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William J. Cronon Education PhD, Yale University, 1990 D.Phil., Oxford University, 1981
Research Areas
Current Research Completing a book entitled "Saving Nature in Time: The Past and the Future of Environmentalism," based on the Wiles Lectures at Queen's University in Belfast, on contributions environmental history can make to contemporary environmental politics. Working on a local history of Portage, Wisconsin (Frederick Jackson Turner's home town), to explore ways of integrating environmental and social historical methods with non-traditional narrative literary forms, book to be published by W. W. Norton & Co. Working on Life on the American Land: A Commonplace Book, an anthology of first-person accounts of past landscapes of the United States and the lives people have lived on them, to be published by W. W. Norton & Co. "The Riddle of the Apostle Islands: How Do You Manage a Wilderness Full of Human Stories?" Orion (May-June 2003), 36-42.(read) Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, 20th anniversary edition, Hill & Wang, 2003. "Why the Past Matters," Wisconsin Magazine of History, 84:1 (Autumn 2000), p.2-13. Awarded the William Best Hesseltine Award for the best article published in the Wisconsin Magazine of History in 2000-2001. "Only Connect...: The Goals of a Liberal Education," The American Scholar, (Autumn, 1998), p.73-80. "The Uses of Environmental History" (Presidential Address, American Society for Environmental History), Environmental History Review, 17:3 (Fall 1993), p.1-22.
"Telling Tales on Canvas: Landscapes of Frontier Change," In: Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts: Transforming Visions of the American West (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992). "A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative," Journal of American History 78:4 (March, 1992), p.1347-1376. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, W. W. Norton, 1991. (Awarded the Bancroft Prize, Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, and one of three nominees for the Pulitzer Prize in History.)
Courses Taught
Other Activities
Awards and Honors
Graduate Students Lynne Heasley, A Thousand Pieces of Paradise: Property, Nature, and Community in the Kickapoo Valley (PhD) Marsha Weisiger, Diné Bikéyah: Environment, Cultural Identity, and Gender in Navajo Country (PhD) Eric Olmanson, Romantics, Scientists, Boosters, and the Making of the Chequamegon Bay Region on the South Shore of Lake Superior, 1820-1920's (PhD) Zoltán Grossman, Unlikely Alliances: Treaty Conflicts and Environmental Cooperation Between Native American and Rural White Communities (PhD) William Philpott, Consuming Colorado Landscapes, Leisure, and the Tourist Way of Life (PhD). Thomas Andrews, The Road to Ludlow: Work, Environment, and Industrialization in Southern Colorado, 1870-1914 (PhD). Blake Harrison, Tourism and the Reworking of Rural Vermont, 1880-1980 (PhD) Joseph F. Cullon, Colonial Shipwrights and Their World: Men, Women, and Markets in Early New England (PhD) Contact Information William Cronon's Website: Office Hours: Mailing Address:
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Frederick
Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of
Recent
Publications
Uncommon
Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature, W. W. Norton, 1995.
