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Andrew Isenberg
Director, Center for American History
Andrew C. Isenberg, the Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas, specializes in environmental history, borderlands history, and the history of encounters between settlers and indigenous people in North America. He is the author or editor of seven books: The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 (2000, 2nd ed. 2020); Mining California: An Ecological History (2005); The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space (editor, 2006); Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life (2013); The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History (editor, 2014); The California Gold Rush: A Brief History with Documents (editor, 2018); and The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump (co-author with James M. Turner, 2018).