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Dale E. Potts <dale.potts@umit.maine.edu> University of Maine Cultural and environmental conservation in the history of the Northeast. |
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List Affiliations: | Former Review Editor for H-Environment Reviewer for H-Environment |
Reviews: | Homestead and Ecological Communion Literature and Environmental Action |
Interests: | American History / Studies Intellectual History Native American History / Studies |
Bio: Dale E. Potts 1055 School Street, Apartment 5, Veazie, Maine 04401 (207) 356-0736 dale.potts@umit.maine.edu Education • Ph.D. in History, May 2007, University of Maine, Orono, Maine Specialties - Environmental History and American Popular Culture Dissertation – “Woods Voices, Woods Knowledge: Work and Recreation in the Popular Literature of the Northeastern Forest, 1850-1963.” • M.A. in Humanities, 1997, Pennsylvania State University, Middletown, Pennsylvania Thesis - “Perceived Images: Changing Cultural Assumptions about Native Americans in Selected Works by Ernest Hemingway, Oliver La Farge and John Joseph Mathews.” • B.A. in History, 1992, Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania Teaching Experience • University of Maine, Temporary Faculty: • History of Film, fall 2008 U.S. History to 1877, spring & fall 2007; spring 2008 Everyday Life in American History, 1600 to 1850, fall 2007 20th Century American Popular Culture, spring 2007 U.S. History: 1865 to the Present, spring 2005; fall 2006 • Thomas College, Adjunct Assistant Professor of History: Environment and Society, fall 2008 Modern Western Civilization, fall 2008 U.S. History to 1877, fall 2007 • Eastern Maine Community College, Bangor, Maine, Adjunct Faculty, Introduction to Sociology, spring 2008, fall 2008 Environment and Society, spring 2008 U.S. History: 1898 to Present, fall 2006, spring and fall 2007 World History: 1500 to Present, fall 2006; spring 2008, fall 2008 • John J. Nolde Lectureship, U. S. History II, University of Maine, spring 2005 • University of St. Francis, Joliet, Illinois, Adjunct Faculty, College of Health Arts American History, 1865 to Present, spring 1999 and summer 2000 Awards/Fellowships • New England Historical Association Conference, Best Graduate Student Paper 2006 • Outstanding Graduate Student: College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, - University of Maine at Orono, 2007 • Canadian-American Center, Maine Atlas Project Research Assistant, 2005-2006 • University of Maine Graduate School Research Fellowship, 2004-2005 • Maine Economic Improvement Fund Summer Research Grant, 2004 • National Folk Festival/Maine Folklife Center Summer Internship, 2004 • NEAPQ Fellowship, 2003-2004, Canadian-American Center, Orono, Maine • Teaching Assistant, 2000-2003 Department of History, University of Maine Conference Presentations • Rural Heritage Institute, Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, Vermont “Old Homes and New Owners: Working Pasts and Leisured Presents in the Chimney Farm Non-fiction of Henry Beston and Elizabeth Coatsworth, 1944-48.” • Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, San Francisco, California, April 2008, “’North Woods Melodrama:’ The Growth of the Lumber Hero in American Pulp Fiction and Film, 1910-1930.” • New England Historical Association, Worcester, Massachusetts, October 2007, “The Old Squire’s Farm: C.A. Stephens, Popular Literature, and New England’s Agricultural Decline, 1890-1930.” • Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Boston, Massachusetts, April 2007, “Finding that Cabin in the Woods: The Popular Literature of the Northeastern Forest, 1930-1960.” • New England Historical Association, Dartmouth, Massachusetts, October 2006, “’Woods Enough Still:’ The Transformation of Henry David Thoreau’s Recreational Landscape in Popular Tourist Literature of Maine in the Late-Nineteenth Century.” • Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2006, “Guiding the Populace: Conservation, Local Culture, and Traditional Practices in the Recreation Writings of Henry Red Eagle.” • American Society for Environmental History, St. Paul, Minnesota, April 2006, “Authority in the Forest: Recreation and Resource Use in the Popular Literature of the Maine North Woods, 1910-1941.” • Agricultural History Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, June 2006, “’No Time to Search the Woods:’ Traditional Farm Knowledge and the Wild Lands of Maine in the Depression-era Fiction of Gladys Hasty Carroll.” • Agricultural History Society Symposium, Cornell University, September 2004, “When Field and Forest Meet: Valuation of the Small Farm Woodlot in the Popular Literature of Maine, 1930-1959.” Publications American Centuries: The Ideas, Issues, and Trends that Made U.S. History Forthcoming: Encyclopedic entry for Leisure & Recreation in the 19th Century, New York: MTM Publishing. The Historical Atlas of Maine Forthcoming: University of Maine Press, 2009 Atlas plates: 19th and 20th Century Maine Tourism, Railroads, Highways H-Environment Forthcoming: Book review of Corey Lee Lewis, Reading the Trail: Exploring the Literature and Natural History of the California Crest, Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2005. The Journal of Popular Culture, December 2008 Forthcoming: Book review of Robert T. Self, Robert Altman’s McCabe and Mrs. Miller: Reframing the American West, Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2007. Maine History Journal Article: “Henry Red Eagle, Popular Literature, and the Reassertion of a Native American Connection to the Maine North Woods, 1910-1960.” New England Historical Association Newsletter, spring 2007 Book review of Melanie L. Simo’s Literature of Place: Dwelling on the Land before Earth Day 1970, Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 2005. H-Environment Book review of Rebecca Kneale Gould’s At Home in Nature: Modern Homesteading and Spiritual Practice in America, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Maine History Journal Book review of Dean B. Bennett’s The Wilderness from Chamberlain Farm: A Story of Hope for the American Wild, Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2001. University Government Organizations/Professional Development • Northeast Popular Culture and American Culture Association – Graduate Student Paper Award Committee, 2008 • University of Maine Honors Thesis Committee for Senior Student, 2008 • University of Maine – Independent Study Professor for Secondary Education Student, 2008 • Organization and Governance – New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc., Accreditation Report Committee for Eastern Maine Community College, 2008 • University of Maine Association of Graduate Students Representative, 2000-2003 • History Graduate Student Association President, University of Maine, 2005-2006 • Organizer of Alice R. Stewart Canadian Studies Lecture Series, 2003-2004 Foreign Languages • Intermediate reading proficiency in French Professional Organizations American Culture Association American Historical Association American Society for Environmental History New England Historical Association Interdisciplinary Studies in Environmental Literature Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association |