One of the country’s foremost environmental writers and thinkers, William Cronon presents “The Portage: Time, Memory, and Storytelling in the Making of an American Place” at 6:30 p.m. in the CUB Auditorium. Cronon will read from and answer audience questions about his work as part of the WSU Visiting Writer Series, sponsored by the Dept. of English and other groups.
Cronon is a distinguished professor of history, geography, and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and past president of the American Historical Association. His book “Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West” was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and awarded the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize and the Bancroft Prize.
On Thursday, March 27, Cronon will join an interdisciplinary panel of WSU and Univ. of Idaho professors to discuss “The Personal Voice of Scholarly Writing” on the UI campus in Moscow. Find out more about both events at https://go.wsu.edu/visitingwriters.
