Rachel D. Shaw
racheldshaw [at] alumni [dot] reed [dot] edu
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• Ph.D. in the History of the United States, at the University of California, San Diego . 1999.
Minor fields• M.A. in History of the United States, at the University of California, San Diego . 1996.
Western American History, with William Deverell
Communication/Culture Studies, with Chandra Mukerji
• Preparing Professional Faculty workshop at the Center for Teaching Development at UCSD. 1999.
• Australian wilderness semester with the
National Outdoor Leadership School
. 1998.
Visiting Assistant Professor (2001-2003)
(at St. Olaf College
)
• HIST 246
: American Environmental History. Lower-division lecture/seminar course.
Fall semester 2001. Fall semester 2002.
• HIST 133
: The American West: Myth and History. Lower-division lecture/seminar course.
Fall semester 2001. Spring semester 2002.
• ES 101
: The Culture of Nature. Upper-division lecture/seminar course. Fall semester
2001. Fall semester 2002.
• HIST 206A
: United States since 1865. Lower-division survey course. Spring semester
2002.
• ES 259
: Saving Wild Places: The Human Value of Wilderness. Upper-division lecture/seminar
course. Spring semester 2002. Spring semester 2003.
Visiting Assistant Professor (2000-2001)
(at the University
of San Diego
)
• HIST 170
: American Environmental History. Upper-division lecture/seminar course.
Fall semester 2000.
• HIST 180
: History of the American West I. Upper-division lecture/seminar course.
Fall semester 2000.
• HIST 17
: American Civilization I. Lower division survey course. Spring semester
2001.
• HIST 171
: American Indian History. Upper-division lecture/seminar course. Spring
semester 2001.
• HIST 181
: History of the American West II. Upper-division lecture/seminar course.
Spring semester 2001.
Lecturer (1999-2000)
(at the
University of California, San Diego
)
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• HIUS 148/USP 103
: The American City in the Twentieth Century. Upper-division lecture course.
Fall quarter 1999.
• HIUS 154
: Western Environmental History. Upper-division lecture/seminar course.
Winter quarter 2000.
• HIUS 199: Directed reading in Environment and Representation. Individual
directed reading. Winter quarter 2000.
Teaching Assistant (1993-1995; 1998-1999)
(at the
University of California, San Diego
)
• HIUS 154
: Western Environmental History. Upper-division lecture/seminar course.
• HIUS 148/USP 103
: The American City in the Twentieth Century. Upper-division lecture course.
• HILD 7A-C
: Race and Ethnicity in the United States. Lower-division survey course.
• HILD 2A-C
: History of the United States. Lower-division survey course.
Warren College Writing Program Instructor (1995-1998;
1999-2000)
(at the
University of California, San Diego
)
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• Warren Writing 10A: a workshop-based course introducing the basic concepts
of Stephen Toulmin’s system of argumentative writing. This link takes you
to the 1996 syllabus
. Click here for the Fall 1999
syllabus
. Or here for the Winter 2000
syllabus
.
• Warren Writing 10B, Ecology
: a workshop-based course for refining students’ understanding and application
of Stephen Toulmin’s techniques of argumentative writing, using the subject
of ecology as a focus.
Reader (1992-1993; 2000)
(at the
University of California, San Diego
)
• HIUS 181: American Cultural History.
• HIUS 154: Western Environmental History.
• American Foreign Relations, 1865-present.
• "Feathers, Fronds and Fantasy: Creating and Deploying the Tourist Ecoscape in Desert Palm Springs, California." A paper for the Arid Lands Studies division of the Western Social Science Association 45th Annual Conference, 9-12 April 2003.
• "In the Garden for Good and Evil: An Environmental History of America." Talk given as invited speaker for Earth Week at St. Olaf College , April 22-26, 2002.
• “Trail Shrines and Survey Mounds: Ritual Stone Piling in Palm Valley, California.” A paper for the Western Humanities Alliance conference “The Pious and the Profane: Religion and Public Culture,”at the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities , 12-14 October, 2000.
• “‘So might the Indian of yore have surveyed his domain’: Creating the Tourist Ecoscape in Palm Springs, California, 1880s-1930s.” A paper for the American Heritage Center conference, “Packaging Places: Imagining, Remembering and Promoting Landscapes.” 28-29 September, 2000.
• "A Matter of Scale: Rapid
Transformation and Conflict in Palm Springs, 1920s-1930s."
Southern California Environment and History Conference II
, at California State University, Northridge, California. 18-20 September,
1997.
• "Living in a Continuum:
Landscape Formation and Failure in Palm Valley."
Southern California Environment and History Conference, at California State
University, Northridge, California. 20-22 September, 1996.
• "Nature and Culture in
the Desert: A Study of Landscape Formation and Failure in Palm Valley, California,
1887-1907."
Western Association of Women Historians Conference XXVI, at Pacific Grove,
California. The paper appeared on a panel entitled "California Places, California
Dreams." 2-3 June, 1995.
• HSSC/Haynes Research Stipend. Historical Society of Southern California , in conjunction with the Haynes Foundation. 2000.
• Ernestine Richter Avery Fellowship at the Huntington Library , San Marino, California. 1997.
• Dissertation Fellowship. Department of History,
University of California, San Diego
. 1997.
• Book Review: Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing before Walden. Michael P. Branch, ed. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004.)
H-Environment, H-Net Reviews. October 2007.
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=13752
• Book Review: Daniel Tyler, Silver Fox of the Rockies: Delphus E.
Carpenter and Western Water Compacts. (Norman: University of Oklahoma
Press, 2003).
Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
[accepted; publication pending]
• Book Review: Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz, Lands of
Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535-1846. (Berkeley,
CA: Heyday Books, 2001).
H-West, H-Net Reviews, October 2002. URL:http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=287401039017733
• Book Review: Mansel G. Blackford, Fragile Paradise: The Impact of
Tourism on Maui, 1959-2000. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001).
Western Historical Quarterly. 33:2 (Summer 2002): 235-36
.
• Book Review: Lawrence Hogue, All the Wild and Lonely Places: Journeys
in a Desert Landscape (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2000), and Diana
Lindsay, Anza-Borrego A to Z: People, Places, and Things (El Cajon,
CA: Sunbelt Publications, 2001).
The Journal of San Diego History. 48:3 (Summer, 2002): 273-76.
• Book Review: Mary Hill. Gold: The California Story. (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2000).
Journal of the West.
40:3 (Summer 2001): 84.
• Book Review: John D. Wirth . Smelter Smoke in North America: The
Politics of Transborder Pollution. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas,
2000.)
H-ASEH, H-Net Reviews, March 2000. URL: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=5586953669958
Dissertation. University of California, San Diego. 1999.
William Deverell , Chair.
Chandra Mukerji , Co-Chair.This history offers insights into the creation of multi-ethnic communities in the American West. It incorporates studies of conflict and cooperation between humans and the environment and between human groups. It introduces new theoretical frameworks for talking about the relationships between human beings, non-human organisms, and their shared surroundings. The combination of perception, understanding, and adaptation to changing ecoscapes is a central focal point in my analysis.The revised manuscript has been conditionally accepted by the University of New Mexico Press and is currently undergoing review.
• Collaborated with Mark
Hineline
of the University of California, San Diego, in the organization and development
of
"Confluence: An Ante-Conference for Environmental History"
held at Tucson Mountain Park, Tucson, Arizona, on 16-19 February, 2001.
• The development of cartographic paradigms in the United States, especially relative to regional identity.
• Tourism, with a particular interest in the local-federal dynamics of resource preservation in the post-Reconstruction American West.
• The cultural ecologies of arid-land ecosystems, with an emphasis
on the relationships between indigenous peoples and white settlers in shared
environments.
Click here to see how these relate
to my teaching interests
.
American Association of Museums
(AAM)
American Historical
Association
(AHA)
Organization
of American Historians
(OAH)
American Society
for Environmental History
(ASEH)
Western History
Association
(WHA)
Forest History
Society
(FHS)
Australian Historical Association
(AHA)
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& Social Sciences OnLine
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