Professor
History
Professor of History, American West
Latino & Puerto Rican Studies Minor
Professor of History, American West
Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies, Minor
Coordinator
Public History, MA
Office
Ebenezer D. Bassett Hall
216-21
Education
American History
Arizona State University
2002
Public History
Arizona State Univeristy
1996
History and Art History
Tufts University
1992
Areas of Expertise

Public History, Historic Preservation, American West, 20th Century US, Energy , Sustainability

Publications, Research & Presentations

Books

w/ Philip Levy, eds. Branching Out: The Public History of Trees. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press (Public History in Historical Perspective series), under contract

Interpreting Energy at Museums and Historic Sites. Lanham, MD: American Association of State and Local History (AASLH)/ Rowman and Littlefield (Interpreting History series), 2023.

Electrifying the Rural American West: Stories of Power, People, and Place. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.

The History, Values, and Visions of Carollo Engineers. Walnut Creek, CA: Carollo Engineers, 2003.

Linenberger, Toni Rae and Leah S. Glaser, Dams, Dynamos, and Development: The Bureau of Reclamation’s Power Program and Electrification of the West. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 2002.

Book Chapter

“When a Tree Falls…: Listening to and Managing Connecticut’s Historic Landscape,” in Branching Out: The Public History of Trees. University of Massachusetts Press (Public History in Historical Perspective series), under contract

 “ ‘An Absolute Paragon of Paradoxes:’ Native American Power and the Electrification of Arizona’s Reservations,” in Sherry L. Smith and Brian Frehner, eds. Indians and Energy: Exploitation and Opportunity in the American Southwest. Santa Fe, NM: School of Advanced Research Press, 2010.

Edited Journal

Guest Editor (theme issue), “Public History and Environmental Sustainability,” The Public Historian 36:3 (August 2014).

Articles in Academic Journals

 “Hidden Gems: Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Special Issue on Energy (October 2015), 353-355.

w/ Nicholas Thomas, “Sam Colt’s Arizona: Investing in the West,” Journal of Arizona History 56:1 (Spring 2015), 29-52.

 “Identifying and Defining Issues of Environmental Sustainability in Public History” The Public Historian 36:3 (August 2014), 10-16.

 “Let’s Sustain This!” The Public Historian 36:3 (August 2014), 130-144.

 “Beyond the Boom/Bust Cycle: Locating Enduring Stories in the Cultural Resources of the West,” in Field Notes, Western Historical Quarterly 41 (Summer 2010): 218-226.

 “Nice Towers, eh? Evaluating a Transmission Line in Arizona,” CRM: Cultural Resource Management 20:14, U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service (1997): 23-24.

 “Working for Community: The Yaqui Indians at the Salt River Project,” Journal of Arizona History 37: 4 (Winter 1996):  337-356.

Awards & Grants

“Finding your Place: Teaching the History of People of Color in Connecticut through Place-Based Learning,” Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education, Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2023-24. $60,000.

Excellence in Teaching Honor Roll, Central Connecticut State University,
2008-9, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23.

National Endowment for the Humanities/ American Library Association Grant, Host on-campus screenings of PBS’ Latino Americans (awarded with Heather Rodriguez (Sociology) for Latino Studies). Recruited and booked up guest speakers. Involved students through class projects (see load credit), 2015-16. $10,000

Campuses for Environmental Stewardship Grant, (awarded with Dr. Charles Button, et. al.). 2019. $7000

State of Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education,
Connecticut State University System-Wide Norton Mezvinsky Research Award, 2012.

State of Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education,
Central Connecticut State University-Level Norton Mezvinsky Research Award, 2012.

CCSU Community Engagement Grant, Central, “Local History and Community Development: Homelessness and Affordable Housing in New Britain,” 2011-2012. $1000

CCSU Community Engagement Grant, Central, “Sustainability Education Programs for the CCSU Community and Beyond,” 2010-2011. $1000

Dean’s Research Initiative Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Central Connecticut State University, 2008. $900.

Memberships & Affiliations

Connecticut State Historic Preservation Council; Connecticut Preservation Action

National Council on Public History; Western History Association, Western Historians in the Northeast Region; American Society of Environmental History, American Association of State and Local History

Courses Taught

HIST 511: Historic Resource Preservation and Planning 

HIST 510: Seminar in Public History 

HIST 502: Historiography: American West 

HIST 405/505/LTN 470: Local History and Community Development 

HIST 492: Public History Intern Experience 

HIST 302: Introduction to Public History 

HIST/LTN/AAPI 316: History of the American West to 1890 

HIST/LTN/AAPI 317: History of the American West from 1890

HIST 305: Connecticut and the Nation 

HIST 301: The Historical Imagination

HIST 162: History of American Life II 

HIST 100 US Environmental History