Louis S. Warren

Louis S Warren is an American historian, and W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western U.S. History at the University of California, Davis[1], where he teaches environmental history, the history of the American West, and U.S. history.[2]

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Early Years

Warren was born in Pocatello, Idaho he is the third child of Claude and Elizabeth Warren.[3]

Education

Warren attended a two-room schoolhouse in the ghost town of Goodsprings, Nevada, and attended Basic High School in Henderson, Nevada. [4] He was a British American Education Foundation Scholar at Cranleigh School, Surrey, UK, in 1980 – 81, and did his undergraduate work in history at Columbia University in New York, where he graduated in 1985. [4]

He became a teacher at Peterhouse School in Zimbabwe from 1985 until 1987.

In 1988, he began graduate study at Yale University, where he received his Ph.D. in history in 1993.[4]

Professional Career

In addition to teaching at UC Davis, Warren has written or edited several books on US Western and Environmental History. He is the co-editor of Boom: A Journal of California[5]

Awards

He has received numerous awards for his writing, including:

Publications

Reviews

Sources

  1. ^ "Seminar Participants: "California Convergences: People, Places, Products" (Winter 2010)". UC Davis Humanities Institute. 2010. http://dhi.ucdavis.edu/?page_id=1646. Retrieved 23 July 2011. 
  2. ^ "Louis Warren". Department of History, UC Davis. http://history.ucdavis.edu/professor/louis_warren. Retrieved 24 July 2011. 
  3. ^ Winslow, Diane Lynne; Wedding, Jeffrey R.; Schneider, Joan S. (2000). "Claude Nelson Warren: An introduction to his life and times". In Schneider, Joan S.; Yohe II, Robert M; Gardner, Jill K. Archaeological Passages: a volume in honor of Claude Nelson Warren. Number 1. Hemet, California: Western Center for Archaeology and Paleontology, Publications in Archaeology. pp. 1–7. ISBN 0-9713558-0-0. 
  4. ^ a b c "Bio". Louis S. Warren. http://louiswarren.com/. Retrieved 24 July 2011. 
  5. ^ "Editorial Board". Boom: A Journal of California. http://www.boomcalifornia.com/editorial-board/. 
  6. ^ "Larom Summer Institute Institute of Western American Studies". H-Net Discussion Networks. http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-museum&month=0305&week=a&msg=5fpflsm2h6Ub5OhTq6TZvg&user=&pw=. Retrieved 24 July 2011. 
  7. ^ "Past Book Prize Winners". Center For Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. http://www.unl.edu/plains/bookprize/pastwinners.shtml. Retrieved 23 July 2011. 
  8. ^ "Albert J. Beveridge Award". American Historical Association. http://www.historians.org/prizes/AWARDED/BeveridgeWinner.htm. Retrieved 23 July 2011. 
  9. ^ Larry Schwartz. "The Caughey-Western History Association Prize". Moorhead, Minnesota: Livingston Lord Library, Minnesota State University. http://www.mnstate.edu/schwartz/westhistassoccaughey.htm. Retrieved 24 July 2011. 
  10. ^ "Spur Award History". Western Writers of America, Inc.. http://www.westernwriters.org/spur_award_history.htm#2006. Retrieved 23 July 2011. 
  11. ^ "2011 Fellows - United States and Canada". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. http://www.gf.org/news-events/2011-Fellows-United-States-and-Canada/. Retrieved 23 July 2011.