Curriculum Vitae
Mark Harvey
Professor of History
Department of History, NDSU Dept. 2340, P. O. Box 6050
North Dakota State University
Fargo, North Dakota 58108-6050
(o) 701-231-8828 (h) 218-233-3147
Education
Ph.D. History, University of Wyoming (1986)
M.A. History, University of Wyoming (1982)
B.A. History Education, Luther College (1978)
Teaching Experience
North Dakota State University, Fargo
Professor of History, 2004-present
Associate Professor of History, 1994-2004
Assistant Professor of History, 1988-1994
Instructor of History, 1986-1988
Instructor & Teaching Assistant, University of Wyoming, 1981-1986
Courses
American Frontier to 1875
American West Since 1875
Environmental History
Introduction to Public History (undergraduate)
U.S. History to 1877; 1877 to present (undergraduate)
Readings in Environmental History (graduate)
Readings in Frontier / American West History (graduate)
Publications
Books:
Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005; paperback, 2007).
Winner of the 2006 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Award from the Forest History Society for the best book in forest and conservation history published in 2005.
Honorable Mention for 2006 Caroline Bancroft Prize, sponsored by Western History & Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library.
A Symbol of Wilderness: Echo Park and the American Conservation Movement (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994; paperback reprint in Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classic Series; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000).
Edited Works
“An Interview with Donald Worster,” Environmental History 13 (January 2008), 140-155.
Work in Progress
“The Wilderness Writings of Howard Zahniser” (editor), University of Washington Press (forthcoming, 2014).
Book manuscript, “Bernard DeVoto and the American West: Its History and Public Lands.”
Commissioned Text
“A History of the Missouri-Yellowstone River Confluence,” (285 page manuscript written for the State Historical Society of North Dakota, September 2002. The Historical Society staff drew on this manuscript in planning interpretive exhibits for the Confluence Visitor Center).
Scholarly Articlesand Book Chapters
Review Essay of Douglas Brinkley, The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America Theodore Roosevelt AssociationJournal 32 (Winter / Spring 2011), 35-49.
“The Environment and the Harry S Truman Presidency,” in Daniel Margolies, ed., Companion to the Presidency of Harry S Truman (forthcoming, Wiley & Blackwell, 2012).
“Taking the Postwar Seriously: The Environmental Significance of the Truman Years in Modern United States History,” in Karl Boyd Brooks, ed.,
The Environmental Legacy of Harry S. Truman (Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2009), 3-19.
“Loving the Wild in Postwar America,” in Michael Lewis, ed., American Wilderness: A New History (New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 2007), 187-203.
“James J. Hill, Jeannette Rankin, and John Muir: The American West in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920," in Richard W. Etulain, ed., Western Lives: A Biographical History of the American West (Albuquerque:
University of New Mexico Press, 2004), 283-304.
“Wallace Stegner’s Journey Into Wilderness,” Literature and Belief 23.1 (2003), 147-161.
“Wilderness, Recreation, and the Politics of Sound on the Boundary Waters, 1945-1964," Minnesota History 58 (Fall 2002), 130-145.
“Securing the Confluence: A Portrait of Fort Buford, 1866 to 1895," North Dakota History 69 (2002), 34-49.
“Changing Fortunes of the Big Dam Era in the American West,” in Char Miller, ed., Fluid Arguments: Water in the American West (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001), 276-302.
"First Ascent of the Grand Teton: The Great Controversy," Annals of Wyoming: The Wyoming History Journal 71 (Summer 1999), 24-34.
"Defending the Park System: The Controversy Over Rainbow Bridge," New Mexico Historical Review 73 (January 1998), 45-67.
"Humans and the Environment in America's Past," OAH Magazine of History 10 (Spring 1996), 5-11.
"Battle for Dinosaur: Echo Park Dam and the Birth of the Modern Wilderness Movement," Montana: the Magazine of Western History 45 (Winter 1995), 32-45.
Introduction of theme issue on water history of North Dakota and "North Dakota, the Northern Plains, and the Missouri Valley Authority," North Dakota History 59 (Summer 1992), 28-39.
"Utah, the National Park Service, and Dinosaur National Monument, 1909-56," Utah Historical Quarterly 59 (Summer 1991), 243-263.
"Echo Park, Glen Canyon, and the Postwar Wilderness Movement," Pacific Historical Review 60 (February 1991), 43-67.
Non-Refereed Articles
“Managing the Wild,” Environmental History 10 (October 2005), 700-01.
“Architect of the Wilderness Act,” Wilderness (2004), 30-31.
“Howard Zahniser: Architect of the Wilderness Act,” Redrock Wilderness: The Newsletter of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance 16 (Autumn 1999), 13-18.
"Howard Zahniser: A Voice for Wilderness," Wild Earth 8 (Summer 1998), 62-66.
Encyclopedia Entries
“David R. Brower” and “Wilderness” in Kathleen A. Brosnan, ed., Encyclopedia of American Environmental History (New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2011), pp. 198-200 and 1396-1399.
“Environmental History,” in Gary A. Goreham, ed., Encyclopedia of Rural America: The Land and People 2nd ed. (Millerton, New York: Grey House Publishing, Inc., 2008), 333-337.
“The Red River of the North,” in Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, Andrew R. L. Cayton, eds., The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007), 1356-1358.
“Western Dams in the United States,” “U.S. Wilderness Recreation,” and “Wilderness Act of 1964," in Char Miller, ed., The Atlas of United States and Canadian Environmental History (New York: Routledge, 2003).
“Big Dams,” in Char Miller, ed., History in Dispute: Water and the Environment Since 1945: Global Perspectives (Gale Publishing, 2001).
"Colorado River Storage Project," and "Echo Park Dam," in Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod, eds., Encyclopedia of the American West (New York: Simon & Schuster / Macmillan, 1996).
Scholarly Book Reviews
Journal of American History, Western Historical Quarterly, Environmental History, Pacific Historical Review, Journal of Forest History, Pacific Historian, Journal of the West, North Dakota History, South Dakota History, Annals of Wyoming, New Mexico Historical Review, Minnesota History, Montana: The Magazine of Western History, Journal of Arizona History, American Studies, Agricultural History, Technology and Culture, British Columbian Quarterly, The Public Historian, Kansas History, Oregon Historical Quarterly.
Conference Papers
“Writing Wilderness Forever: The Biography of Howard Zahniser,” American Society for Environmental History, St. Paul, Minnesota, March, 2006.
“The West and the Making of the Wilderness Act of 1964,” Western History Association, San Diego, CA, October, 2001.
“Howard Zahniser and the Cultural Politics of Wilderness,” American Society for Environmental History, Durham, NC, March 2001.
“Wallace Stegner’s Journey Into Wilderness,” Spiritual Frontiers 2000, Provo, Utah, March 30, 2000.
"Howard Zahniser and the American Wilderness Movement," American Society for Environmental History, Tucson, Arizona, April 1999.
“Garrison Dam and A Sense of Place,” North Dakota History convention, Bismarck, North Dakota, September 26, 1998.
Invited Presentations
“Wild About Wilderness: A Historian’s Journey Into Nature’s Past,” North Dakota State University Faculty Lectureship, April 1, 2008, NDSU.
“Incorporating the Environmental Movement into the U.S. History Survey After World War II,” Harry S Truman Symposium, Key West, Florida, June 9, 2007.
“Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act,” presented to governing board of The Wilderness Society, Ely, Minnesota, September 15, 2005, Fargo Rotary Club, February 20, 2006 and to public audiences in Warren, Pennsylvania, February 25, 2006; Sheridan, Wyoming, July 18, 2006; National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institution), Washington, D.C., August 15, 2006; National Conservation Training Center, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, August 16, 2006.
Public Presentations on Lewis and Clark Expedition, Heritage Hjemkomst Interpretive Center, Moorhead, Minnesota, April and May, 2005.
Presentations at Fort Buford State Historic Site, May, 2004 and at North Dakota Teachers symposium, Williston, North Dakota, June 2002.
“Fort Buford and the Military Frontier of the West,” Fargo-Moorhead Communiversity course,” February 2003.
“Garrison Dam and the Missouri River,” Missouri River Symposium, Bismarck, North Dakota, May 2000.
“Remembering Lewis and Clark,” Fargo-Moorhead Communiversity, February 2000.
“Garrison Dam and the Fort Berthold Reservation,” New Town, North Dakota, June 1999.
"Biography and Environmental History," Department of History Symposium, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, April 1997.
Awards
Faculty Lectureship Award, North Dakota State University,2008.
Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Award, Forest History Society, presented in 2006, for best book in forest and conservation history published in 2005.
Outstanding Educator Award for 2006, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, North Dakota State University.
Meritorious Service Award from Forest History Society and American Society for Environmental History, 2001, for 9 year service as Book Review Editor of Environmental History.
Research Grants
Charles Redd Center of Brigham Young University, $1200.00, awarded April 2011.
Charles Redd Center of Brigham Young University, $1800.00, awarded April 2010.
Charles Redd Center of Brigham Young University, $2500.00, awarded May 2009.
Research and Travel Award from National Conservation Training Center, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, August 2006.
Principal Investigator for history of Fort Buford and Missouri-Yellowstone River confluence, State Historical Society of North Dakota Grant, 2000-2002. [$152,000.]
Travel Grants, The Wilderness Society, Washington D.C., Spring 2001 and Summer 1999. [$1,000 and $1,700.]
Visiting Scholar’s Grant, Minnesota Historical Society, Summer 1999.
Research Grant, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming, 1998.
Forest History Society Bell Grant, 1997.
Summer Research Grants, North Dakota State University, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997.
Research / Creative Activity Award, NDSU College of Humanities and Social Sciences, 1995.
James J. Hill Library Research Grant, 1994.
Community Service
President of Probtsfield Farm Living History Foundation, Moorhead, Minnesota, 2009-2011.
Commentator in “The Dirty Thirties” Program, North Dakota Public Radio, April 2010.
Teaching American History Grant Instructor, Fargo Public Schools, January-March, 2008, Summer 2006, Summer 2005.
Facilitator of “North Dakota’s Historic Themes” for CHARIS Ecumenical Center of Concordia College with clergy of North Dakota, December 11-12, 2005.
Board Member, Fargo-Moorhead Communiversity, 2003-2004.
Commentator in “More Precious Than Gold,” North Dakota Water History Documentary, Prairie Public Television, Fargo, North Dakota, 2004.
Commentator in “Splendid Isolation,” Documentary of Fort Buford, Prairie Public Television, 2002.
University Service
Chair, Faculty Lectureship Committee, NDSU, 2010-2012.
Coordinator of Public History Major and Intern Program, 1986-2011.
Graduate Coordinator, Department of History, North Dakota State University, 2008-2011 and 2003-2005.
Member, University Mentoring Committee, 2010-2011.
Chair, Curriculum Committee, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, NDSU, 2009–2010.
Member of University Senate, North Dakota State University, 2005-2008; 1999-2002; 1991 to 1994.
Member of executive committee, joint Ph.D. history degree with University of North Dakota, 2002-2004.
Member of steering committee, Environmental and Conservation Science Program, NDSU, 2002-2006.
Member of Graduate Council, North Dakota State University, 1998-2000.
Member of Editorial Board, North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1994-1997.
Professional Service
Member, Editorial Board, Environmental History, 2011-2014.
Hal Rothman Prize Committee, Western History Association, 2008-2010.
Member, Site Selection Committee, American Society for Environmental History, 2006-2011.
Member, Governing Council, Northern Great Plains History Conference, 2008-2011.
Member, Local Arrangements Committee, American Society for Environmental History convention, St. Paul, Minnesota, March 29-April 1, 2006.
Member, Program Committee, Western History Association, Scottsdale, Arizona, October 14-16, 2005.
Member, Executive Board, American Society for Environmental History, 1999-2003.
Member, Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Prize Committee, Forest History Society, 2007, 2004, and 2001.
Book Review Editor for Environmental History Review and Environmental History, 1992 to 2001.
Chair, George Perkins Marsh Book Prize Committee, American Society for Environmental History, 1998-1999.
Member, Program Committee, American Society for Environmental History, Tacoma, Washington, 2000.
Member, search committees for editor of North Dakota History, 1988 and 1992.
Referee of article and book manuscripts for Journal of American History, Environmental History, Forest and Conservation History, Pacific Historical Review, North Dakota History, Minnesota History, North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, Prentice-Hall, D. C. Heath & Company, University of Arizona Press, University of New Mexico Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, Addison Wesley - Longman, Harcourt Brace, Thomson - Wadsworth Publishers, University of Washington Press, Oxford University Press, Utah State University Press, University Press of Kansas, University of Oklahoma Press, University of North Carolina Press, University of Nevada Press, Bedford / St. Martin’s, South Dakota Historical Society Press.
Professional Memberships
Organization of American Historians
Western History Association
American Society for Environmental History
National Council on Public History
Forest History Society
Minnesota Historical Society
State Historical Society of North Dakota