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On leave academic year 2007-2008

Kathryn Morse
Associate Professor of History
Axinn Center at Starr Library 240
Phone: 802.443.2436
Email: kmorse@middlebury.edu
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Degrees, Specializations & Interests:
B.A., Yale University, 1988; M.A., Utah State University, 1992; Ph.D., University of Washington, 1997.

Environmental History and
American History

Areas of Specialization

Environmental and U.S. History, particularly History of the American West; also U.S. labor and cultural history in the late 19th century; Nature in American culture; American Western film, art, and literature.

Books Published

The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush (University of Washington Press, 2003).

Courses Taught

HI 222, Introduction to Environmental History; HI 203, 204, United States History; HI 374, History of the American West; HI 406, Readings in American History: American Environmental History; ENVS 0401 Environmental Studies Senior Seminar