Lawrence Culver
History
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Office Location: Logan (MAIN 321H)Phone: +1 435 797 3101
Email: lawrence.culver@usu.edu
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Educational Background
PhD, History, University of California, Los Angeles, 2004
MA, History, Utah State University, 1997
BA, History and English, University of Montevallo, 1994
Biography
Lawrence Culver is Associate Professor of History, specializing in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, American West, and environmental and urban history. His publications include The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Shaping of Modern America (2010), “Seeing Climate through Culture” in Environmental History (April 2014), and “Confluences of Nature and Culture: Cities in Environmental History,” in The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History (2014). He has held research fellowships at the Rachel Carson Center at the University of Munich and the Huntington Library. His current book project is Manifest Disaster: Climate and the Making of America.