Jared Orsi

Orsi, director of CSU’s Public Lands History Center, focuses on environmental history in the borderlands between the United States and Mexico.

Orsi has authored three books: “Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles,” “Citizen Explorer: The Life of Zebulon Pike,” and “Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis: Reclaiming History and Culture at Quitobaquito.”

In 2017, Orsi won the college’s Ann Gill Excellence in Teaching award and in 2019 was named one of the college’s two Professor Laureates. He was voted one of the CSU Alumni Association’s Best Teachers in 2012.

Orsi received his B.A. in history from the University of California, Davis, his M.A. in history from Northwestern University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.