2007 Special Issue of Environmental

History on Canada,” Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE)

($9,750 requested; $6,000 funded)

2006 “Dr. Martin Marty Public Lecture,” Idaho Humanities Council Major Grant ($3,500;

fully funded)

Not Funded

2016 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend ($6,000 requested)

2013 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College and University

Professors, “The Power of History: Energy, Environment and Society” ($199,638

requested)

2012 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College and University

Professors, “Powering the Pan-Pacific: Energy, Environment and History” ($199,997

requested)

2010 National Endowment for the Humanities Teaching Development Grant ($20,000

requested)

2009 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend ($6,000 requested)

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY

Invited Presentations at Sponsored Conferences, Workshops, and Seminars

2021 “Uncharted Depth: Toward an Environmental History of US Naval Operations in the

Pacific,” for the “War, Environment, and the Pacific World” Symposium, University

of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, scheduled October 15-16

2019 “No Man’s Lands: War, Peace, and Militarized Landscapes,” Keynote Address,

“International Symposium on Human and Environmental Changes in American

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History,” Nankai University, Tianjin, PRC, June 22

2017 “Environmental History: The Field and the Journal,” Nankai University, Tianjin, PRC,

October 29

2017 “Doing History in the Anthropocene,” Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, PRC,

October 26

2017 “Building an Environmental History Program,” Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel,

October 17

2017 “Inside Insight: Publishing in Environmental History,” Moderated Keynote

Discussion, Fourth Annual Israeli Conference on Environmental History, Tel Aviv

University, Tel Aviv, Israel, October 16

2016 “War! What’s It Good For: An Environmental Analysis of Modern War,” Center for

Ecological History, “Riches of Nature, Limits of Nature: Donald Worster and

Environmental History” Conference, Renmin University, Beijing, PRC, June 29

2014 “Reclaiming Nature, Remaking the State: Post-war Reconstruction in the Republic of

Korea, 1953-1965,” Nature and Culture Seminar, Renmin University of China,

Beijing, PRC, May 15

2014 “Environmental History and Modern Warfare,” 9-session Lecture Series, Beijing

Normal University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, May 12-30

2014 “Killing Fields: Korea’s War in Environmental Perspective,” Humanities Institute,

Center for Tomorrow, State University of New York – Buffalo, “Civil Wars:

Narrating Horror and Hope” Conference, Buffalo, March 28

2012 “War Upon the Land: Landscape and Strategy in the American Civil War,” Andrus

Center for Public Policy, “Why the Civil War Still Matters” Conference, Boise,

October 25

2012 “Seeing the Elephant: War, Nature, and History,” Hall Center for the Humanities,

“Nature’s Historians” Conference, University of Kansas, September 22

2012 “Exploring the Penumbra: The United Nations in Korea, 1945-1955,” University of

Helsinki, “The Long Shadows: An Environmental History of the Second World War”

Workshop, Helsinki, Finland, August 10

2011 “Nature as Friction: Integrating Clausewitz into Environmental Analyses of the Civil

War,” University of Georgia, “Un-Civil War Conference,” October 22

2010 “The Perplexing Nature of War and Peace: An Environmental Analysis,” Arizona State

University, “Breaking Down the Walls Conference,” Phoenix, March 31

2007 “Making a Desert and Calling It Peace: Changing Ideas of Wilderness after the U.S.

Civil War,” Rice University, Houston Area Southern History Seminar, December 3

2004 “Ravaged: Warfare, Gender, and Environment in the American Civil War,” German

Historical Institute, “War and the Environment: Contexts and Consequences of

Military Destruction in the Modern Age” Conference, Washington, D.C., May 7

Papers Presented at Academic Conferences

Accepted “UN Naval Operations in Korea and their Environmental Implications,” United

Nations and the Korean War conference, Pusan National University, Republic of

Korea, scheduled for October 2022

2021 “Riding the Wave to Victory: UN Naval Operations in the Korean War and their

Environmental Implications,” Featured Roundtable: “Asian and Oceanian

Environmental History in the Future? Part 2: Pacific Worlds,” Association for East

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Asian Environmental History, Kyoto University, Japan, scheduled September 10,

online

2019 “Soldiers of Fortune: USAID in South Korea, 1950-1970,” American Society for

Environmental History, Columbus, OH, April 12

2017 “Water Works: United Nations Hydroelectric and Irrigation Projects in South Korea,

1945-1961,” East Asian Environmental History Conference, Nankai University,

Tianjin, PRC, October 27

2017 “Pigs, Pines, and Prosperity: International Aid Agencies and Resource Development in

South Korea, 1945-1961,” Association for Korean Studies in Europe, Prague, Czech

Republic, April 21

2016 “Winning the War with Goats and Pigs: United Nations Resource Development

Programs in the Republic of Korea, 1945-1965,” Association for Asian Studies,

Seattle, WA, April 3

2015 “Growing Pains: An Environmental Historical Comparison of the Republic of Korea

and the United States as Model Developing Nations,” Association for East Asian

Environmental History, Takamatsu, Japan, October 25

2015 “Why Red-crowned Cranes are Thriving in the DPRK: Underdevelopment as

Conservation Strategy,” American Society for Environmental History, Washington,

DC, March 20

2012 “Reconstructing a New Nation: Postwar Projects and Environmental Change in South

Korea,” American Soc. For Environmental History, Madison, WI, March 29

2012 “Ecologies of Loss, Ecologies of Promise: War and Reconstruction in the Republic of

Korea,” Association for Asian Studies, Toronto, Canada, March 16

2010 “Devastation on All Fronts: The Korean War as Natural Disaster,” American Society

for Environmental History, Portland, OR, March 12

2007 “Shifting Ground: Interpreting the American Civil War through Environmental

History,” American Historical Society, Atlanta, GA, January 7

2006 “Integrating Environmental History into the Social Studies Curriculum,” Idaho Council

for History Education, Boise, ID, October 6

2006 “Breaking the Ice: Korea, the Cold War, and the Fate of the DMZ Bioreserve,”

American Society for Environmental History, St. Paul, MN, March 31

2006 “Geography of Destruction: Sheridan’s Raids in the Shenandoah Valley, 1864,”

Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, March 9

2004 “The Military Environment: Three Case Studies of the Environmental Implications of

US Military Action in Peace and War,” Society for Military History, Frederick, MD,

April 20

2003 “The Nature of War: An Environmental Analysis of the Civil War as Total War,”

American Historical Association, Chicago, IL, January 4

Discussant/Panelist

2021 Panelist, “Roundtable: The Civil War as Ecological Event,” Society of Civil War

Historians Conference, June 18, online

2021 Panelist, “War and the Environment: A Discussion Examining the State of the Field,”

American Society for Environmental History Environmental History Week, April 20,

online (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvBxMrP_Cqk)

2020 Panelist, “Film Club: Using Apocalypse Now and Other Fictional Films in the

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Classroom,” American Society for Environmental History, Ottawa, Canada,

scheduled March 28 (Cancelled due to COVID-19)

2019 Invited Panelist, “The Future of Environmental History,” American Society for

Environmental History, Columbus, OH, April 12

2019 Discussant, “Military Ecologies,” American Society for Environmental History,

Columbus, OH, April 12

2019 Invited Panelist, “Journal Editing,” Organized by the AHA Professional Division,

American Historical Association, Chicago, IL, January 4

2019 Panelist, “Editors’ Guide,” American Historical Association, Editors’ Breakfast,

January 4

2018 Panelist, “#AcHack: Tips for Getting Funded and Published,” American Society for

Environmental History, Riverside, CA, March 16

2018 Panelist, “Publishing in Environmental History,” Harvard Center for the Environment,

February 8

2017 Panelist and Chair, “Idaho’s Gem: The Tuber that Changed the World,” for

Multidisciplinary Session “Localising the Anthropocene,” East Asian Environmental

History Conference, Nankai University, Tianjin, PRC, October 28

2017 Discussant and Chair, “Water and Marine History,” East Asian Environmental History

Conference, Nankai University, Tianjin, PRC, 28 October

2017 Discussant and Moderator, “The Nature State: A New Conceptualization,” European

Society for Environmental History, Zagreb, Croatia, July 1

2017 Discussant, “40 Years of Environmental History: A Retrospective on Our Journal,”

American Society for Environmental History, Chicago, IL, March 30

2016 Discussant and Presenter, Global Environmental History Graduate Student Conference,

Georgetown University, Washington, DC, November 5

2016 Discussant and Presenter, “Getting Your Article Published,” Cascadia Environmental

History Collaborative Workshop, Pack Forest, WA, September 26

2016 Invited Panelist, “Presidential Panel: The ‘New’ Military History,” Society for Military

History, Ottawa, Canada, April 15

2016 Discussant, “Environment and the First Winter of the American Civil War,”

Organization for American Historians, Providence, RI, April 8

2015 Discussant and Presenter, WHEATS Graduate Student Conference, University of

Colorado-Boulder, October 2-4

2015 Discussant and Presenter, Cascadia Environmental History Collaborative Workshop,

Pack Forest, WA, September 24-27

2015 Discussant, “Empire, Revolution, and Local Governance: Military-Environmental

Convergence,” American Society for Environmental History, Washington, March 19

2014 Invited panelist, “Meet the Presses: Graduate Students and the World of Publishing,” A

roundtable and networking session, American Society for Environmental History,

San Francisco, CA, March 14

2014 Discussant, “Rain-Soaked Landscapes and Barren Ground: Environmental

Perspectives on the Civil War South,” American Society for Environmental History,

San Francisco, CA, March 15

2013 Discussant, “Environmental Consequences of Twentieth-Century Civil Wars,”

European Society for Environmental History, Munich, Germany, August 24

2013 Invited panelist, “Bridging the Nature/Culture Divide: Interpreting the Environmental

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History of the War,” Gettysburg National Military Park and the Civil War Institute at

Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA, March 15

2013 Invited panelist, “Theorizing the History of War and the Environment,” National

Council for History Sponsored Panel, American Historical Association, New Orleans,

LA, January 5

2012 Presidential Roundtable Panelist, “Conversations between Military and Environmental

History,” Society for Military History, Arlington, VA, May 12

2011 Roundtable Panelist, “New Approaches to the History of War and the Environment: A

Discussion of J.R. McNeill’s Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater

Caribbean, 1620-1914,” American Society for Environmental History, Phoenix, AZ,

April 15

2011 Discussant, “Preindustrial Warfare and Environments in the Atlantic World,”

American Society for Environmental History, Phoenix, AZ, April 15

2009 Discussant, “The American Civil War and the Environment” Panel, American Society

for Environmental History, Tallahassee, FL, February 27

Panels Organized

2022 “Harnessing the Power of Energy History,” American Historical Association, New

Orleans. Scheduled for January 8 (originally accepted for 2021 conference,

resubmitted and accepted for 2022 conference).

2021 “History and Historians in Response to COVID-19: Infection and Inequality,”

American Historical Association, Seattle, January 7-10 (In-person cancelled due to

Covid-19; selected for AHA-produced webinar)

2021 “History and Historians in Response to COVID-19: Containing Contagion,” American

Historical Association, Seattle, January 7-10 (In-person cancelled due to Covid-19;

selected for AHA-produced webinar)

2021 “History and Historians in Response to COVID-19: Plagues Past and Present,”

American Historical Association, Seattle, January 7-10 (In-person cancelled due to

Covid-19; selected for AHA-produced webinar)

2021 “The Challenges of Climate History: A Roundtable Discussion,” American Historical

Association, Seattle, January 7-10 (In-person cancelled due to Covid-19; selected for

AHA-produced webinar)

2021 “Integrating Environmental History into the Curriculum: A Roundtable Discussion,”

American Historical Association, Seattle, January 7-10 (In-person cancelled due to

Covid-19; selected for AHA-produced webinar)

2021 With Mary E. Mendoza, “Confronting History of Environmental Racism and

(In)Justice in the United States and Beyond,” American Historical Association,

Seattle, January 7-10 (Cancelled due to Covid-19)

2021 “Doing Environmental History: Lessons from East Asia,” American Historical

Association, Seattle, January 7-10 (Cancelled due to Covid-19)

2021 “Harnessing the Power of Energy History,” American Historical Association, Seattle,

January 7-10 (Cancelled due to Covid-19)

2021 With Cristóbal Borges, “Undoing the Erasure: Community Approaches at

Remembering and Learning from the Japanese American Exclusion,” American

Historical Association, Seattle, January 7-10 (Cancelled due to Covid-19)

2015 “State of the Field: Environmental History,” with Lincoln Bramwell, USDA Forest

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Service, Organization of American Historians, St. Louis, MO, April 17

2015 “Preserving an Asian Symbol: Red-Crowned Crane Conservation in China, Japan, and

Korea,” American Society for Environmental History, Washington, DC, March 20

2012 “When Local and Global Collide: Responses to Warfare in an Interdependent World,”

American Society for Environmental History, Madison, WI, March 29

2010 “Nature and War in China, Japan, and Korea, 1941-1953,” American Society for

Environmental History, Portland, OR, March 12

2007 “Crossroads of War: At the Intersection of Military, Diplomatic, and Environmental

Histories,” Invited Presidential Panel, Society for Military History, Frederick, MD,

April 20

2006 “Geographies of the American Civil War, Past and Present” Panel, Association of

American Geographers, Chicago, IL, March 9

2004 “Environmental History,” Idaho History Conference, Twin Falls, ID, March 13

Moderator

2020 “Capitalist Transformations,” American Society for Environmental History, Ottawa,

Canada, scheduled 28 March (Cancelled due to COVID-19)

2017 “Incidental Landscapes of War: Military Manipulation, Commodification, and

Utilization of Nature,” American Society for Environmental History, Chicago, IL,

April 1

2016 “Knowing Global Landscapes: Field Science and Local Society in Brazil, Congo, and

India,” American Society for Environmental History, Seattle, WA, April 2

2016 “Digital Landscapes: Mapping History, Mapping the Discipline,” American Society for

Environmental History, Seattle, WA, March 31

2015 “State of the Field: Environmental History,” Organization of American Historians, St.

Louis, MO, April 17

2015 “An Appetite for Energy: Power Production, Policy, and Environment in the 20th-

Century United States,” American Society for Environmental History, Washington,

DC, March 19

2014 “Masculinity and Hunting,” World Congress for Environmental History, Guimaraes,

Portugal, 11 July

2014 “The Country and the City: Connecting People and their Places in Environmental

History” Conference, Co-sponsored by the Center for Ecological History, Renmin

University of China and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society,

LMU Munich, Beijing, China, 31 May

2013 “Making Land Productive,” European Society for Environmental History, Munich,

Germany, August 22

2012 “Building Borders, Crossing Borders: Animals in the Making of Modern Political

Order in East Asia,” American Society for Environmental History, Madison, WI,

March 29

2010 “Militarization of Landscapes,” American Society for Environmental History,

Portland, OR, March 11

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Workshops and Institutes

2021 Selected for Participation, “Hokkaido 2020: Diversity, Transformation, Renewal,”

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Professional Development Workshop on Hokkaido, sponsored by the Japan Studies

Association, the University of Hawai’i Center for Japanese Studies, and the

University of Kansas Center for East Asian Studies, scheduled May 31-June 11

• Workshop will offer a nuanced understanding of the impact of the natural

environment on Hokkaido’s history, the “frontier” legacy of Japanese settlers, and

Ainu society and culture.

• Participants will rely on “object-based learning” and “mining the museum”

methodologies to engage with Hokkaido’s material culture.

2018 Participant, “Promoting a Public Face for Scholarly Journals,” Triangle Scholarly

Communication Institute, Chapel Hill, NC, October 7-11

• Member of a six-person team that will explore what can be done to reduce risk in

creating a public face for scholarly journals, using history journals as a case study

and create a guide to platforms and strategies for public engagement to be

disseminated online.

• Outcomes: presentation at the journal editors’ breakfast at the 2019 American

Historical Association conference; a roundtable at that meeting to engage users,

readers, and potential contributors beyond journal editors; applications for

funding for workshops, online resources, and hosting and technical support to

help journals create an online presence.

2018 Participant, “Infusing Korean Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum Institute,”

East-West Center, University of Hawai’i-Manoa, Honolulu, HI, July 29-August 11

• Member of a three-person team from Boise State engaged in creating a Korean

Studies Minor on campus

• Will create two new courses: Pre-modern Korean History and Environmental

History of Korea; may also create a course on the Korean War

2017 Participant, “Workshop on East Asian Environmental History,” Center for East Asian

Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, March 12

• Presented “Reading Nature in Maps”

• Developed syllabus for upper-division course on East Asian Environmental

History

2008-09 Boise State Teaching Scholar, Language and Culture across the Curriculum

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Graduate Courses

Nature of History: Historiography and Historical Philosophy

Practice of History: Introduction to Historical Methods

Sources of Human Traditions: Environmental History

American Civil War and Reconstruction

Environmental History

North American Environmental History

Digital Humanities Skills

Undergraduate Courses

Lower Division

Asian History from Antiquity to the Present

Beyond the BA: Preparing Professional Portfolios

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Global Environmental History: Science and Nature Writing

People and Nature: Environmental Studies Communication in the Discipline

Place as Past: Introduction to Environmental History

Themes in World History: Revolution

United States History from 1877

United States History through 1877

Upper Division

American Civil War and Reconstruction

Asian Environmental History

Environmental History of Modern East Asia

Environmental History of Modern War

Global Environmental History

History and Geography of Food and Drink (Honors)

The Korean War

North American Environmental History

United States Urban Environmental History

Workshops (Graduate and Undergraduate)

Civil War and Reconstruction (Teaching American History Summer Teaching Institute)

The Desert in American History and Culture (Desert Studies Institute)

The Desert in Global History (Desert Studies Institute)

Environmental History of the American Civil War (Fettuccini Forum Public Lecture Series)

Environmental History of Food (Fettuccini Forum Public Lecture Series)

Nature Study: Integrating the Environment in Education

Nature through Hollywood’s Lens: The Environment in Film

Professional Portfolio Development for History Students

A Word for Nature: Nature Writing (Idaho Humanities Summer Teaching Institute)

Graduate MA Thesis and MAHR Project Committees (*chair or co-chair)

In Progress *Roy Cuellar, *Peter Leavell, Autumn Liedkie, Ian Morris, Eli Sauerwald,

*Timothy Syreen

2021 *Kole Dawson, Eli Griffin, Greg LaDonne

2020 Angie Davis, *Becky Stephens

2019 *Marnie Nichole, Jennifer Tucker

2018 *Mia Russell

2017 Yancy Mailes

2016 *Adam Behrman

2015 HannaLore Hein, *Molly May, Lucas Sprouse, April Raine

2014 *Michael Beaudoin

2013 *LauriAnn Deaver, *Jim Duran, Timothy Guill

2012 Keegan Cothern, Clete Edmunson, *Elizabeth Miller, *Stephanie Milne, *Martha

Wharry Turner

2011 Luke Schleif

2010 *Carissa Black

2009 *William Anderson, Josh Barnard, *Kelly Orgill, Olivia Umphrey

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2008 *Christopher Blanchard

2007 Johnny Hester, Audra Hoyt

2006 Robert Kent, *Kelly Mitchell, *Edward Vanegas

2005 Duke Staggs, Mary Katherine Mills

Director, Undergraduate Student Research

2009 Kosorok, Guthneck, Mowry, Pankau, and Elayer, “Boise State University: Increasing

Bicycle Use in the Treasure Valley.” Multimedia Presentation, Undergraduate

Research and Scholarship Conference, Boise State University

Co-Director: Dr. Christopher Hill; Winner, First Place, Audience Choice

2009 Thompson, “Idaho City and a Historic Chinese Placer Site: Beliefs and Land Use.”

Podium Presentation, Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Conference

2009 Vanhoozer, “Evolving Perceptions of American Nature: The Sagebrush Rebellion and

the Struggle to Find Common Ground.” Poster Presentation, Undergraduate

Research and Scholarship Conference, Boise State University

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

Tenure and Promotion Reviewer

Bates College; Bowdoin College; Brooklyn College-CUNY; Idaho State University; Loyola

Marymount University; Purdue University; University of Massachusetts-Boston; University of

Missouri; University of Missouri-Kansas City (2); University of Oslo (Norway); University of

Texas at Tyler

External Program Evaluator

Oregon State University, Master of Environmental Arts and Humanities Program

Pre-Publication Manuscript Reviewer

Book Series Proposals: Cornell University Press

Books: Berghan (UK); Bloomsbury (UK); Cambridge University Press; Columbia University

Press; Oxford University Press; Routledge; University of North Carolina Press

Articles: Agricultural History; Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography; Applied Geography;

Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History (Germany); Civil War History;

Environment and History (UK); Environmental History (US); Idaho Issues Online;

Journal of American History; Journal of the Civil War Era; Journal of Military

History; Journal of Southern History; Journal of War and Culture Studies (UK);

Southern Cultures; War in History (Australia), War and Society (Australia)

Prize Committees

2014-2016 Member, Coffman First Manuscript Prize, Society for Military History

2011 Member, Theodore C. Blegen Award, Forest History Society

2009 Member, Love of Learning Award, Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society

Boards of Directors

2021- Member, Council for the Association for East Asian Environmental History

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2013-2019 Member, American Society for Environmental History Executive Committee, ex

officio

2010-2019 Member, Forest History Society Board of Directors, ex officio 2013-2019

2010-2019 DMZ Forum Board of Directors, Secretary, 2010-2013

2009-2016 Idaho Humanities Council

• Chair, 2013-2015

• Vice-Chair, 2011-2013

• Executive Committee Member, 2010-2016

Service to Professional Organizations

2019-2021 Co-Chair, American Historical Association Program Committee, Seattle Meeting

2020 Evaluator, Fellowship Program, National Humanities Center

2019 Evaluator, Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grant Program,

National Endowment for the Humanities

2018 Evaluator, Social Sciences Collaborative Grant Program, National Endowment for

the Humanities

2016 Member, OUP Journals Day Planning Committee

2014 Member, Organizing Committee, Wilderness Act 50th Anniversary Conference,

Boise, ID, October 19-20. In partnership with: Frank Church Institute, Idaho

Humanities Council, Andrus Center for Public Policy, Boise State University

2010-2012,

2014

Member, American Society for Environmental History Executive Director Review

Committee

2007-2008 Member, Teacher Institute Planning Committee, Idaho Humanities Council

2005-2008 Co-Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, American Society for Environmental

History Annual Conference, Boise, Idaho, March 12-15, 2008

2005 Member, Pacific Northwest History Conference Program Committee

University

2019-2020 Mentor, Center for Teaching and Learning New Faculty Connections Program

2015- 2018 Graduate Faculty Representative, Graduate College

2015 Panelist, “Getting Published: Views from the Editor,” Center for Teaching and

Learning, November 18

2014 Member, Academic Technologies, Instructional Design Consultant Search

Committee

2013-2014 Member, Arts and Humanities Institute Workshops and Conferences Subcommittee

2007-2014 Member, Arts and Humanities Institute Executive Board

2013 Outside Reviewer, Student Research Initiative

2013 Organizer and Panel Moderator, “Water Works: A Two-Day Event Exploring

Water in the West,” April 25-26

2010-2013 Organizer, Arts and Humanities Institute Environment and Society

Interdisciplinary Research Group

2012 Member, Graduate Assistant Policy Revision Committee

2011 Co-Organizer, public lecture by Dr. James McKusick, “The Poetics of Nature,”

Sponsored by Environment and Society Interdisciplinary Research Group & Arts

and Humanities Institute

2011 Member, College of Health Sciences Finishing Foundations Task Force

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2011 Panelist, “How to Thrive in Your Mid-Career,” Center for Teaching and Learning

Professional Development Series

2010-2011 Curriculum Revision Facilitator

2010-2011 Mentor, Faculty Connections Program

2009-2011 Member, Distinguished Lecturer Series Committee

2009 Panelist, “Keeping Your Scholarly Activity Alive, Well, and Moving Forward,”

New Faculty Orientation Session

2008-2009 President, Phi Kappa Phi

2008 Panelist, “Graduate Mentoring: From Good to Great,” Center for Teaching and

Learning

2007 Member, Search Committee for Associate Director of University Housing

2007 Member, Earth Week Organizing Committee

2006-2007 Consultant, Center for Teaching and Learning

2006 Member, Promoting Original Student Writing Working Group

2006 Member, Vice President for Student Affairs Search Committee

2005-2007 Member, Canadian Studies Advisory Board

2005 Creator, Faculty Senate Proposal to Adopt a Plagiarism Detection Service

2004-2008 Faculty-in-Residence, Arts and Humanities (Renaissance) Residential College

2003-2008 Member, Environmental Studies Steering Committee

College

2019- Member, COAS Curriculum Committee (Chair, 2020-2021)

2019-2021 Member, Promotion Mentoring Committee for Leslie Madsen

2014-2105 Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee

2012, 2013 Member, SSPA Dean Evaluation Committee

2011-2012 Co-Chair, SSPA Curriculum Committee

2006-2012 Member, SSPA Curriculum Committee

2004 Judge, Phi Kappa Phi Wallace G. Kay Outstanding Student Writing Contest

2003-2006 Chair, Faculty Awards Committee

Department

2020-2021 Chair, Pre-tenure Mentoring Committee: Raymond Krohn

2019-2021 Member, Graduate Committee

2019-2020 Co-chair, Early America Position Search Committee

2018-2019 Member, Middle East Position Search Committee

2018-2019 Member, Standing Committee on Programming and Priorities

2017-2020 Chair, Pre-tenure Mentoring Committee: Bob H. Reinhardt

2017-2018 Member, Standing Committee on Research

2015-2016 Chair, Standing Committee on Teaching

2014-2015 Program Prioritization Action Committee

2014-2015 MA Program External Evaluation Committee

2013-2014 Member, City History Fellowship Fundraising Steering Committee

2012-2016 Member, Pre-tenure Mentoring Committee: Katherine Huntley

2012-2015 Chair, Pre-tenure Mentoring Committee: Leslie Madsen-Brooks

2012-2014 Chair, Pre-tenure Mentoring Committee: Emily Wakild

2012 Leader, Faculty Workshop on Teaching “Themes in World History”

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2011-2014 College Coordinator and Judge, Phi Kappa Phi Outstanding Student Writing

Contest

2011-2012 Chair, Latin American Position Search Committee

2010-2012 Member, Graduate Selection and Awards Committee

2010-2011 Member, Caylor/Tozer Award for Best Undergraduate Paper Committee

2007-2009 Chair, Adjunct Committee

2007-2009 Member, Workload Committee

2007-2008 Chair, World History Committee

2006-2007 Member, Latin American Position Search Committee

2006 Member, Phi Alpha Theta Award for Best Graduate Research Paper Committee

2005 Member, Scholarship Committee

2004, 2005 Member, Caylor/Tozer Award for Best Undergraduate Paper Committee

2003-2005 Member, History Graduate Program Committee

Environmental Studies Major

2018- Member, Advisory Board

2006 Member, Sub-committee for Program Development

2004-2005 Member, Ad-hoc Curriculum Development

2003-2006 Advisor, Environmental Studies Senior Project

Student Service

2014 Panelist, “Making History Work: An Evening of Speed Networking,” Sponsored

by Preservation Idaho & Boise State University Arts and Humanities Institute,

April 8

2013 Faculty Advisor, Graduate and Professional Student Organization

2011 Faculty Advisor, Northwest Regional Phi Alpha Theta Conference, Seattle,

University, Seattle, WA, April 7-9

2011 Discussant, “Natural Environment and Economics in the Pacific Northwest” Panel,

Northwest Regional Phi Alpha Theta Conference, Seattle University, Seattle,

WA, April 7

2011 Moderator, “Maritime Fighters, British Authorities, and the American Struggle for

Independence” Panel, Northwest Regional Phi Alpha Theta Conference, Seattle

University, Seattle, WA, April 9

2011 Panelist, “Graduate Symposium: Publishing Your History Research,” Department

of History, Boise State University (student organized), November 4

2008-2009 Faculty Mentor, McNair Scholars Program, Amber Thompson

2008 Member, Fulbright Award Interview Committee

2007 Idaho History Day Interviews: Fritz Rodriguez, on Chico Mendez and rainforest

environmental issues; Becca Quick, on 54th Massachusetts Regiment and the Civil

War; Shelby Elkins, Taylor Odneal, and Anna England, on Environmental Effects

of the English Industrial Revolution;

2006, 2007 Judge, Papers Category, Regional “Idaho History Day” Contest, Idaho State

Historical Society

2006 Idaho History Day Interview, David Anderson, on Rose O’Neal Greenhow &

Battle of First Bull Run

2006 Discussant, “Conservation at Home and Abroad” Panel, Phi Alpha Theta

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Northwest Regional History Conference, Boise, ID, April 8

2005 Faculty Advisor, Northwest Regional Phi Alpha Theta Conference, Sun Valley, ID,

April 8-9

2005 Discussant, “The American Civil War” Panel, Phi Alpha Theta Northwest Regional

History Conference, Sun Valley, ID, April 9

2005 Moderator, “Early American Diplomacy and Warfare” Panel, Phi Alpha Theta

Northwest Regional History Conference, Sun Valley, ID, April 9

2004, 2005 Judge, Exhibits Category, State “Idaho History Day” Contest, Idaho State

Historical Society

2004-2009 Faculty Advisor, Environmental Studies Student Association

Public Scholarship

2021 Invited Speaker, “Northeast Asia Environmental Tipping Points after a Century of

Conflict and Hard Choices: Deforestation, DMZ, and the Gobi Desert,” International

Leadership Conference, Universal Peace Federation and Washington Times Foundation,

June 25, available online at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg0WBfb0qk0&ab_channel=UPFUSAChannel

2017 Invited Speaker, “Journal Editing in a Changing World,” for the “Lunchtime Speakers

Series,” Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany, 26

June

2017 Invited Panelist, “Living with Uncertainties: Scarcity, Climate, Politics,” Public

Discussion, Arena Idé, Stockholm, Sweden, 7 March

2016 Co-Curator, “Saving the Earth One Day at a Time: An Earth Day Exhibit,” with Kate

Claussen, Graduate Student Research Assistant, Boise State University Albertson

Library, April 18-29

2016 Podcast Interview with Sean Kheraj, “Episode 51: Has Environmental History Lost Its

Way?” Nature’s Past: Canadian Environmental History Podcast, 27 January (available

at: https://archive.org/download/naturespast51/natures-past51.mp3).

2015 Lecture, “Battling Nature in Korea and Vietnam,” recorded by C-SPAN for “American

History TV: Lectures in History” program; aired September 5, available online at

http://www.c-span.org/video/?325235-1/disucssion-battling-nature-korea-vietnam

2015 Co-Leader, Field Trip to Antietam National Military Park and Harpers Ferry National

Historical Park, American Society for Environmental History, March 21

2014-

2015

Lecture, “Wilderness Considered: Readings Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the

Wilderness Act,” Idaho Humanities Council

• Hailey, January 29, 2014

• Idaho Falls, April 22, 2014

• Boise, September 2 and October 9, 2014

• Twin Falls, February 10, 2015

2013 Lecture, “Korea’s DMZ: Negotiating Hope in Dangerous Times,” Pacific Northwest

Rotary Convention, May 18

2013 Lecture, “Korea’s Green Ribbon of Hope,” Boise Rotary Club, Boise, ID, February 19

2013 Lecture, “Lincoln’s Environmental Legacy,” Garden City Library, Garden City, ID,

February 12

2013 Lecture, “Environment,” for Boise 150 Celebration Event, “Thinking 150,” Boise City

Department of Art and History and Idaho Humanities Council, Boise, February 8

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2012-

2013

Lecture, “Choosing Sides: The Origins and Expectations of the American Civil War,”

for “Making Sense of the Civil War Reading Program,” Idaho Humanities Council

• Boise, October 23, 2012

• Hailey, January 31, 2013

• Twin Falls, October 25, 2013

2012 “Behind the Lines: An Interview with Lisa Brady,” The Civil War Monitor: A New Look

at America’s Greatest Conflict; aired October 19 (available at:

http://www.civilwarmonitor.com/behind-the-lines/an-interview-with-lisa-brady)

2012 Lecture Series, “An Environmental History of Food Lecture Series,” Osher Life Long

Learning Institute, Boise, ID, January 10-31

2011 Lecture, “The Blue, the Gray, and the Green: Environmental History and the American

Civil War,” Pioneer Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Boise, ID,

September 14

2011 Lecture, “Idaho and the West: An Environmental History of Water,” U.S. Corps of

Engineers Emerging Leaders Seminar, Boise, ID, March 22

2011 Lecture, “Why the Grass is So Green at Shiloh: The U.S. Civil War from an

Environmental Perspective,” Fettuccine Forum, Boise, ID, February 3

2010 Lecture, “Korea’s War: An Environmental History of a Most Uncivil War,” Idaho

Council for History Education, Boise, ID, October 7-8

2010 Lecture, “Environmental History, War, and the Promise of Peace in the DMZ,”

Wolgye Digital & Cultural Library, Seoul, Korea, May 22

2009 Keynote Address: “Don’t Fence Me In!” Island Park Historical Society Annual Meeting,

Island Park, ID, June 13

2009 “Lincoln’s Environmental Legacy,” Jerome Public Library, Jerome, ID, March 26

2009 Keynote Address: “Rachel Carson Was Only the Most Famous: Women Working

Toward Better Environments,” Women’s History Month Banquet, Mountain Home,

ID, March 7

2008 Lead Scholar, Teacher Institute: “A Word for Nature: Exploring Environmental

Literature,” Idaho Humanities Council

2008 Lecture, “Developing a Sense of Place through Environmental History,” Idaho Council

for History Education, Boise, ID, October 2-3

2008 Lecture, “Voices from the Spring: Rachel Carson and Environmental Literature,” Idaho

Humanities Council Teacher Institute, “A Word for Nature,” Caldwell, ID, July 12-16

2007-

2009

State Scholar, “Between Fences,” a program sponsored by the Idaho Humanities Council

and the Smithsonian Institution’s Rural Initiatives Program. Duties included giving

keynote address at each host site:

• Mullan Public Library, Mullan, ID, September 19

• Coeur d’Alene Public Library, Coeur d’Alene, ID, November 20

• Twin Falls Public Library, Twin Falls, ID, January 6

• South Bannock County Historical Center, Lava Hot Springs, ID, February 17

• Salmon Arts Council, Salmon, ID, April 4

• The Community Library, Ketchum, ID, June 18

2007 Lecture, “Turning Points in U.S. Environmental History: Connecting Past and Present,”

Idaho Council for History Education, Boise, ID, October 4-5

2007 Organizer, Public lecture by Dr. Martin Marty, “Everyone Gets in on the Act:

Connecting Faiths and the Environment,” Boise State University, May 10

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2007 Lecture, “A Failed Revolution? Women’s Experiences in and Expectations of the

Revolution,” Daughters of the American Revolution, Nampa, ID, January 31

2005 Lecture, “Tsunami: A Global Environmental History Perspective,” Terror from the Sea

Series, Boise State University, February 28

2005 Lecture, “The American Civil War and the Spirit of 1776,” Sons of the American

Revolution, Boise, ID, January 24

Media Interviews

2019 Email interview with Voice of America, Korean Service, on UNESCO proposal to

protect the Korean DMZ, November 23

2017 “How the Cold War Boosted Conservation,” on “The State of Things,” North Carolina

Public Radio; aired October 11 (available at: http://wunc.org/post/how-cold-war-

boosted-conservation)

2014 “50 Years of Wilderness,” part of “Outdoor Idaho,” Idaho Public Television; aired

December 7 (available at: http://video.idahoptv.org/video/2365383707/)

2014 “Untrammeled: Americans and the Wilderness,” for “BackStory,” produced by the

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities; aired September 12 (available at:

http://backstoryradio.org/shows/untrammeled-2/)

2013 “Making History,” BBC 4; aired August 20 (available at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b038c7bn).

2013 “Gettysburg and Vicksburg Critical Battles over Resources,” Boise State Update, July 1

(available at: http://news.boisestate.edu/update/2013/07/01/gettysburg-and-vicksburg-

critical-battles-over-resources/)

2013 “DMZ Peace Park,” on tbs eFM “This Morning,” Seoul, Korea; aired May 20 (available

at: http://thismorning.iblug.com/index/j)

2012 “Boise State seeks to redefine ‘well-educated’,” Idaho Statesman, September 27

2009 “Abraham Lincoln’s Legacy,” Dialogue, Idaho Public Television; aired February 12

(available at: http://idahoptv.org/dialogue/diaShowPage.cfm?versionID=180369)

2008 “Land use and Conservation Easements,” The Arbiter (BSU)

2008 “Green History Comes to Boise,” The Arbiter (BSU)

2007 “Global Warming,” Channel 2 News (CBS affiliate)

2007 “Idaho Quietly Assumes Control over Grizzlies,” Idaho Statesman

2005 “There are faculty who think we are crazy for doing this,” Idaho Statesman

2005 “Bridging Living and Learning,” The Arbiter (BSU)

2005 “Terror from the Sea,” broadcast on Boise Public Radio (KBSU), 91.5 FM (NPR)

Webinars

2021 Invited Panelist, “Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Webinar,” Micron

Corporation, May 24

2013 With Leslie Madsen-Brooks, “B Mobile at the Program Level: Integration of Mobile

Learning Across an Academic Program,” National Series through Boise State

University’s Mobile Learning Initiative, April 11

Lectures and Panel Presentations to University and School Groups

2014 “Environmental History and the Civil War,” Renaissance High School, Meridian, ID,

November 3

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2014 Panel Discussant on North Korea, Jayu North Korean Human Rights Film Festival,

Boise State University, April 29

2014 “Why the Grass is So Green at Shiloh: The US Civil War in Environmental

Perspective,” Eagle High School History Club, April 3

2013 “Social Media in the Classroom,” Academic Technologies Workshop, Boise State

University, September 12

2013 “Environmental History,” Teacher Workshop on Environmental Studies, Boise State,

May 24

2013 “Mobile Learning at the Program Level: Experience from the Field,” Mobile Learning

Summer Institute, May 23

2013 “Introduction to Evernote,” Mobile Learning Summer Institute, Boise State University,

May 20

2013 “The Environmental Costs and Benefits of War,” Earth Week Series, Boise State

University, April 17

2013 “Westward Expansion and Nature,” Village Public Charter School, Boise, February 21

2011 “The Nature of War and Peace: An Environmental History,” Renaissance High School,

Boise, ID, April 26

2011 “The Green Ribbon of Hope: Korea’s DMZ and the Fate of Biodiversity,” Earth Week

Series, Boise State University, April 21

2010 “Rachel Carson and her Legacy,” Capital High School, Boise, ID, October 4

2008 “Writing Nature: The Role of Literature in Environmental History,” English Majors

Association, Boise State University, October 13

2008 “Troubled Waters: Environmental Justice and the Search for Clean Water,” Civic

Leadership Residential College Lecture Series, Boise State University, April 29

2008 “Ecological History,” Centennial High School, Boise, ID, March 13

2008 “The Nature of History: Introduction to Environmental History,” Bishop Kelley High

School, Boise, ID, February 7

2008 “The Climate of History: Shaping the Future by Looking to the Past,” Focus the Nation

Series, Boise State University, January 30

2007 “Water, Water Everywhere: A Global History of Water-Related Disasters,” Civil

Engineering 497: Natural Disaster Preparedness Planning, April 10

2007 “Earth Day: Then, Now, Tomorrow,” Earth Week Series, Boise State, April 21

2007 “From Hats to Humvees: Canada’s Natural Resource History and Its Environmental

Implications,” Canada Week Series, Boise State University, April 3

2006 Moderator and Organizer, “Sharing Borders, Sharing Resources: Canada-US Energy and

Environment Issues,” Canada Week Series, Boise State University, April 3

2006 Organizer and Panelist, “Environmental Justice,” Natural Rights, Human Rights, &

Environmental Change Panel, Martin Luther King, Jr. Human Rights Week, Boise

State University, January 19

2006 “Ecological Indian,” Distorted Images: Indian Romance, Stereotype, and Exclusion in

the United States Panel, Martin Luther King, Jr. Human Rights Week, Boise State

University, January 19

2005 “Environment and Human Rights: A Historical Perspective,” Point of View Conference,

Boise State University, November 9

2005 “The Nature of War and Peace: An Environmental History,” Friends of Anthropology

Series, Boise State University, April 4

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2004 “Reel v. Real: Glory,” Phi Alpha Theta, Boise State University, October 16

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Historical Association American Society for Environmental History

Association for Asian Studies Association for East Asian Environmental History

European Society for Environmental History Forest History Society

Organization for American Historians