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.
- 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)