Sarah Payne

May 08, 2022

Sarah Payne is an associate professor of History. Her research and teaching are in public history, with a specialty in cultural resource management and historic preservation. She has served as the principal investigator on dozens of externally funded projects for …

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Jessica Barbata Jackson

March 22, 2022

Jessica Barbata Jackson is an associate professor of history, specializing in immigration history, race and citizenship studies, Italian American studies and social studies education. Her first book, “Dixie’s Italians: Sicilians, Race, and Citizenship in the Jim Crow Gulf South” looks …

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Leisl Carr Childers

February 25, 2022

Leisl Carr Childers is an associate professor in the Department of History at Colorado State University specializing in the American West environment, particularly with regard to multiple use in public lands history and management. Her first book, “The Size of …

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Michael Childers

February 22, 2022

Michael Childers is an associate professor in the Department of History at Colorado State University specializing in the modern American West and the environment – interests he developed while growing up in Colorado’s Fraser Valley. His first book, “Colorado Powder …

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Jared Orsi

September 14, 2021

Jared Orsi, director of CSU’s Public Lands History Center, focuses on environmental history in the borderlands between the United States and Mexico. He has authored three books: “Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles,” “Citizen Explorer: The Life …

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Ann Little

September 14, 2021

Ann Little specializes in the history of colonial America, with emphasis on the history of women, gender and sexuality. Little is the author of two award-winning books, “Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England” and “The Many …

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Robert Gudmestad

September 14, 2021

Robert Gudmestad specializes in the history of the American South, particularly the Civil War, steamboats and American slavery, as well as American sports history. He has authored two books: “A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade” and …

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