EDUCATION

        1997 – PhD, History; University of Kansas
                    (fields: Modern & Colonial Latin America, American West, Environmental Hist.)
        1992 – MA., Latin American Studies; University of Kansas
        1981 – BA with Honors; Anderson University (Indiana)
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

        2009--: Professor, and Louise Welsh Chair in Oklahoma, Southern Plains and Borderlands
                     History, University of Oklahoma; Norman, OK     
        2005 - 2009: Assoc. Professor and Canada Research Chair in History; Brandon University;
                            Brandon, MB
        1998-2005: Assis./Assoc. Professor of History; Humboldt State Univ.; Arcata, CA
        1997-1998: Sessional Professor of History; University of Alberta; Edmonton, AB
        1992-1996: Assistant Instructor; University of Kansas; Lawrence, KS

PUBLICATIONS

 books: - Damming Sonora: An Environmental and Transnational History of Water, Agriculture, and Society in Northwest Mexico, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, forthcoming.
 -Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Yucatán and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950, College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007 (306 pages).
-The Green Republic: A Conservation History of Costa Rica, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999 (317 pages).

Edited anthologies: -The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on
Regional History of the 49th Parallel, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006 (386 pages).
- American Indians in American History, 1870-2001: A Companion Reader, Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002 (249 pages).
      
Articles: in - Latin American Research Review    - Journal of the Southwest     - Kansas History
    - North Dakota History  - South Dakota History   - Agricultural History   -Signos Históricos
    - Journal of the West    - Radical History Review  - Environment and History (forthcoming)
                    
Encyclopedia entries: in - Encyclopedia of World Environmental History
  - Encyclopedia of American Environmental History

Eook reviews: in  - Env. History    - Agricultural History   - Histoire Sociale     -AHR       -WHQ   
- Environmental Conservation    - Canadian Journal of History    - JAEH     -South Dakota Hist. - Montana      
- Idaho Yesteryears     -American Studies     - Canadian Journal of Native Studies    - H-AmIndian   
- Great Plains Research    - Am. Rev. Canadian Studies    - North Dakota Hist.  – Jrnl. of Colonialism    -HAHR

Work in progress: - Badlands!: A Landscape History of the Badlands of the North Am. West