Cool Stuff – "The CHE Canon":


Prelim Reading Lists

photo by Susan Hirano

To both preserve and share the ideas and perspectives that have shaped CHE's approach to past and present environmental change, we've asked the members of the CHE community to share reading lists from their prelim examinations. Taken together, these lists demonstrate the disciplinary and methodoligical diversity that makes CHE what it is.


 

The lists are grouped first by home department (History, Geography, etc.), student name, and then by the name of the field. On the indivdual PDF, you'll find more information about the field.

If you have questions about these lists, or would like to add to make an addition, please contact us

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History

Sarah Camacho

  • "Intellectual and Cultural History," January 2010 – pdf
  • "Urban and Environmental History," January 2010 – pdf

Andrew Case

  • "American Environmental History," Spring 2008 - pdf

Todd Dresser

  • "Science, Nature, and Religion," Spring 2006 – pdf
  • "Religous History," Fall 2006 – pdf
  • "Environmental and Agricultural History," – pdf

Ari Eisenberg

  • "Environmental History and Urban History," June 2008 – pdf
  • "History of Gender and Sexuality," June 2008 – pdf

Jesse Gant

  • "U.S. West/ African American/Long 19th Century/Landscapes of Memory," 2011 – pdf

Jen Martin

  • "Environmental History Through Service Learning," – November 2005 – pdf

Nic Mink

  • "Food and Nature," Spring 2008 – pdf

Libby Tronnes

  • "US West; Native American History," Spring 2008 – pdf

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Geography

Adam Mandelman

  • "Cultural and Historical Geography," December 2009 – pdf
  • "Memory and Place," May 2010 – pdf
  • "Political Ecology and Science and Technology Studies," May 2010 – pdf

Abby Neely

  • "Environmental Health," Fall 2007 – pdf
  • "Global Environmental History," Fall 2007 – pdf
  • "Political Ecology," Fall 2007 – pdf

Travis Tennessen – Spring 2008

  • "Environmental History" – pdf
  • "Political Ecology" – pdf

  • "Native American Impacts on America's Physical Geography" – pdf

  • "History of Alaska" – pdf

  • "Human-Wildlife Relations" – pdf

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Environmental Studies

Peter Boger

  • "Ecocriticism and Animals," Fall 2009 – pdf
  • "American Environmental History," Fall 2009 – pdf
  • "Animal Studies," Fall 2009 –pdf

Suzanne Gaulocher

  • "Environmental Health and Place," June 2010 – pdf

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History of Science

Mitch Aso

  • "Racial Theories of Human Difference and the Sciences," Spring 2007 – pdf
  • "Science and Imperialism," Winter 2006 – pdf

Meridith Beck Sayre

  • "Environmental History," Spring 2010 – pdf

Bridget Collins

  • "Ecology and American Environmental History," January 2008 – pdf
  • "Women and Health in the United States," January 2008 – pdf
  • "History of Public Health in America," January 2008 – pdf

Megan Raby

  • "History of Biology" Fall 2008 – pdf
  • "History of American Science," Fall 2008 – pdf
  • "Environmental History," Fall 2008 – pdf

Andrew Stuhl

  • "North American Environmental History" (Canada, Arctic, and Native American) Summer 2010 – pdf
  • "Science and Empire," Summer 2010 – pdf
  • "Science in North America" Summer 2010 – pdf

Amrys Williams

  • "Science in America," Fall 2008 – pdf
  • "History of Technology," Fall 2008 – pdf
  • "Environmental History and Agricultural History," – pdf

Anna Zeide

  • "Environmental History," May 2009 – pdf

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Community and Environmental Sociology

John Zinda

  • "Environmental Sociology," January 2009 – pdf

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English

Todd Goddard

  • "Colonization, Quest for Empire, and Ideas of Nature," January 2009 – pdf

Andrew Mahlstedt

  • "Ecocriticism and Environmentalism of the Poor," August 2008 –pdf
  • "Recommended Readings on Mountains," undated – pdf

Michelle Niemann

  • "A New Organicism?: 19th and 20th Century Poetry and Prose, and Theoretical and Critical Approaches,"
    August 2009 – pdf

Steel Wagstaff

  • "Environmental Criticism, History, and Theory," August 2010 – pdf

Louis Pao-lin Wu

  • "Race, American Literature, and Multicultural Environmental Criticism," January, 2011 – pdf

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Anthropology

Sarah Besky

  • "Culture and Agriculture; Nature and Capitalism; Anthropology and Empire," 2008 – pdf

Chelsea Chapman

  • "Ethnography, Development and Northern Athabascan Nations; Territory, Exception, and the Ontological Problem with Sovereignty;Energy and Environmental Anthropology," Spring, 2010 – pdf

Alex Nading

  • "Ecological Anthropology; Medical Anthropology," August 2007 – pdf

Noah Theriault

  • "Political Ecology and Anthropologies of the State; Indigeneity and/in Anthropology," August 2010 – pdf

 

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Art History/Landscape Architecture

Sarah Fayen Scarlett

  • "Objects: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Material Culture," May 2011 – pdf
  • "Architecture: History of American Housing, 1607-1945," May 2011 – pdf
  • "Landscapes and Sense of Place," May 2011 – pdf
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Forestry and Wildlife Ecology

Mike Dockry

  • "Community Forestry," and "Forestry," Spring 2009 –pdf – pdf
  • "People and Environment Geography in Latin America," and "American Indian History," Spring 2009 – pdf

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Curriculum and Instruction


Steve Laubach

  • "History of Ecology in Research and Education," Fall 2009 – pdf

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