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Below is a brief vita. For a more detailed c.v. in the official UI format, click here.
ADAM M. SOWARDS
Department of History University of Idaho PO Box 443175 Moscow, ID 83844-3175
asowards@uidaho.edu 208-885-0529 (voice) 208-885-5876 (fax) http://www.class.uidaho.edu/asowards
EDUCATION: Ph.D., Arizona State University, History, 2001 M.A., Arizona State University, History, 1997 B.A., University of Puget Sound, History with Honors, 1995
EXPERIENCE (selected): Academic: Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Idaho [July 2009] Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Idaho, July 2003 [-June 2009] Adjunct Faculty in Environmental Science, Water Resources, Philosophy, and American Studies Instructor, History, Intra-American Studies and Social Sciences Division, Shoreline Community College, January 2001-August 2003 (tenure track) Administrative: Director, Institute for Pacific Northwest Studies, University of Idaho, September 2006-present
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS: Books: The Environmental Justice: William O. Douglas and American Conservation. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2009. United States West Coast: An Environmental History. Nature and Human Societies Series, ed. Mark Stoll Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2007. [Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008] Edited Books (in-progress): Idaho’s Place: Rethinking the Gem State’s Past. [multiple authors; submission expected Summer/Fall 2009] Journal Articles: “From Virgin Forest to Modern Farm: Picturing Ecological Change in Northern Idaho’s Cutover Land.” Idaho Yesterdays [Forthcoming 2009]. “William O. Douglas’s Wilderness Politics: Public Protest and Committees of Correspondence in the Pacific Northwest.” Western Historical Quarterly 37 (Spring 2006): 21-42. “Modern Ahabs in Texas: William O. Douglas and Lone Star Conservation.” Journal of the West. 44 (Fall 2005): 39-46. “Administrative Trials, Environmental Consequences, and the Use of History in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest, 1926-1996.” Western Historical Quarterly 31 (Summer 2000): 189-214. “Reclamation, Ranching and Reservation: Environmental, Cultural, and Governmental Rivalries in Transitional Arizona.” Journal of the Southwest 40 (Autumn 1998): 333-361. Book Chapters: “William O. Douglas: The Environmental Justice.” In The Human Tradition in the American West, ed. Benson Tong and Regan Lutz, 155-170. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2002. Reprinted in The Human Tradition in American: 1865 to the Present, ed. Charles W. Calhoun, 301-316. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, Inc. 2003. “Spiritual Egalitarianism: John Muir’s Religious Environmentalism.” In John Muir in Historical Perspective, ed. Sally M. Miller, 123-136. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1999. Essays: “Challenging ‘Progress’.” In Individuals in History: The Environmental Movement, 1-9. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2008. “From Walden to Global Warming.” In Individuals in History: The Environmental Movement, 11-25. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2008. Review Essays: “Place, Justice, and the Urban Environment in the Pacific Northwest,” Journal of the West 47 (Fall 2008): 84-87. Reviews: I have published approximately twenty-five book and video reviews in the following journals and online resources (arranged alphabetically): American Review of Canadian Studies, Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History, Electronic Green Journal, Environmental History, History: Reviews of New Books, H-Environment, H-SHGAPE, H-Survey, Idaho Yesterdays, Journal of American History, Journal of the West, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, New Mexico Historical Review, Oregon Historical Quarterly, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Society and Natural Resources, Western Historical Quarterly Conference Papers (selected): “Expansive Visions of Nature: Philosophical and Political Musings of William O. Douglas,” The Environment, Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, Moscow, ID, May 2009. “The Columbia River Treaty and the Lessons of History,” Transboundary River Governance in the Face of Uncertainty: The Columbia River Treaty, 2014, University of Idaho College of Law Natural Resource and Environment Symposium, Coeur d’Alene, ID, April 2009. Panelist, “Waters of the West,” Roundtable at Soothing Waters: Tribal Protection and Sovereignty, Native American Law Conference, University of Idaho Law School, Moscow, ID, March 2009. Panelist, “History and Sustainability: Making Environmental History Relevant Inside the Academy,” Roundtable at the American Society for Environmental History, Tallahassee, FL, February 2009. “Jumping Into History: Smokejumpers and the Western Environment,” a paper to be delivered at the American Society for Environmental History, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, February 2007. “William O. Douglas, ‘A Man’s Man’: Masculinity, the Wilderness Frontier, and the 20th-Century West,” a paper delivered at the Western History Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2004. “A Transformation in Understanding: The Cascade Mountains as Known by Natives and Newcomers,” a paper delivered at the 52nd Annual Pacific Northwest History Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, April 1999. “City and Country: Environmental Interactions between a Southwestern Metropolis and Its Rural Hinterland,” a paper delivered at the North American Interdisciplinary Conference on Environment and Community, Reno, Nevada, February 1998. “‘When the Cattle Came the Grass Went’: Ranching in an Arizona National Forest,” a paper delivered at the 39th Annual Western Social Science Association Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 1997. “Spiritual and Environmental Egalitarianism: John Muir’s Religious Ideology,” a paper delivered at the 1996 California History Institute, Stockton, California, April 1996.
TEACHING (selected): Major Areas of Specialization: Environmental History History of the North American West Secondary Areas/Fields in Development: Exploration History of Science Immigration and Ethnicity Modern U.S. History Student Advising: Undergraduate: Currently have approximately thirty undergraduate advisees Have advised four Environmental Science students for their senior theses Graduate: Have chaired three MA (History) graduate committees Am chairing five MA (History), one MS (Environmental Science), and one PhD (Environmental Science) graduate committees Have served on four PhD (History), six MA (4 History, 2 English), two MFA (Creative Writing), and two MS (1 Conservation Social Sciences, 1 Environmental Science) graduate committees Am serving on two PhD (Environmental Science), one PhD (Conservation Social Science), one MA (History), one MA (Anthropology), and one MS (Conservation Social Sciences) graduate committees
SERVICE (selected): University Committee Assignments Strategic Action Plan Implementation Team, Scholarly and Creative Activity, Spring 2007-present Core Faculty, Environmental Science Program, Fall-2006-present Professional Service (Selected): Organizational/Extramural Service: Publications Committee, American Society for Environmental History, Spring 2009-present Humanities Advisor, “Currents of Change: Humans and Nature on the Columbia River,” Interpreting America’s Historic Places, National Endowment for the Humanities, Planning Grant Proposal, Fall 2008-present H-Environment List Editor, January 2006-present Representative, Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium, Fall 2006-present 2008 American Society for Environmental History Local Arrangements Co-Chair, Spring 2005-2008 Referee/Publication Service: Manuscript Review (article), Radical History Review, 2009 Manuscript Proposal Reviewer (two-volume book), Island Press, 2009 Content Advisor (book), Editorial Directions, Inc., 2008 Manuscript Reviewer (book), University of Oklahoma Press, 2007 Manuscript Reviewer (article), Environmental History, 2006 Second Edition Reviewer (book), Oxford University Press, 2006 Manuscript Reviewer (article), Western Historical Quarterly, 2004 Manuscript Reviewer (article), Idaho Yesterdays, 2004 Manuscript Reviewer (book), Harcourt, 2004 Manuscript Reviewer (book), University of Arizona Press, 2002 Workshops, Seminars, Invited Lectures, etc. (selected): “Narrating Nature: Telling Stories about the Columbia River,” University of Idaho Interdisciplinary Colloquium, March 2009 “Competing Perceptions of Fire,” University of Idaho Core Discovery 111, Fire, Myth and Mankind, Guest Lecture, Fall 2005 “Irrigated Landscapes in the American West: An Introduction to Environmental History,” University of Idaho, Environmental Science 501, Guest Lecture, Spring 2005 “Wilderness and Democracy in Pacific Northwest History,” University of Idaho Department of Conservation Social Sciences Seminar Series, Moscow, Idaho, April 2005. Panelist, “Pasts and Places: Topics in Pacific Northwest History,” Washington State University Department of History Colloquium Series, Pullman, Washington, September 2003. “The Great White North? An Overview of Multiculturalism and Racism in the Pacific Northwest,” Multicultural Washington State Lecture Series, Shoreline Community College, Shoreline, Washington, February 2002.
HONORS AND GRANTS (selected): Honors and Awards: Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008, for United States West Coast: An Environmental History University of Idaho Alumni Association Award for Faculty Excellence, 2008 Fellow, International Canadian Summer Institute, Summer 2004 Bert M. Fireman Award, Western History Association, for the best graduate student article to appear in the Western Historical Quarterly, 2000 Arizona Historical Foundation Award for Best Paper on Arizona or the Southwest, 1999 Grants and Contracts Awarded: Alfred D. Bell Travel Grant, Forest History Society, 2007 Seed Grant, University of Idaho, 2006-07 Small Travel Grant, University of Idaho, Spring 2006 Canadian Studies Program Enhancement Grant, Foreign Affairs Canada, 2006 John Calhoun Smith Memorial Fund Grant for the project, “The Pacific West: An Environmental History,” 2005 John Calhoun Smith Memorial Fund Grant for the project, “An Environmental History of the Palouse, 1870-1930,” 2004 Hill Research Grant, James J. Hill Reference Library, 1999.
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