College of Liberal Arts

Department of History

Peter BoagPeter 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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