FACING LIMITS: FROM THE AGE OF ABUNDANCE TO THE AGE OF EQUILIBRIUM

Since 1989 Donald Worster has held the Hall Distinguished Professorship Chair in American History at the University of Kansas. Earlier, he taught at the University of Hawaii and Brandeis University, after earning a Ph.D. in American history and literature at Yale University in 1971. His principal areas of research and teaching include North American and world environmental history and the history of the American West.

Professor Worster’s publications include two recent prize-winning biographies, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir (2008), A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell (2001), along with eight other books, including: Rivers of Empire, which deals with the development of water resources in the West; Dust Bowl (1979), a study of the Southern Plains in the “dirty thirties,” and Nature’s Economy (1994, second edition), which traces the development of ecology from the eighteenth century to the present. His books have been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Swedish, Korean, and Japanese. In addition, he has published shorter pieces in the Journal of American History, Agricultural History, the Western Historical Quarterly, the Pacific Historical Review, the Ecologist, Environmental History, Foreign Affairs, and others.

As one of the pioneers of environmental history, Professor Worster has been particularly active in building and promoting this field. He has served as president of the American Society for Environmental History, sits on a number of editorial boards, and is advisory editor for the Cambridge University monograph series, “Studies in Environment and History.” He has lectured throughout the United States and in Africa, Asia, Europe, Canada, Central America, New Zealand, and Australia. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Society of American Historians and has held numerous fellowships and research grants. Most recently, he was named the Strachan Donnelley Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Yale University and a Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.

Faculty of ArchitectureDean’s Lecture Series 2012-2013

DONALD WORSTER Hall Distinguished Professorship Chair in American History

Donald Worster will be available for book signing immediately following the lecture

$30 per book or 2 for $55

September 12, 20126:00 PMCentre SpaceJohn A. Russell Building Faculty of ArchitectureUniversity of Manitoba

FACING LIMITS: FROM THE AGE OF ABUNDANCE TO THE AGE OF EQUILIBRIUM

Since 1989 Donald Worster has held the Hall Distinguished Professorship Chair in American History at the University of Kansas. Earlier, he taught at the University of Hawaii and Brandeis University, after earning a Ph.D. in American history and literature at Yale University in 1971. His principal areas of research and teaching include North American and world environmental history and the history of the American West.

Professor Worster’s publications include two recent prize-winning biographies, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir (2008), A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell (2001), along with eight other books, including: Rivers of Empire, which deals with the development of water resources in the West; Dust Bowl (1979), a study of the Southern Plains in the “dirty thirties,” and Nature’s Economy (1994, second edition), which traces the development of ecology from the eighteenth century to the present. His books have been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Swedish, Korean, and Japanese. In addition, he has published shorter pieces in the Journal of American History, Agricultural History, the Western Historical Quarterly, the Pacific Historical Review, the Ecologist, Environmental History, Foreign Affairs, and others.

As one of the pioneers of environmental history, Professor Worster has been particularly active in building and promoting this field. He has served as president of the American Society for Environmental History, sits on a number of editorial boards, and is advisory editor for the Cambridge University monograph series, “Studies in Environment and History.” He has lectured throughout the United States and in Africa, Asia, Europe, Canada, Central America, New Zealand, and Australia. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Society of American Historians and has held numerous fellowships and research grants. Most recently, he was named the Strachan Donnelley Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Yale University and a Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.

Faculty of ArchitectureDean’s Lecture Series 2012-2013

DONALD WORSTER Hall Distinguished Professorship Chair in American History

Donald Worster will be available for book signing immediately following the lecture

$30 per book or 2 for $55

September 12, 20126:00 PMCentre SpaceJohn A. Russell Building Faculty of ArchitectureUniversity of Manitoba