Donald Worster

Donald E. Worster ( born 1941 ) is an American historian who teaches in the fields of environmental history and history of the American West and researches.

Worster graduated from the University of Kansas in 1963 with a Bachelor of Arts degree and in 1964 with a Master of Arts. He continued his studies at Yale University, where he in 1970 the degree of Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy in 1971 one was. From 1989, he taught and conducted research as Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Professor of U.S. History at the Department of History at the University of Kansas. Worster is considered one of the founders of the American environmental history.

After his retirement, he taught at the Chinese People's University in Beijing and was a Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich.

Worster was appointed to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009, three of his books were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. In 1980 he was awarded the Bancroft Prize for his book Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s and he was honored for his biography of John Wesley Powell with the Henry Adams Prize in 2002. A Guggenheim Fellowship received Worster 1981. The Illinois Wesleyan University and the University of Stirling awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Publications (selection )

  • A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, Oxford University Press, 2008, paperback 2011: ISBN 0199782245
  • Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West, Oxford University Press, 2008, ISBN 0195086716 ( Reprint)
  • A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell, Oxford University Press, 2001.
  • An Unsettled Country: Changing Landscapes of the American West ( 1994) ISBN 0-8263-1481-3
  • The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination (1993 ) ISBN 0-19-507624-9
  • Rivers of Empire: Water, aridity, and the Growth of the American West, Oxford University Press, 1992, ISBN 0195078063
  • Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas ( 1977) ISBN 0-87156-197-2
  • Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (1979 ) ISBN 0-19-502550-4
Name Authority File
245651
de