Brian Allen Drake

BRIAN ALLEN DRAKE 148 Falling Shoals Drive Athens, Georgia [email protected] (786)764-0044

CURRENT POSITION: Senior Lecturer Department of History, University of Georgia

EDUCATION: The University of Kansas – Lawrence Ph.D. in U.S. environmental history Dissertation: “The Unnatural State: Conservatives, Libertarians, and the Postwar American Environmental Movement” Advisor: Professor Donald E. Worster

The University of Georgia – Athens Master of Arts in U.S. History Thesis: “Saving the Dammed: Glen Canyon and the Rise of Environmentalism” Advisor: Professor Lester D. Stephens

The University of Michigan – Ann Arbor Bachelor of Liberal Arts in History

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

Loving Nature, Fearing the State: American Environmentalism and Antigovernment Politics before Reagan (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013), in the Weyerhaeuser Environmental Series

Editor, The Blue, The Gray, and the Green: Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015), in the UnCivil Wars series

Articles:

“The Skeptical Environmentalist: Senator Barry Goldwater and Federal Environmentalism,” Environmental History 15 (October 2010): 587-611.

“Waving ‘a Bough of Challenge’: Forestry on the Kansas Grasslands, 1868-1915,” Great Plains Quarterly 23 (Winter 2003): 19-34.

“Reflections in Black Water: Wilderness Images of the Okefenokee Swamp,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 83 (Fall 1999): 565-82. Brian Allen Drake – Curriculum Vitae

Book Chapters:

FORTHCOMING: “The Watershed of War: Environmental History and the ‘Big Civil War,’ for Mark Hersey and Ted Steinberg, eds., A Field on Fire: Essays in Honor of Donald Worster (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, expected 2017)

“Green Goldwater: Barry Goldwater, Federal Environmentalism, and the Transformation of Modern Conservatism,” in Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, ed., Barry Goldwater and the Remaking of the American Political Landscape (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2013), 214- 37.

Book Reviews:

FORTHCOMING: Review of Stephen Haycox, Battleground Alaska: Fighting Federal Power in America’s Last Wilderness (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2016), for American Historical Review

FORTHCOMING: Review of Paul Sutter, Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies: Providence Canyons and the Soils of the South (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015), for Georgia Historical Quarterly

FORTHCOMING: Review of Cody Ferguson, This is Our Land: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Late Twentieth Century (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2015), for Journal of Southern History

Review of Adam W. Dean, An Agrarian Republic: Farming, Antislavery Politics, and Nature Parks in the Civil War Era (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2015), for The Civil War Monitor, http://www.civilwarmonitor.com/book-shelf/dean-an-agrarian-republic-2015-2

Review of Mark Fiege, The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012), for Environmental Values, http://www.erica.demon.co.uk/EV/reviews/99_Fiege.pdf

Review of Adam Rome, The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation (New York: Hill and Wang, 2013), for Environmental History 19 (July 2014): 578-80

Review of Ted Steinberg, Down to Earth: Nature’s Role in American History, 2nd ed., (Oxford University Press, 2009), Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 6(2): 238-9.

Review of Jack Dempsey, Michigan and the Civil War: a Great and Bloody Sacrifice (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2011), for The Civil War Monitor, January 11, 2012, http://www.civilwarmonitor.com/book-shelf/dempsey-michigan-and-the-civil-war-2011

Review of John Hausdoerffer, Catlin’s Lament: Indians, Manifest Destiny, and the Ethics of Nature (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009), Journal of American Ethnic History 31 (Fall 2011): 85-7.

Review of Edmund Burke III and Kenneth Pomeranz, eds., The Environment and World History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009), Organization & Environment 23 (September 2010): 369-71.

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Review of I.G. Simmons, Global Environmental History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), Organization & Environment 22 (September 2009): 357-8.

Review of David Louter, Windshield Wilderness: Cars, Roads and Nature in Washington’s National Parks (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006), Journal of the West 46 (Summer 2007): 87-8.

Review essay – “Science, Bureaucracy, and the South’s Red Menace,” on Joshua Blu Buhs, The Fire Ant Wars (University of Chicago Press, 2004), for H-Net’s H-Environment listserve, December 2. 2005, http://www.h-net.org/review/showrev.cgi?path=135501139855138

Review essay -- “Honoring the Prophet of Conservation: George Perkins Marsh’s Man and Nature,” for H-Net’s H-Environment listserve, February 4, 2004. http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=142661079242094

Review of David McCally, The Everglades: An Environmental History (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999), Georgia Historical Quarterly 84 (Spring 2000): 182-4.

Miscellaneous:

Response – H-Environment Roundtable Review Vol. 5, No. 7 (August 2015), published at https://networks.h-net.org/drake-loving-nature-fearing-state-roundtable-review-vol-5-no-7-2015

CONFERENCES:

The Future of Civil War History: Looking Beyond the 150th, Gettysburg College/National Park Service, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, March 16, 2013. Invited Roundtable Moderator: “Bridging the Nature/Culture Divide: Interpreting the Environmental History of the War.”

Annual Meeting of the Georgia Association of Historians, St. Simon’s Island, Georgia, February 8, 2013. Invited commenter: “Economics, Environment, and Education in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century South.”

Atlanta Graduate Student Conference in U.S. History, Emory University, February 17-18, 2012. Invited session commenter: “Politics, Energy, and the Environment” and panelist: “Pedagogy Roundtable: Teaching U.S. History in a Global Context.”

The Blue, the Gray, and the Green: Towards an Environmental History of the Civil War, University of Georgia, October 20-22, 2011. Conference co-organizer and session commenter: “It’s Raining, Men” http://wsw.uga.edu/files/2011UnCivilWars.pdf

Annual meeting of the American Society for Environmental History, Tallahassee, Florida, February 25-March 1, 2009. Paper: “Extremism in the Defense of Nature? Senator Barry Goldwater and the Environmental State.”

The Georgia Workshop in the History of Agriculture and the Environment¸ University of Georgia, February 29, 2008. Paper: “Natural Rights, Or, Finding Environmentalism in the Strangest Places.”

Second International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, Morelia, Mexico, January 18, 2008. Paper: “Enemy of the State: Edward Abbey and the Environmental Critique of High Modernism”

Annual meeting of the American Society for Environmental History, St. Paul, Minnesota, March 30, 2006. Paper: “Chickenshit Liberals, Kneepad Conservatives, and Totalitarian States: Into the Political Wilderness with Edward Abbey.”

Annual meeting of the American Society for Environmental History, Victoria, British Columbia, April 3, 2004. Paper: “Purity of Essence: Antifluoridationists, Conservatism, and the Legacy of Silent Spring.”

Missouri Graduate Conference on History 2002 - Grassroots America: Social Action and the Environment, University of Missouri-Columbia, March 9, 2002. Paper: “Precious Bodily Fluids: Fluoridation and Environmentalism on the American Far Right.”

Hall Center Nature and Culture Colloquium, University of Kansas, November 30, 2001. Paper: “Our Precious Bodily Fluids: Fluoridation, Silent Spring, and the American Right.”

Annual meeting of the American Society for Environmental History, Durham, North Carolina, March 28-April 1, 2001. Poster: “Challenging the Prairie: Kansas Forestry 1868-1915.”

Mid-American Conference on History, University of Kansas, September 21, 2000. Paper: “Waving a Bough of Challenge: Forestry and the Limits of Nature in Kansas, 1868-1915.” This paper was also presented at the Hall Center Nature and Culture Colloquium, University of Kansas, August 25, 2000.

INVITED TALKS/PANELS:

“The Watershed of War: Environmental History and the ‘Big Civil War,’” Riches of Nature, Limits of Nature: Donald Worster and Environmental History, Ecological History Research Center, School of History, Renmin University, Beijing, China, June 29, 2016

“A Conservative Naturally: Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater and the Decline and Fall of American 'Antistatist' Environmentalism, 1940-2000,” Klubi Lecture in North American Studies, Department of World Cultures, University of Helsinki, Finland, March 11, 2015

“Barry Goldwater: Conscience of a Conservationist – the Unexpected Story of a Conservative Green,” Kansas City Public Library, July 16, 2014. http://www.kclibrary.org/event/barry-goldwater-conscience-conservationist http://www.c-span.org/video/?320699-1/discussion-barry-goldwater-conservationist

“Barry Goldwater’s Earth Day: The Unprecedented (and Unexpected) Appeal of Environmentalism after World War II,” U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, April 22, 2014. One in a series of lectures marking the Federal Reserve’s 100th anniversary.

“1973: It Was a Big Year,” Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, Invited panel moderator, “Now and Then: The Endangered Species Act,” October 16, 2013.

“Rethinking the Civil War” and “Conservatives and the Environmental Movement,” Teaching American History - Voices of America Summer Institute: American Lands and Migrations, Miami University of Ohio, July 31, 2013

“Green History: Nature, Environment, and Environmentalism in the United States after 1945,” Teaching American History: The Fulton County March 2008-2012, November 10, 2012.

“The Skeptical Environmentalist: Senator Barry Goldwater and Federal Environmentalism,” Goldwater at 100 conference, Arizona State University, November 13, 2009.

“Left, Right and Center: Contesting the American Dream - Barry Goldwater, Environmentalism and the Problem of Ideology after World War II,” for "Debating the Common Good,” Summer 2007 Seminar: Teaching American History: Connecting Learning and Instruction in Olathe (CLIO), Dole Institute, University of Kansas, June 25, 2007.

AWARDS:

• Amanda and Greg Gregory Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of Georgia, May 2016 • Richard B Russell Special Collections Libraries Faculty Fellowship, University of Georgia, 2015-16 • Nominated - Franklin College Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of Georgia, Fall 2014 • Lila Atkinson Creighton Scholarship, University of Kansas, 2005-6 • Eddie Jacobson Scholarship, Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Foundation, 2005-6 • Lila Atkinson Creighton Scholarship, University of Kansas, 2003-04 • “Preparing Future Faculty” (PFF) Fellowship, University of Kansas, 2002-03

UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

August 2015 – present Senior Lecturer Department of History, University of Georgia - US History to 1865 - US History Since 1865 - US History Since 1865 (honors seminar) - US History 1945 to Present - Environmental History of the Modern World - American Environmental History - Senior Seminar in US Environmental History

August 2009-August 2015 Lecturer Department of History, University of Georgia - US History to 1865 - US History Since 1865 - US History Since 1865 (honors seminar) - US History 1945 to Present - Environmental History of the Modern World - American Environmental History - Senior Seminar in US Environmental History

August 2007-August 2009 Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Georgia - US History Since 1865 - US History Since 1865 (honors seminar)

- US History Post-1945 - Environmental History of the Modern World - American Environmental History - Senior Seminar in US Environmental History

August 2006-May 2007 Lecturer, Humanities and Western Civilization Program University of Kansas - Western Civilization II survey: Descartes to Klein

August 2005-May 2006 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Humanities and Western Civilization Program, University of Kansas - Western Civilization I survey: Gilgamesh to Galileo - Western Civilization II survey: Descartes to Klein

January-May 2001, Assistant Instructor, Department of History, August 2002-May 2003 University of Kansas - US History to 1877 - US History Since 1865

August 1999 – January 2001 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of Kansas - History of US Civil War - Environmental History of North America - History of World War II

August 1998 - May 1999 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Environmental Studies Program, University of Kansas - Introduction to Environmental Studies

September 1996 - June 1998 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of Georgia - US History to 1877 - US History Since 1865 - Western Civilization

STUDENT COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS/FACULTY MENTORSHIPS

Doctoral comps committee for Luke Manget

Master’s thesis committee for Christopher J. Marsh, “Smokey Comes South: Andrew Gennett, The Weeks Act of 1911, and the Development of the National Forests in Southern Appalachia,” University of Georgia, Fall 2013.

Faculty sponsor/mentor to Anthony Sadler, CURO Summer Fellow 2013 and winner of the UGA history department’s 2013 Thomas Pleasant Vincent award.

Faculty sponsor/mentor to Brett Bennett, CURO Summer Fellow 2014: “The Forgotten Radical: Southern Women and the New Left Student Protests of the 1960s” *Winner of the 2015 UGA CURO Symposium Best Paper in the Arts, Humanities and Media *Winner of the 2015 UGA Libraries Undergraduate Research Award, 1st-3rd Year Division

Faculty sponsor to Fraser Livingston, winner of the UGA history department’s 2013 Alf Andrew Heggoy Award for best senior paper, 2013

Faculty mentor to honors student Hayley K. Mecher, “Pandora’s Box: Optimism and Disillusionment in the Early DDT Era [defended May 2, 2013]”

Faculty mentor to Roosevelt Scholars Malin Dartnell and Shanell Davis, Moving Waste Management to the Future: Implementing a Facultative Bioreactor on the Athens-Clarke County Landfill, Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities Symposium, University of Georgia Honors Program, April 6, 2009

OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE

May – June 2011 Lead Instructor, Global L.E.A.D. Program, May – June 2012 Athens, Greece

MISCELLANEOUS:

Manuscript reviewer for Routledge (2013) and University of Nevada Press (2016)

Manuscript proposal reviewer for Oxford University Press (2011) and University of Pittsburg Press (2014)

Outside reader for articles in Environmental History, The Sixties, Pacific Historical Review, Western Historical Quarterly, Transitions, and Great Plains Quarterly

Speaker on “Civil War Environmental History,” Athens, Georgia chapter of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, January 30, 2015

Speaker for the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies Open House, University of Georgia, April 17, 2013

Speaker for UGA Phi Alpha Theta Film Night, November 7, 2012: “‘Cane Toads’ and Environmental History”

Speaker for the Richard Russell Library for Political Research and Studies’ “Ready, Set, Vote!” Series screening of “The Candidate,” University of Georgia, November 1, 2012

Speaker/panelist for Georgia Writers’ Bloc: Writers’ Revival and Roadrace,” April 29, 2012

Speaker for UGA War and Society graduate student film series screening of “Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives: the Environmental Impact of War,” November 2, 2011

REFERENCES:

Stephen W. Berry II Associate Professor and Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era

Department of History, University of Georgia Ph: (706)542-2500 Email: [email protected]

William Cronon Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison Ph: (608)265-6023 Email: [email protected]

John C. Inscoe Albert B. Saye Professor of History and University Professor Department of History, University of Georgia Ph: (706)542-8848 Email: [email protected]

Paul S. Sutter Associate Professor Department of History, University of Colorado Ph: (303)492-6208 Email: [email protected]

James Morton Turner Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Wellesley College Ph: (781) 283-2820 Email: [email protected]

Donald E. Worster Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Distinguished Emeritus Professor of U.S. History Department of History, University of Kansas Distinguished Foreign Expert and Honorary Director Center for Ecological History School of History, Renmin University of China Email: [email protected]