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Professor Pisani holds the Merrick Chair of Western
American History and has written extensively on the
history of the American environment. He is the author
of many books and articles and is considered a leading
authority on the history of water policy in the United
States. His most recent book, Water and American
Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy,
and the West, 1902-1935, won the Abel Wolman Prize,
and he is now finishing a new book on the history of
land speculation, "squatting," civil order,
and law in the nineteenth century. Along the way, he
has published important articles in a variety of journals
and, in recognition of his scholarship, has been elected
the president of two professional organizations, the
American Society for Environmental History and the Agricultural
History Society. Professor Pisani offers courses on
environmental history at both the graduate and undergraduate
levels and has a large number of M.A. and Ph.D. students
working under his direction. He received his Ph.D. from
the University of California, Davis.
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