William Cronon

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William Cronon (born September 11, 1954) is the Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he obtained a doctorate from Jesus College, Oxford in the unusually short period of two years (1976–1978).[1] He is a noted environmental historian and the author of Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (1983) and Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1991) (which won the Bancroft Prize in 1992)[1] as well as the editor of Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature (1995) in which he authored the article "The Trouble with Wilderness". In July, 1985, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.

In a study of a ghost town in Alaska, Cronon has shown that places depend on other places for their existence.[2]

Mr. Cronon serves on the board of directors for The Trust for Public Land.

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  1. ^ a b "Old Members News and Notes" (1993/4). The Jesus College Record: 48. 
  2. ^ "Place, A Short Introduction", Tim Cresswell

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