Donald J. Pisani
Professor, Merrick Chair of
Western American History

email: djpisani@ou.edu
Personal Webpage

Area of Specialty
American West, U.S. Environmental, Legal and Agricultural History

Education
B.A., University of California, Berkeley (1964)
Ph.D. in American History, University of California, Davis

Major Publications
1. Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002).
2. "A Conservation Myth: The Troubled Childhood of the Multiple-Use Idea," Agricultural History, 76 (Spring 2002): 154-71.
3. Char Miller ed. Fluid Arguments: Five Centuries of Western Water Conflict (University of Arizona Press, 2001): Features articles by Donald J. Pisani.

Current Research Project
Dr. Pisani is doing a study of and speculation and squatter riots in California during the 1850's and 1860's.

Current Classes
Dr. Pisani teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in The American West and American Environmental History.