 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Faculty Department Chair Asian History European History Latin American History Near Eastern & Islamic History U.S. History U.S. West History
|
 David Wrobel, Ph.D. Office: Wright Hall, A-310 David Wrobel teaches courses on the American West, American Intellectual History, and Modern American History. He is the author of Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory and the Creation of the American West (2002) (a finalist for the Spur Award for Contemporary Western Non-Fiction), The End of American Exceptionalism: Frontier Anxiety from the Old West to the New Deal (1993), along with numerous articles and essays. He is the co-editor of Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West (2001); and Many Wests: Place, Culture, and Regional Identity (1997); and editor of a Special Issue of The Historian, ";The West Enters the Twenty-First Century: Appraisals on the State of the Field" (Fall 2004)." His current book project is titled ";The World in the West: Travel Writing and the American Frontier." His next book will be an intellectual biography of the historian Ray Allen Billington. David Wrobel recently held the position of Senior Research Fellow in Western American History at the Frederick W. Beinecke Library and the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders, Yale University (2005-2006), and has been the recipient of numerous research fellowships, including The Huntington Library, CA (2003, 2001, 1997, 1993, 1990), the Western Heritage Center (1999), the Newberry Library (1996), and the American Philosophical Society (1994). He is the incoming Vice President (beginning 2007) and President Elect (2008) of the American Historical Association's Pacific Coast Branch, and is currently Chair of the Western History Association's (WHA) Membership Committee. He has also served as President of Phi Alpha Theta, the National History Honor Society (2004-2006), as a member of the Editorial Board of the Pacific Historical Review, and on various other professional nominating, program, book, article, and fellowship prize committees. A dedicated promoter of partnerships between the academy and the schools, David Wrobel served as Co-Director of an NEH Institute for teachers on the West sponsored by the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Boulder (2001); he has been a faculty coordinator and core member for the Center's Teaching American History (TAH) partnership with the Jefferson County, Colorado public schools since 2001; he co-directed a TAH summer institute on the West in Washoe County, Nevada (2003); and he has participated in the Clark County TAH institute (2005) and the NEH institute on the West for teachers in Laramie, Wyoming (2006).
|
|
