The Environmental Semester

Donald Worster

Environmental Historian

Donald Worster will be on campus as part of the DeRoy Seminar January 20-23 and February 11-13.

Donald Worster received a B.A. in 1963 and a M.A. in 1964 from the University of Kansas. He continued his education at Yale University, earning an M.Phil. in 1970 and a PhD. in 1971.

Dr Worster's research, lecturing, and teaching fields include: Environmental History, North America and World, the American West, and 19th and 20th Century U.S. History. He has held teaching appointments at Brandeis University, the University of Hawaii, and the University of Maine.

He is chairman of the Board of Directors of The Land Institute and serves on many environmental boards.

Dr. Worster has published several books, including An Unsettled Country: Changing Landscapes of the American West (1994), The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination (1993), and Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas (1977). Currently, he is under contract with Oxford University Press and is writing A Journey West: John Wesley Powell and His America.

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