Award-Winning Writer, historian Bill Cronon, to speak at NSA
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Award-Winning Writer, historian Bill Cronon, to speak at NSA
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March 28, 2014
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Award-winning writer, historian Bill Cronon to speak at NSA
Dr. Bill Cronon, one of the world’s leading authorities on environmental history and past president of the American Historical Association, will lecture at New Saint Andrews College’s Disputatio, Friday, March 28, at the Nuart Theater in downtown Moscow at 3 p.m. His lecture, entitled “Telling Tales on Canvas: Landscapes of Frontier Change,” is free and open to the public.
A Pulitzer Prize nominee and winner of the Bancroft and Francis Parkman Prizes, Dr. Cronon will also hold a workshop on non-fiction writing earlier in the day at New Saint Andrews for students from the College as well as from the University of Idaho and Washington State University.
The Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will also make a presentation titled “Time, Memory and Storytelling in the Making of an American Place” in Pullman on Wednesday, March 26, at 6:30 p.m. at the WSU Compton Union Building Auditorium. On Thursday, March 27, Dr. Cronon will speak at the University of Idaho Commons Whitewater Room from 3:30-5:30 p.m. on the topic of “The Personal Voice of Scholarly Writing.”
Dr. Cronon served as the president of the American Historical Association from January 2012 to January 2013. He holds a Ph.D. in American History from Yale University (1990), a D.Phil. in British Urban and Economic History from Oxford University (1981), an M.Phil. (1980) and an M.A. (1979) in American History both from Yale University. He was a tenured professor of history at Yale University until 1992, when he took his current professorship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He is the author of several award-winning works, including Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (New York: Hill & Wang, 1983; 20th anniversary edition published with new afterword, 2003), winner of the Francis Parkman Prize (1984), and Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1991) winner of the Bancroft Prize (1992) and one of three nominees for the Pulitzer Prize in History that year.
He also served as the editor of the Weyerhauser Environmental History Book Series, published by the University of Washington Press, for about 20 years. He has been both a Fulbright Scholar to Iceland (2000) and a Rhodes Scholar (1976-78). He also appeared in Ken Burn’s PBS documentary National Parks: America’s Best Idea.
Dr. Bill Cronon, one of the world’s leading authorities on environmental history and past president of the American Historical Association, will lecture at New Saint Andrews College’s Disputatio, Friday, March 28, at the Nuart Theater in downtown Moscow at 3 p.m. His lecture, entitled “Telling Tales on Canvas: Landscapes of Frontier Change,” is free and open to the public.
A Pulitzer Prize nominee and winner of the Bancroft and Francis Parkman Prizes, Dr. Cronon will also hold a workshop on non-fiction writing earlier in the day at New Saint Andrews for students from the College as well as from the University of Idaho and Washington State University.
The Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will also make a presentation titled “Time, Memory and Storytelling in the Making of an American Place” in Pullman on Wednesday, March 26, at 6:30 p.m. at the WSU Compton Union Building Auditorium. On Thursday, March 27, Dr. Cronon will speak at the University of Idaho Commons Whitewater Room from 3:30-5:30 p.m. on the topic of “The Personal Voice of Scholarly Writing.”
Dr. Cronon served as the president of the American Historical Association from January 2012 to January 2013. He holds a Ph.D. in American History from Yale University (1990), a D.Phil. in British Urban and Economic History from Oxford University (1981), an M.Phil. (1980) and an M.A. (1979) in American History both from Yale University. He was a tenured professor of history at Yale University until 1992, when he took his current professorship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He is the author of several award-winning works, including Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (New York: Hill & Wang, 1983; 20th anniversary edition published with new afterword, 2003), winner of the Francis Parkman Prize (1984), and Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1991) winner of the Bancroft Prize (1992) and one of three nominees for the Pulitzer Prize in History that year.
He also served as the editor of the Weyerhauser Environmental History Book Series, published by the University of Washington Press, for about 20 years. He has been both a Fulbright Scholar to Iceland (2000) and a Rhodes Scholar (1976-78). He also appeared in Ken Burn’s PBS documentary National Parks: America’s Best Idea.
