Paul Sutter
Professor
Environmental History / Modern US

Muenzinger D140-J

T 2:00-3:15ÌýPM / TH 2:00-3:00 PM (In-Person) also by appointment via Zoom

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Professor Sutter specializes in U.S. and global environmental history.


Professor Sutter teaches a variety of courses in U.S. history and environmental history including "American History since 1865,"Ìý"Introduction to Global History,"Ìý"Environmental History of North America" and several graduate courses in these and related fields.

Professor Sutter earned his B.A. from Hamilton College and his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. He is the author ofÌý(2002) andÌý (2015), he is the co-author ofÌýÌý(with Leon Neel and Albert Way, 2010), and the co-editor ofÌýEnvironmental History and the American South: A ReaderÌý(with Christopher Manganiello, 2009) and Coastal Nature,ÌýCoastal Culture: Environmental Histories of the GeorgiaÌýCoast (with Paul Pressly, 2018). His current book project Pulling the Teeth of the Tropics: Environment, Disease, Race, and the U.S. Sanitary Program in Panama, 1904-1914,Ìýis an environmental and public health history of the construction of the Panama Canal. Dr. Sutter has also written a number of influential essays on environmental historiography, including a state-of-the-field essay in theÌýJournal of American HistoryÌý(June 2013), and he is the Series Editor for , published by the University of Washington Press. He has received major fellowships from the Smithsonian Institution, the Huntington Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health, and Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.Ìý

ÌýProfessor Sutter is accepting M.A. students in environmental history and related fields. He is no longer accepting Ph.D. students.