Marsha Weisiger
Department of
History
New Mexico
State University
PO Box 30001, MSC 3H
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
Office: (505) 646-4037 e-mail: mailto:mweisige@nmsu.edu Fax: (505) 646-8148
Spring 2008
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Thesis Students
Assistant Professor of History
Creating Connections Themes:
- Borders, Boundaries, and Frontiers
- Environment, Ecology, and Culture
Education:
- Ph.D (History), University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2000
- MA (History), University of Oklahoma, 1991
- BA (History), Arizona State University, 1978
- BA (Anthropology), Arizona State University, 1978
Research Interests:
- Environmental history of the Southwest borderlands.
Current Projects:
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Sheep Dreams: Environment, Identity, and Gender in Navajo Country, an environmental, cultural, and social history of Diné pastoralism (in progress, University of Washington Press)
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Upcoming: an environmental and intellectual history of “wildness” along Western rivers
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Upcoming: essays on New Age environmentalism
Courses Taught at NMSU:
- Recent American History
- Making the American West
- American West in Popular Culture
- Plague, Plunder, and Preservation: American Environmental History
- Southwestern Environmental History
- Historic Preservation
- Graduate Reading Seminar: History and Memory
- Graduate Reading Seminar: Environment, Ecology, and Culture
- Graduate Research Seminar: Land, Nature, and Culture
Major Publications:
- Buildings of Wisconsin (forthcoming, Center for American Places)
- Land of Plenty: Oklahomans in the Cotton Fields of Arizona, 1933-1942 (University of Oklahoma Press, 1995), winner of the Angie Debo Prize
Major Awards and Grants:
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship, 2004-2005
- National Endowment for the Humanities Focus Grant, 2003
- Carl B. and Florence E. King Fellow, Clements Center for Southwestern Studies, Southern Methodist University, 2000-2001
- Environmental Leadership Program Fellow, 2000-2002
- Star Fellowship, Environmental Protection Agency, 1997-2000
- American Fellow, American Association of University Women, 1997-98
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