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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 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: Academic: Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Idaho, July 2003-present 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) Instructor, History, Communications and Social Sciences Division, Everett Community College, January 2000-August 2001 (part-time) Teaching Associate/Teaching Associate/Research Assistant, Department of History, Arizona State University, 1996-1999
Administrative: Director, Institute for Pacific Northwest Studies, University of Idaho, September 2006-present
Non-Academic: Writer, ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, California, July 2000-December 2000
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS: Books: The Environmental Justice: William O. Douglas and American Conservation. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, under contract, planned February 2009 publication date]. United States West Coast: An Environmental History. Nature and Human Societies Series, ed. Mark Stoll (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2007).
Edited Books (in-progress): Idaho’s Place: Rethinking the Gem State’s Past. [multiple authors; submission expected Winter 2008-09]
Journal Articles: “From Virgin Forest to Modern Farm: Picturing Ecological Change in Northern Idaho’s Cutover Land.” Idaho Yesterdays [forthcoming February 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.
Encyclopedia Entries: “Douglas, William O.” The Oregon Encyclopedia. Oregon Historical Society and Portland State University. Online, forthcoming. With Michael Paul Nelson. “North America.” Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy. Edited by J. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman. Florence, KY: Cengage, forthcoming. “Douglas, William O.” Encyclopedia for American Environmental History. New York: Facts on File, forthcoming. “Douglas, William O.” Encyclopedia of Global Environmental History. New York: Routledge, 2003.
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): Panelist, “Historians and Sustainability,” 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: Major Areas of Specialization: Environmental History History of the North American West
Secondary Areas/Fields in Development: Modern U.S. History History of Science Immigration and Ethnicity Exploration
Courses Taught: American Environmental History History of the American West Twentieth-Century American West Pacific Northwest History Exploration and Empire Science and Nature in U.S. History America in the Sixties Recent American History: United States, 1917-1945 Early American Cultural History Paths to the American Present Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States The Earth and Our Place On It (first-year interdisciplinary course to be taught Fall 2008-Spring 2009) Introduction to U.S. History I Introduction to U.S. History II Historian’s Craft Rebellious Americans: Challenging National Narrative in Early America (interdisciplinary, team-taught course with English professor)
Student Advising: Undergraduate: Currently have approximately forty undergraduate advisees Have advised four Environmental Science students for their senior theses
Graduate: Have chaired two MA (History) graduate committees Am chairing six 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 MA (Anthropology), and one MS (Conservation Social Sciences) graduate committees
SERVICE: University Committee Assignments (Selected) Strategic Action Plan Implementation Team, Scholarly and Creative Activity, Spring 2007-present Core Faculty, Environmental Science Program, Fall-2006-present Steering Committee, Sustainable Idaho Initiative, Fall 2006-Spring 2007 Tenure and Promotion Committee, College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences, University of Idaho, Fall 2005 Search Committees, University of Idaho and Shoreline Community College Departmental Sub-committees, University of Idaho and Shoreline Community College
Professional Service (Selected): Organizational Service: H-Environment List Editor, January 2006-present 2008 American Society for Environmental History Local Arrangements Co-Chair, Spring 2005-2008 2006 Pacific Northwest History Conference Program Committee 2006 American Society for Environmental History Program Committee, Fall 2004-Spring 2006
Referee/Publication Service: Content Advisor (book), Editorial Directions, Inc. 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
Conference Service: Chair, “Shifting Landscapes, Shifting Perceptions: The Pacific Northwest across the U.S.-Canada Border,” panel at the American Society for Environmental History Conference, Boise, ID, March 2008. Chair and Discussant, “Myths, Mythmakers, and Mythology,” panel at the 58th Annual Pacific Northwest History Conference, Boise, Idaho, April 2005. Chair and Discussant, “Managing Communities, Wilderness, and Arborglyphs: The Multiple Roles of the U.S. Forest Service,” panel at the American Society for Environmental History Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, April 2004. Discussant, “Environmental History Panel,” Idaho History Conference, Twin Falls, Idaho, March 2004. Chair, “Film Makers’ Tales,” panel at the 56th Annual Pacific Northwest History Conference, Bellingham, Washington, April 2003. Chair, “Lived Environments” panel at Pacific Northwest Contours: Complicating and Questioning Notions about Region and Regional History, November 2002.
Workshops, Seminars, Invited Lectures, etc. (selected): “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. “William O. Douglas, a Northwest Sense of Place, and Regional Environmentalism,” Sense of Place: Time, Memory, and Imagination, University of Idaho Interdisciplinary Humanities Colloquium Series, Moscow, Idaho, September 2003. “Overview of U.S. Immigration History,” Multicultural Week, Shoreline Community College, Shoreline, Washington, April 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. Panelist, “Reflections on the Events of September 11, 2001,” Shoreline Community College, Shoreline, Washington, October 2001.
HONORS AND GRANTS: Honors and Awards (selected): 2006 WHQ article nominated for the Theodore C. Blegen Award (Forest History Society), Alice Hamilton Prize (American Society for Environmental History), and James Madison Prize (Society for History in the Federal Government) 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 2000 WHQ article nominated for the Theodore Blegen Prize (Forest History Society), Alice Hamilton Prize (American Society for Environmental History), and James Madison Prize (Society for History in the Federal Government) Arizona Historical Foundation Award for Best Paper on Arizona or the Southwest, 1999 Distinction, Comprehensive Exams, Department of History, 1998
Grants and Contracts Awarded (selected): 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. $2,000. Max Millett Award, 1996. Regents Graduate Scholarship, 1995-97. National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholar, 1994.
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