The Wolfe Institute The Department of History, in collaboration with the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, presents a lunchtime discussion with Sara Dant and Dan Flores On Doing Environmental History of the American West Sara Dant is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Weber State University in Utah. Her newest book is Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West (Wiley, 2017). She is the author of several prize- winning articles on western environmental politics and a precedent-setting Expert Witness Report and Testimony on Stream Navigability upheld by the Utah Supreme Court (2017). She is also co-editor of the two-volume Encyclopedia of American National Parks (Routledge, 2004). Dan Flores, A.B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of Western History at the University of Montana-Missoula, currently lives and writes in the Galisteo Valley outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has published ten books, among them the best-selling Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History (New York: Basic/Perseus, 2016), American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2016), Caprock Canyonlands: Journeys into the Heart of the Southern Plains, 20th Anniversary Edition (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2010), and The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001; paperback edition, 2003). Thursday, October 3, 2019 12:30 to 2 p.m. History Seminar Room, 1115 Boylan Hall Brooklyn College Campus Free pizza available Contact or Connect with us: P: 718.951.5847 | E: [email protected] | T: @HistoryDept_BC | W: brooklyn.cuny.edu/wolfe.