Jeffrey C. Sanders
Assistant Professor of History
Wilson-Short Hall 353 – 509-335-7508
jcsanders@wsu.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 2005
Academic & Professional Interests
Sanders teaches environmental history, Pacific Northwest history, and the history of the U.S. West. His current research focuses on the development of the post–World War II environmental movement in the context of rapid suburbanization, the "urban crisis," and the 1960s counterculture on the west coast.
Honors & Awards
Institute for Pacific Northwest History Dissertation Prize, 2006
Publications
Sanders is currently revising his manuscript, "Inventing Ecotopia: Nature, Culture, and Urbanism in Seattle, 1960–2000," for the History of the Urban Environment series with the University of Pittsburgh Press. Recent projects include McClellan Park: The Life and Death of an Urban Green Space (Albuquerque Museum Press, 2004) and forthcoming essay "Building an Urban Homestead" in the series Studies in International Environmental History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008) in conjunction with the German Historical Institute.