ABOUT

James Morton Turner is an Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Wellesley College. His first book, The Promise of Wilderness: American Environmental Politics since 1964, received the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award for the best book in conservation history by the Forest History Society in 2013. Turner has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation in support of his research in environmental history, politics, and policy. Turner has also been active in local sustainability initiatives in Massachusetts.

Andrew C. Isenberg is the Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas. He is the author of several books, including The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920; Mining California: An Ecological History (a Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2006); and Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life (a finalist for the Weber-Clements Prize in Southwest Studies in 2014). He is also the editor of The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space and The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History.


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This website was created during the summer of 2018 by Turner and Isenberg and the extraordinary help of three Wellesley College students. Lindy Crowley oversaw content creation for the website as part of the Social Sciences Summer Research Program at Wellesley. Grace Ming and Elizabeth Wegman handled website design as part of the Wellesley College Blended Learning Initiative. Please direct comments or questions about the website to the contact form below. 

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