William Cronon
· David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Environmental HistoryUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison · Environment and Resources
Active 1981–2025
About
William Cronon is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His teaching and research specializations focus principally on the environmental history, landscape history, and historical geography of North America, with a primary emphasis on the United States and a secondary interest in Canada. He is dedicated to making history accessible and engaging for public audiences through storytelling and the use of new media in the digital age. His current projects include a book titled The Making of the American Landscape and a history of Portage, Wisconsin since the last Ice Age. Cronon holds a Ph.D. from Yale, a D.Phil. from Oxford, an M.A. from Yale, and a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has authored several books, including Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, and Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England.
Research topics
- Computer Science
Selected publications
2025-10-14
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingYale University Press eBooks · 2020
- Computer Science
- Computer Science
The Lamar Series in Western History The Lamar Series in Western History includes scholarly books of general public interest that enhance the understanding of human affairs in the American West and contribute to a wider understanding of the West's significance in the political, social, and cultural life of America. Comprising works of the highest quality, the series aims to increase the range and vitality of Western American history, focusing on frontier places and people, Indian and ethnic communities, the urban West and the environment, and the art and illustrated history of the American West.
University of Washington Press eBooks · 2013-12-31
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingThe American Historical Review · 2013-02-01 · 22 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingForeword: Nation-Making in the Mekong Mire
University of Washington Press eBooks · 2012-12-31
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingForeword Revisiting Origins: Questions That Won’t Go Away
University of Washington Press eBooks · 2012-12-31
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingForeword: The Sublime and Pragmatic Politics of American Wilderness
University of Washington Press eBooks · 2012-12-31
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingForeword: a wilderness on wings
University of Washington Press eBooks · 2011-12-31
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingFOREWORD: ON THE SHORE BETWEEN WORK AND PLAY
University of Washington Press eBooks · 2009-12-31
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingUniversity of Washington Press eBooks · 2009-12-31
book-chapter1st authorCorresponding
Frequent coauthors
- 153 shared
Howard R. Lamar
Yale University
- 153 shared
George Miles
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
- 151 shared
Philip Deloria
Princeton University
- 149 shared
Martha Sandweiss
Princeton University
- 145 shared
Jay Gitlin
Yale University
- 142 shared
John Mack Faragher
- 140 shared
Robert Utley
- 131 shared
J Scharff
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Education
- 1975
B.A., History
Yale University
- 1977
M.A., History
Yale University
- 1982
Ph.D., History
Yale University
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