One of the country’s leading environmental writers and thinkers, William Cronon joins a panel of faculty from WSU and the Univ. of Idaho, 3:30-5:30 p.m. in the Idaho Commons Student Union, UI, Moscow. They will discuss the use of narrative/personal voice to write history, or nonfiction infused with history/natural history. Other panelists are Adam Sowards, director, UI Institute for Pacific Northwest Studies; Mary Wack, vice provost, WSU Undergraduate Education; Mary Blew, UI professor; and Larry Hufford, director, WSU School of Biological Sciences and Conner Museum of Natural History, and English professors Debbie Lee of WSU and Scott Slovic of UI.
Cronon is a distinguished research professor of history, geography & environmental studies at 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 was awarded the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize and the Bancroft Prize.
This events follows Cronon’s March 26 presentation at WSU, “The Portage: Time, Memory, and Storytelling in the Making of an American Place” at 6:30 p.m. in the CUB Auditorium. Find out more about both events at https://libarts.wsu.edu/english/visitingwriterseries.html.
