Jared Farmer



Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Stanford, 2005); Fellow, National Humanities Center, 2009-2010; Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies, 2009-2010. On leave until spring semester 2011.
E-Mail
jared.farmer@stonybrook.edu
Office
SBS S-337
Phone
631-632-1897
Fax
631-632-7367
Research Interests

Ecological history, science and society, environmental policy, landscape studies, cultural geography and historical geography, U.S. cultural and religious history, history of the North American West

Current book project: "Trees in Paradise: A California History"

Publications

On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape (Harvard University Press, 2008), winner of the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians; the Caroline Bancroft History Honor Book Prize from the Denver Public Library; the Frances Armstrong Madsen Award from the Utah State Historical Society; and an Award of Merit from the American Association of State and Local History.

Glen Canyon Dammed: Inventing Lake Powell and the Canyon Country (The University of Arizona Press, 1999)