Associate Professor Mark T. Fiege (on leave 2008-09) Clark B-365 970-491-6468 Mark.Fiege@colostate.edu

Education:

Ph.D., University of Utah, 1994
M.A., Washington State University, 1985
B.A., Western Washington University, 1981

Specializing in: Environment and American West

 

Current Research Interests:

Completing book manuscript on the environmental history of the United States, to be published by the University of Washington Press in the Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series.

Future research projects will concentrate on the history of water, land, plants, animals, and agriculture in Colorado; the environmental history of agriculture on the High Plains and in the Northern Rocky Mountains; and the environmental history of the National Parks.

 

Courses taught:

HIST 355 American Environmental History
HIST 351/352 American West
HIST 151 U.S. Since 1876
HIST 492 Capstone Seminar, American Historians
HIST 512 Graduate Reading Seminar, U.S. Since 1877
HIST 611 Graduate Research Seminar, United States

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

• The Atomic Scientists, the Sense of Wonder, and the Bomb,” Environmental History 12 (July 2007): 578-613.
• “The Weedy West: Mobile Nature, Boundaries, and Common Space in the Montana Landscape,” Western Historical Quarterly 36 (Spring 2005): 22-47.   (Oscar O. Winther Award, Western History Association; Alice Hamilton Prize, American Society for Environmental History; Wayne D. Rasmussen Award, Agricultural History Society, Theodore C. Blegen Award, Forest History Society)
• “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.
• Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999; paperback edition, 2000). (Best Book Award, Idaho Library Association; Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Award, Forest History Society)

 

FELLOWSHIPS/MAJOR GRANTS:

• Walter Hines Page Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 2005-2006
• Eccles Graduate Fellowship, Tanner Humanities Center, University of Utah, 1992-1993
• Rural Policy Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation/Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, 1990-1992