Environmental History; Modern U.S. History; History of Public Health; American West

Adjunct
Ph.D. Kansas 1997

Office: 212 LeConte
Office Hours: TR 2:30-3:30, by appt.
Phone: (706) 542-2497

sutter@uga.edu

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Paul Sutter has published numerous scholarly and popular articles on the American wilderness movement, environmental historiography, southern environmental history, and other topics, and the University of Washington Press published his first book, Driven Wild: How the Fight Against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement, in 2002. He is currently at work on another book-length project, tentatively titled "Pulling the Teeth of the Tropics: Environment, Disease, Race, and the U.S. Sanitary Program in Panama, 1904-1914." He is also the editor of the book series, "Environmental History and the American South," which is published by the University of Georgia Press.

Research and Teaching Interests

Selected Publications

Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement (University of Washington Press, 2002) [More Info]

Courses Taught

HIST8860: Seminar in History [Syllabus]

Dissertations Supervised

Nehls, Kathi, "Red-Tape Fraternities: Bureaucratic Networks, Health Policy, and the Development of State Capacities in the American West, 1900-1939" (In Progress)

Okie, Tom, "TBA" (In Progress)

Reed, Lesley-Anne, "TBA" (In Progress)

Swanson, Drew, "Land of the Bright Leaf: An Environmental History of the Emergence of Bright Tobacco Culture in Virginia and North Carolina" (In Progress)

Way, Albert, "Burned To Be Wild: Science, Society, and Ecological Conservation In The Southern Longleaf Pine" (2008)

MA Theses Supervised

McLachlan, Michelle R., "Cultivating Americans: Nature and Nationality in a World War II Relocation Center" (2006)