Linda L. Nash
Associate Professor: Environmental, American West, U.S. Twentieth Century
lnash@u.washington.edu
Education
Ph.D. University of Washington, 2000.
Selected Bibliography
Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge. Berkley: University of California Press, 2006.
* Winner of the American Historical Association's John H. Dunning Prize
* Winner of the American Historcial Association - Pacific Coast Branch Book Award
* Winner of the Western Association of Women Historian's Keller-Sierra Prize
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"The Agency of Nature or the Nature of Agency?" Environmental History 10 (January 2005).
"The Fruits of Ill-Health: Pesticides and Workers' Bodies in Post-World
War II California," Osiris 19 (2004).
* Winner of the American Society for Environmental History's Hamilton Prize.
"Dixy Lee Ray," in Notable American Women, vol. 5, ed. Susan B. Ware. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.
"Finishing Nature: Harmonizing Bodies and Landscapes in Late Nineteenth-Century
California," Environmental History 8 (January 2003).
"The Nature of the Firm," Reviews in American History 30
(June 2002).
"The Changing Experience of Nature: Historical Encounters with A
Northwest River," Journal of American History 86 (March 2000).
Research in Progress
"Engineering a Modern World: Environments, Technologies, and Stories of Agency" (book project)
Other research interests include post-World War II environmentalism;
consumption and consumerism in the twentieth-century United States; the political and cultural history of environmental risk.
Critical Medical Humanities --Collaboration among faculty in anthropology,
history, medical history and ethics, philosophy, and women studies that
emphasizes the contribution of the humanities to rethinking ideas of health,
illness, and disability.
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