MARK FIEGE Professor of History / Wallace Stegner Chair in Western American Studies / Department of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies / Montana State University / Bozeman, MT 59717 / [email protected] / 406-994-5204 / Home: 206 N. Jefferson St. / P.O. Box 265 / Pony, MT 59747 / [email protected] / 970-682-5068 EDUCATION 1994 Ph.D., History, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 1985 M.A., History, Washington State University, Pullman 1981 B.A., History, Western Washington University, Bellingham POSITIONS Academic 2016-present Professor, Dep’t. of History, Philosophy, and Rel. Stud., Montana State University. 2013-2016 Professor, Department of History, Colorado State University. 2000-2013 Associate Professor, Department of History, Colorado State University. 1994-2000 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Colorado State University. 1998 Adjunct Professor, Department of History, Carroll College. 1993 Adjunct Instructor, Department of History, Hiram College. 1993 Instructor, Department of History, Youngstown State University. 1992 Instructor, Department of History, University of Utah. 1987-1990 Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of Utah. 1982-1984 Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Washington State University. Other 2015-2016 SoGES Scholar, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, CSU. 2012-2016 Council Member, Public Lands History Center, Colorado State University. 2007-2012 Co-Founder and Director, Public Lands History Center, Colorado State University. 1999-2016 Co-Founder and Co-Director, Environmental Affairs Minor, Colorado State Univ. 1988-1989 Historian, under contract to Utah Power Company, Salt Lake City, Utah. 1984-1987 Historian, Renewable Technologies, Inc. (RTI), Butte, Montana. 1984 Seasonal Park Ranger, U.S. National Park Service, Wisdom, Montana. 1983 Seasonal Park Ranger, U.S. National Park Service, Manassas, Virginia. 1982 Intern, Museum of History and Industry, Seattle, Washington. HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS 2016- Wallace Stegner Chair in Western American Studies, Department of History and Philosophy, Montana State University, Bozeman. 2015 Best Teacher Award, Alumni Association, Colorado State University. 1 2015 Wallace Stegner Chair in Western American Studies, Department of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies, Montana State University, Bozeman (spring semester). 2014 Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians (2014-2015). 2013 Orion Magazine “2012 Books We Really Liked” (The Republic of Nature). 2012 National Park Service Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Units Network Award, “for exemplary and innovative participation in the CESU Network,” to the CSU Public Lands History Center, which I co-founded and co-administer with several colleagues. 2008 William E. Morgan Chair of Liberal Arts, College of Liberal Arts, Colorado State University, Fort Collins (2008-2013). 2006 Theodore C. Blegen Award, best article in forest and conservation history, Forest History Society (for “The Weedy West”). 2006 Wayne D. Rasmussen Award, best article in journal other than Agricultural History, Agricultural History Society (for “The Weedy West”). 2006 Alice Hamilton Prize, best article in journal other than Environmental History, American Society for Environmental History (for “The Weedy West”). 2005 Oscar O. Winther Award, best article in Western Historical Quarterly, Western History Association (for “The Weedy West”). 2005 Walter Hines Page Fellowship, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (2005-2006 academic year). 2004 Willard O. Eddy Teacher Award, Colleges of Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences, Colorado State University. 2001 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Award, best book on forest and conservation history, Forest History Society (co-winner; for Irrigated Eden). 2000 Best Book Award, Idaho Library Association (for Irrigated Eden). 1997 Outstanding Professor Award, Phi Alpha Theta, Department of History, Colorado State University. 1992 Eccles Graduate Fellowship, Tanner Humanities Center, University of Utah (1992-1993 academic year). 1990 Outstanding Advanced Doctoral Student Award, Department of History, University of Utah. 1990 Rural Policy Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies (1990-1992 academic years). 1983 Phi Alpha Theta, Department of History, Washington State University. 1983 Herman Deutsch Fellowship, Department of History, Washington State University. PUBLICATIONS Books 2016 National Parks beyond the Nation: Global Perspectives on “America’s Best Idea,” ed. with Adrian Howkins and Jared Orsi (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016), 319 pp. 2012 The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012), 584 pp. Paperback edition 2013. 2 1999 Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999), 323 pp. Paperback edition 2000. Articles and Essays 2016 “Introduction: National Parks beyond the Nation,” with Adrian Howkins and Jared Orsi, in National Parks beyond the Nation: Global Perspectives on “America’s Best Idea” (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016), 3-13. 2016 “Beyond the Best Idea: A Look at Mount Rainier, Antarctica, and the Sonoran Desert,” with Adrian Howkins and Jared Orsi, in National Parks beyond the Nation: Global Perspectives on “America’s Best Idea” (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016), 14- 48. [Mount Rainier portion by Fiege, pp. 14-26, 41-44.] 2016 “Nature, History, and Environmental History at Rocky Mountain National Park,” Park Science 32, no. 2 (Winter 2015-2016): 76-78. 2015 “The Democratic Promise of Nature Preservation,” in After Preservation: Saving American Nature in the Age of Humans, ed. Ben A. Minteer and Stephen J. Pyne (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015), 114-122, 210-211. 2014 “Rivers and The Republic of Nature,” Colorado Water 31 (May/June 2014): 25-26, at: www.cwi.colostate.edu/newsletters.asp. 2014 “Writing The Republic of Nature and Rethinking American (Environmental) History,” a reply to Eric Foner, Roderick Frazier Nash, Christopher Sellers, and Conevery Bolton Valencius, H-Environment Roundtable Reviews 4, no. 1 (2014): 22-34, at http://www.h- net.org/~environ/roundtables.html. 2014 “Of Sunburn, Sore Feet, and Hemorrhoids: Why Disciplinary Differences Matter—and Why They Don’t,” Journal of Historical Geography 43 (2014): 165-167. 2012 “Pain and the Power of History,” Inklings featured essay, Shelf Awareness Vol. 1, Issue 98 (29 May 2012), at: www.shelf-awareness.com. 2011 “In the Channeled Scablands,” in The Face of the Earth: Natural Landscapes, Science, and Culture, by SueEllen Campbell (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011), 90-93. 2011 “Toward a History of Environmental History in the National Parks,” George Wright Forum 28:2 (2011): 128-147. 2011 “The Nature of the West and the World,” Western Historical Quarterly 42 (Autumn 2011): 305-312. 2008 “Look Away,” Environmental History 13 (April 2008): 351-359. 2007 “The Atomic Scientists, the Sense of Wonder, and the Bomb,” Environmental History 12 (July 2007): 578-613. 2007 “Favored Companions,” Stay Connected: A Newsletter for Colorado State University Library Friends and Supporters Issue 4 (Summer 2007): 12. 2005 “The Weedy West: Mobile Nature, Boundaries, and Common Space in the Montana Landscape,” Western Historical Quarterly 36 (Spring 2005): 22-47. 2004 “Gettysburg and the Organic Nature of the American Civil War,” in Natural Enemy, Natural Ally: Toward an Environmental History of War, ed. Richard P. Tucker and Edmund Russell (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2004), 93-109. 2004 “Irrigation,” in Encyclopedia of World Environmental History, 3 vols., ed Shepard Krech, 3 John McNeil, and Carolyn Merchant (New York: Routledge, 2004), vol. 2, pp. 705-710. 2003 “Private Property and the Ecological Commons in the American West,” in Everyday America: Cultural Landscape Studies after J.B. Jackson, ed. Chris Wilson and Paul Groth (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), 219-231, 343-346. 1999 “Creating a Hybrid Landscape: Irrigated Agriculture in Idaho,” in Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples: Readings in Environmental History, ed. Dale Goble and Paul Hirt (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999), 362-388. 1992 “Wildlife and Irrigation Systems along the Snake River, Idaho,” in Transactions of the Fifty- seventh North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, Wildlife Management Institute (1992): 724-732. 1991 Butte and Anaconda Revisited: An Overview of Early-Day Mining and Smelting in Montana, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Special Publication No. 99 (Butte: Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, 1991), 64 pp., with Brian Shovers, Dale Martin, and Fred Quivik. INTERVIEWS 2013 Tom Williams, Access Utah, Utah Public Radio, 27 September, at www.upr.org. 2012 Colorado State University, for “Morrill Act: A Degree of Democracy,” In: Campus Perspectives, NBC Learn, 19 November 2012 [Air], 28 January 2015 [Web], at https://nbclearn.com/files/nbcarchives/site/pdf/65243.pdf. First aired on Rocky Mountain PBS, 13 November 2012. 2012 Wen Stephenson, “Through a Green Glass, Darkly: How Climate Will Reshape American History,” Grist, 28 August, at www.grist.org. 2012 Steve Scher, Weekday with Steve Scher, KUOW Radio, 8 June, at www.KUOW.org. 2012 Lewis Lapham, Bloomberg.com, 1 June, at www.bloomberg.com. 2012 C-SPAN, interview of Fiege and William Cronon, C-SPAN, 20 April,