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2010 Burge Honorary Lecture

Richard White
Margaret Byrne Professor of American History
Stanford University
"What is Spatial History? And Why You Should Care"

Monday, September 27

5:00pm

UBC Forest Sciences Centre, Lecture Hall 1005

2424 Main Mall

Professor White, whose interests encompass the American West, Native American History and environmental history, is the author of Remembering Ahanagran: A History of Stories (1998), The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River (1996), The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (1991), "It's Your Misfortune and None of my Own": A History of the American West (1991), The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change Among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos (1983), and Land Use, Environment, and Social Change: The Shaping of Island County, Washington (1979). His books have won the Francis Parkman Prize, Albert J. Beveridge Award, Albert B. Corey Prize, James A. Rawley Prize and Western Heritage Award.

Richard White is currently the principal investigator for the Shaping the West project, part of Stanford University's Spatial History Project, which explores the construction of space by transcontinental railroads in North America during the late nineteenth century. He has been conducting this research for the last twelve years.