Jeff Pappas - Instructor Jeff_Pappas@hotmail.com

Education:

Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2003
M.A., Baylor University, 1992
B.A., Brigham Young University, 1987

Specializations:

Public History
Environmental History
American Indian History
History of America’s National Parks

Current Research Imterests:

Writing an article on Dr. Harold Bryant, the founder of nature guiding at Yosemite National Park.

The history of National Park Service education and interpretation with an emphasis in the history of the nature guide movement at Yosemite National Park.

 

Courses:

HIST 151 United States History Since 1876
HIST 476 The History of America’s National Parks
HIST 478 Heritage Resource Management
HIST 479 The Practice of Public History

Recent and Upcoming Conference Papers and Presentations

• Worcester Academy, Open Gates Lecture Series, Worcester Academy, Yosemite Indians Reconsidered: Coming to Grips with a Contentious Past, Worcester, MA, March, 2010.
• Western History Association, Doing History Outside Academia: A Roundtable Discussion, Denver, CO, October, 2009.
• America Historical Association, Pacific Branch, A Different Kind of Festschrift: Noel Stowe and his Influence on Public Historical Practice: A Roundtable Discussion Albuquerque, NM, August 2009.
• Colorado Archaeological Society, Devils Tower National Monument: Contested Terrain, Sacred Space, Boulder, CO, March 2007.

 

Select Publications:

• Field Notes from Yosemite: Yosemite’s High Country, A Traditional in Educational Excellence, National Parks Traveler, July 2009.
• Contributing writer to the online magazine National Parks Traveler. Future articles and book reviews include Yosemite’s At-Risk Cultural Landscapes: Tuolumne Meadows, Park Planning, and Saving a Vanishing Treasure; Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer by Fred Kaplan reviewed in February 2009.
• The New Deal Comes to Wyoming. Again! Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office Newsletter, Winter, 2007.
• Oh the Stories They Tell: Wyoming’s Historic Schools, Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office Newsletter, Winter, 2005.

Recent Awards and Fellowships:

• Recipient of a 2005 Gilder Lehrman Award to study the history of the American West at Stanford University.
• Nominated and selected for the 2004 listing in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.
• Recipient of the Worcester Academy 2003 O’Connell Award for Excellence in Teaching.
• Recipient of the Yosemite Bronze Star for Interpretation for organizing and presenting the summer interpretive lecture series, A Brief Moment in Time.