Affiliations
Earth Sciences
College of Letters and Science
Education
Ph.D., Geography, Syracuse University, 1982
M.A., Geography, Syracuse University, 1979
B.A., Geography, California State University, Northridge, 1977
Research Interests
Cultural and historical geography of the American West; The evolution of the American cultural landscape; Historical cartography.
Selected Intellectual Contributions
Wyckoff, W. (2020), Riding Shotgun with Norman Wallace: Rephotographing the Arizona Landscape, University of New Mexico Press.
Price, M., Lewis, M., Wyckoff, W., and Rowntree, L. (2019), Globalization and Diversity, 6th edition, Pearson.
Wyckoff, W. (2018), Every Word Belongs (intro essay to special issue honoring Ivan Doig), Montana: The Magazine of Western History 68, no. 3, pp. 3-5.
Rowntree, L., Lewis, M., Price, M., and Wyckoff, W. (2017), Diversity Amid Globalization, 7th edition, Pearson.
Wyckoff, W. (2016), Producing Public Geographies: Creating a Field Guide to the Western American Landscape, Historical Geography 44: 2-25.
Wyckoff, W. (2016), Cartography and capitalism: George Clason and the mapping of western American development, 1903-1931, Journal of Historical Geography 52: 48-60.
Wyckoff, W. (2014), How to Read the American West: A Field Guide, University of Washington Press.
Dilsaver, L. and W. Wyckoff, (2009), Failed National Parks in the Last Best Place, Montana The Magazine of Western History 59, 4: 3-24.
Wyckoff, W. (2006), On the Road Again: Montana’s Changing Landscape, University of Washington Press.
Dilsaver, L. and W. Wyckoff, (2005), The Political Geography of National Parks, Pacific Historical Review 74: 237-266.
Wyckoff, W. (1999), Creating Colorado: The Making of a Western American Landscape, 1860-1940, Yale University Press.
Wyckoff, W. and Lary Dilsaver, eds. (1995), The Mountainous West: Explorations in Historical Geography, University of Nebraska Press.
Wyckoff, W. (1988), The Developer’s Frontier: The Making of the Western New York Landscape, Yale University Press.
Selected Awards
Provost’s Distinguished Lecturer, Montana State University, 2020
Chauncy Harris Award, Brigham Young University, 2017
Aubrey Haines Award and Lecture, National Park Service, 2016
Distinguished Historical Geographer Award and Lecture, American Association of Geographers, 2016
Ridgeley Distinguished Lecturer, Illinois State University, 2015
Anna K. Fridley Award for Distinguished Teaching, Montana State University, 2013
Everhart Award (Eastern National Park Association) (with L. Dilsaver), for best peer-reviewed research article on the national parks, 2006
Annaley Naegle Redd Lecture, Brigham Young University, 2004
Cox Award for Creative Scholarship and Teaching, Montana State University, 2003
Text and Academic Authors Award for best new college text in humanities/social sciences, 2001
Burlington Northern Foundation Faculty Achievement Award for Teaching, Montana State University, 1990
Selected Engagement, Outreach, and Service
Chair, Jackson Book Prize Committee, American Association of Geographers, 2018-present
Member, Editorial Board, Montana The Magazine of Western History, 2014-present
Moderator, Montana State Geography Bee, 2018-2019