Faculty Emeriti

- Title
- Professor Emeritus
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- History Department
- Affiliations German Studies, Stevenson College, Environmental Studies Department
- Phone 831-295-6000 (cell)
- Office Location
- History Department
- Mail Stop Stevenson Academic Services
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Border Studies, Environmental History, German Studies
- Courses HIS 70A, Modern European History, 1500-1815; HIS 70B, Modern European History, 1815-present; HIS 2B, The World Since 1500; HIS 200, Methods and Theories of History; HIS 196G, Modern Germany and Europe; HIS 172D, Hitler and Nazi Germany; HIS 172B, German Film, 1919–1945; HIS 172A, Modern German History; HIS 75, Film and Holocaust
Summary of Expertise
U.S.-Mexico borderlands, public history, environmental history, international relations, German history, modern Europe
Research Interests
public history, U.S. foreign relations, global environmental issues, German history
Biography, Education and Training
Ph.D., History, University of California, Berkeley
Honors, Awards and Grants
Academic Senate's Administrator of the Year Award for 2010-11, UC Santa Cruz
Selected Publications
- The Edge of Texas: A History of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez since the 19th Century. In-progress manuscript.
- The Game of Conservation: International Treaties to Protect the World's Migratory Species. Athens: University of Ohio Press, 2009.
- How Green Were the Nazis? Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich, ed. with Franz-Josef Brüggemeier and Thomas Zeller. Athens: University of Ohio Press, 2006.
- The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815-2000. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002.
- Water and the Environment since 1945: Global Perspectives, vol. 7 of History in Dispute, ed. with C. Miller and K. Showers. Detroit, Mich.: St. James Press, 2001.
- Pax Atomica: The Nuclear Defense Debate in West Germany during the Adenauer Era. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.