Coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service (1916 – 2016), the Public Lands History Center at Colorado State University is pleased to announce the publication of Sea of Sand: A History of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, written by local Fort Collins historian and Colorado State University alumnus Michael M. […]
The Office of the Vice President for Research at Colorado State University has recently announced that the Public Lands History Center has been awarded the honor of being designated a Program of Research and Scholarly Excellence (PRSE)! Programs are awarded this designation for achieving great distinction and setting a standard for excellence in research, teaching […]
For the past few years, the Colorado Humanities has been working on creation of the Colorado Encyclopedia, an online collection of articles on people, places, events, and things in Colorado history. The project, funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the History Colorado State Historical Fund, has recently launched. Scholars from […]
The Public Lands History Center’s American West Program team is a receipient of this year’s Pre-Catalyst for Innovative Partnerships (PRECIP) program from CSU’s Office of the Vice President for Research! The program provides seed funding and support for new innovative and collaborative projects on campus. The PLHC will use the program to further develop plans […]
PLHC JOB OPENINGS: SUMMER/FALL 2016 The Public Lands History Center has a position available during the summer/fall 2016. Current CSU graduate students, including incoming first-year students, as well as recent graduates of CSU are eligible to apply. The PIs for the project and the PLHC Faculty Program Manager will evaluate all applications and make final […]
PLHC JOB OPENINGS SUMMER 2016 The Public Lands History Center has the following open positions for the summer of 2016. Current CSU graduate students, including incoming first-year students, as well as graduates of CSU’s MA History program are eligible to apply. If you applied for job openings in the past, please resubmit your updated materials […]
Source, CSU’s online news, just released a feature article on the PLHC’s project “Confinement in the Land of Enchantment: Japanese Americans in New Mexico during WWII.” The PLHC team, which includes Dr. Sarah Payne and M.A. alums Tessa Moening and Kellie Nicholas, have been hard at work over the past year on this exciting and […]
March 6, 2015 — MSU News Service BOZEMAN – Elegant conservation will be the theme of this year’s Wallace Stegner Lecture, to be given Wednesday, March 25, at Montana State University’s Museum of the Rockies. Mark Fiege, a history professor at Colorado State University and currently the Wallace Stegner Visiting Professor at MSU, will speak […]
The Colorado State University Alumni Association has recognized Dr. Mark Fiege with a 2015 Best Teacher Award. The teachers are nominated by students and alumni and are selected by a committee comprised of faculty, students, and members of the Alumni Association Board of Directors. Nominated teachers/professors must be current Colorado State University faculty/staff members. Selections […]
Kim Bauer loves bicycles and she loves historic preservation. A recent graduate of the public history MA program in the Department of History at CSU, Kim has found a way to combine these two loves in her new blog Peddling Preservation. She explores the city of Denver by bicycle to find the hidden jewels that are […]