Peter Boag
Endowed Chair
boag@wsu.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1988
B.A., University of Portland, 1983
Academic & Professional Interests
Professor Boag's teaching and research focus on the history of the American West, the Pacific Northwest, modern America, the environment, and sexuality.
Publications
Professor Boag is the author of Environment and Experience: Settlement Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oregon (University of California Press, 1992) and Same-Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest (University of California Press, 2003).
He has contributed essays to Many Wests: Place, Culture, and Regional Identity (University Press of Kansas, 1997) and Seeing Nature through Gender (University Press of Kansas, 2003). His articles have appeared in journals such as Pacific Historical Review and Western Historical Quarterly.
He is currently at work on a book entitled Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past, which examines cross-dressers and the heterosexualization of the American West.