Associate Professor Jared Orsi Clark B-371 970-491-5517 Jared.Orsi@colostate.edu

Education:

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999
M.A. Northwestern University, 1994
A.B. University of California, Davis, 1992

Specializing in: Borderlands Environmental History

 

Courses to be taught in the next two years:

HIST 151: U.S. Since 1876
HIST 271: Latin America since Independence
HIST 353: Borderlands
HIST 355: U.S. Environmental History
HIST 363: Colorado
HIST 412: Mexico
HIST 492: History Capstone Seminar

Publications and Awards:

• Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles (University of California Press, 2004). Winner of Abel Wolman Award (Public Works Historical Society, 2005) and Donald H. Pflueger Award (Historical Society of Southern California, 2006).
• "State Making and UnMaking (And Making it Back at ALl): Following Zebulon Pike Across the Plains in 1806," in The Grasslands of hte United States: An Environmental History, ed. James E. Sherow (Santa Barbara: ABC Clio, 2007)
• Reclaiming the City: Water History in the Urban North American West, a special issue of the Journal of the West, 44 (Summer 2005). (Guest editor and author of introduction).
• "Reflections on Hurricanes and Other Unnatural Disasters," Colorado Water (October 2005): 21-23.
• "Flood Control Engineeringin the Urban Ecosystem," in Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles, ed. William Deverell and Greg Hise (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005), 135-51, 316-20.
• "Invisible Rivers: The Struggle of Early American Explorers to Map Colorado's Rivers," in Citizen's Guide to Colorado's Water Heritage, ed. Karla A. Brown (Denver: Colorado Foundation for Water Education, 2004), 9-13.
• "Restoring the Common to the Goose: Citizen Activism and Protection of the California Coastine, 1969-1982," Southern California Quarterly 78 (Fall 1996): 257-84. Co-winner of the Doyce B. Nunis Prize; reprinted in Gordon Morris Bakken and Brenda Farrington, Environmental Problems in America's Garden of Eden (New York: Garland Press, 2000).
• "From Horicon to Hamburgers and Back Again: Ecology, Ideology, and Wildfowl Management, 1917-1935," Environmental History Review 18 (Winter 1994): 1940.

 

Fellowships/Major Grants:

• Ray Allen Billington Distinguished Visiting Professor, Occidental College, 2008-09
• Colorado State University, Academic Enrichment Program, 2006
• Huntinton Library, Los Angeles Corral of Westerners and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship, Summer 2005
• Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, research grant, 2003, 2005, 2007
• Santa Fe Trail Association Scholarly Research Grant, 2005
• Colorado State University Professional Development Grant, 2003, 2005, 2007
• Excellence in Teaching Award (tenure-track faculty category), College of Liberal Arts, Colorado State University, Fall 2003
• Colorado Endowment for the Humanities, Research Grant, Fall 2002
• Historical Society of Southern California/Haynes Foundation, Research Grants, 1998 and 2001
• Kevin Starr Research Fellow, Univesity of California Humanities Research Institute, 1999-2000