Current PhD Students
Michael Fox
Research Interests:
Museum History
Betsy Gaines-Quammen
Research Interests:
Religion and Environmental History
Robert Gardner
Research Interests:
Environment and Technology
Draft Dissertation Abstract:
Technological Forests: Engineering Nature with Tree Planting on the Great Plains, 1870-1942
Cheryl Hendry
Research Interests:
Environmental History and US West
Jared Infanger
Research Interests:
American West
Jerry Jessee
Research Interests:
Conservation and Environmental History
Natalie Scheidler
Research Interests: US Feminist Historian
Paul Sivitz
Research Interests:
Dissemination of Knowledge and Institutionalization of Knowledge
Draft Dissertation Abstract:
Communication and Community:
Moving Scientific Knowledge in Britain and America, 1732-1782
Diane Smith
Research Interests:
National parks, zoos, and museums; Wildlife and conservation biology; Women in science; Late 19th-early 20th century models of informal learning and education
Draft Dissertation Abstract:
“Animals and Artifacts: A History of Animal Exchanges and Displays in Yellowstone National Park and the Nation’s Leading Zoos 1872-1929”
Bradley Snow
Research Interests:
Environmental and Social history of the Silver Valley region of northern Idaho
Draft Disseration Abstract:
Fully Leaded: Work, Bodies, and Environment in Three Rocky Mountain Smelter Communities
Wendy Zirngibl
Research Interests:
Conservation and Yellowstone National Park
Draft Dissertation Abstract:
Conundrum of the Wildlife: Wolves, Elk, People, and the Cultural Ecology of Greater Yellowstone
Daniel Zizzamia
Research Interests:
Environmental History, the History of Science, the History of Technology.
Draft Dissertation Abstract:
