You can download a CV by clicking on the attachment at the bottom of the page. EDUCATION Dartmouth College. 1979-84. Honors BA. Summa Cum Laude. Brasenose College, University of Oxford. 1984-86. M.Phil. Marshall Fellowship. University of Washington, Department of Zoology. 1987-92. Doctoral candidate in Zoology. University of Washington, Special Individual Ph.D. in Environmental Studies. 1992-1994. University of Washington, Burke Museum, Eddy Postdoctoral fellowship, 1994-5.
ACADEMIC POSITION Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and Dept. of Forest and Wildlife Ecology. AWARDS AND GRANTS Marshall Fellowship 1984-1986. National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship; 1988-1991. National Marine Fisheries Service grant 1993-4. American Philosophical Society, Michaux Silvicultural History Grant 1993. Eddy Postdoctoral Fellowship. National Humanities Center, Donnelly Fellow in Ecological Humanities, Spring 1997. Forest Dreams was winner of the Forest History Society's 1997 Weyerhaeuser Award American Council of Learned Societies Sabbatical Fellowship 2002-2003 Vilas Associates Award, UW-Madison 2002-2004 McIntire- Stennis Grant, USDA. 2003-2007. Graduate School Research Competition. 2005, 2006, 2008 awards. Grant from National Council for Science and Sustainable Forestry to sponsor workshop on Old Growth and Extended Rotation Forests in the Lakes States, May 21-24, 2006. PUBLICATIONS a. Books Langston, N. 1995. Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: the Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West. University of Washington Press, Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books.
Langston, N. 2003. Where Land and Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed. University of Washington Press.
National Research Council. 2003. (Adams, Cowling, Helfman, Howard, Huggett, Langston, Lewis, Mount, Moyle, Newcomb, Pace, and Ruhl). Scientific Evaluation of Biological Opinions on Endangered and Threatened Fishes in the Klamath River Basin: Final Report. 350 pp. National Academy Press, Washington DC.
Langston, N. Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES (Yale University Press, 2010). B. Articles Langston, N., S. Freeman, D. Gori, and S. Rohwer. 1990. Evolution of Body Size in Female Redwinged Blackbirds: Effects of Female Competition and Reproductive Energetics. Evolution 44: 1764-1779.
Langston, N. and S. Rohwer. 1995. Unusual Patterns of Incomplete Primary Molt in Laysan and Black-footed Albatrosses. Condor 97: 1-19.
Langston, N. and N. Hillgarth. 1995. The Extent Of Primary Molt Varies With Parasites In Laysan Albatrosses: A Possible Role In Life History Tradeoffs Between Current And Future Reproduction. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (series B) 261: 239-243.
Rohwer, S., N. Langston, and D. Gori. 1996. Body Size In Male Redwinged Blackbirds: Manipulating Selection With Sex-Specific Feeders. Evolution 50: 2049-2065.
Langston, N. and S. Rohwer. 1996. Molt/breeding Tradeoffs In Albatrosses: Implications For Understanding Life History Variables. Oikos 76:498-510.
Langston, N., S. Rohwer, and D. Gori. 1997. Experimental Analysis Of Intra And Intersexual Competition In Red-Winged Blackbirds. Behavioral Ecology 8: 524-533.
Langston, N. 1996. "The Uses of History in Restoration" in The Role of Restoration in Ecosystem Management. Edited by David L. Peterson and Charles V. Klimas (SER 1996).
Langston, N. 1999. "Environmental and Human Change in Old Growth Forests," Research in Social Problems and Public Policy 7: 253-271.
Langston, N. 1999. "Environmental History and Restoration." Journal of the West 38: 45-54.
Langston, N. 2000. "When Sound Science is Not Enough: Regulating the Blues." Journal of Forestry 98: 31-35.
Langston, N. 2005. “Reflections on teaching World Forest History.” Environmental History 10. Steen-Adams,M., Nancy Langston, and David J. Mladenoff. 2007. "White Pine in the Northern Forests: An Ecological and Management History of White Pine on the Bad River Reservation of Wisconsin," Environmental History 12: 624-648.
Langston, N. 2008. “The Retreat from Precaution: Regulating Diethylstilbestrol (DES), Endocrine Disruptors, and Environmental Health.” Environmental History 13: 41-65. Roberts, Jody A. and N. Langston. 2008. “Toxic Bodies/ Toxic Environments: An Interdisciplinary Forum.” Environmental History 13: 629-635. Roberts and I are guest editors for the forum, pp. 629-703, with M. Egan, S. Frickel, L. Nash, B. Allen, S. Vogel, F. R. Davis, A. Daemmrich, and M. Murphy as contributors. Hoffman, R., N. Langston, J. McCann, P. Perdue, and L. Sedrez. 2008. “AHR Conversation: Environmental Historians and Environmental Crisis.” American Historical Review 113: 1431-1465Langston, N. In press, Oct. 2009.
"Paradise Lost: Climate Change, Boreal Forests, and Environmental
History." Environmental History 14. Steen-Adams, M., N. Langston, and D. J. Mladenoff. In press.“Indian History of the Great Lakes Cutover: The Case of the Bad River Band of Ojibwe.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal. c. Chapters and Essays Langston, N. 1997. "Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: An Environmental History of a Forest Health Crisis." Chapter in American Forests: Nature, Culture, and Politics . Ed. Char Miller. U. Press of Kansas; Development of Western Resources Series. 247-271. Langston, N. 1998. "People and Nature: Understanding the Changing Interactions Between People and Ecological Systems." Chapter in Ecology. S. Dodson, T. Allen, S. Carpenter, A. Ives, R. Jeanne, J. Kitchell, N. Langston, and M. Turner. Oxford University Press. Pp 20-72. Langston, N. 1999. "Human and Ecological Change in the Inland Western Forests." Chapter in Northwest Lands and Peoples, eds. Paul Hirt and Dale Goble. U. of Washington Press. 415-436. National Research Council. (Adams, Cowling, Helfman, Howard, Huggett, Langston, Lewis, Mount, Moyle, Newcomb, Pace, and Ruhl). 2002. Scientific Evaluation of Biological Opinions on Endangered and Threatened Fishes in the Klamath River Basin: Interim Report. 57 pp. National Academy Press, Washington DC. Langston, N. 2003. "Gender Transformed: Endocrine Disruptors in the Environment." Chapter in Seeing Nature through Gender, ed. Virginia Scharff. U. of Kansas Press. Langston, N. 2005. "Adaptive Management: Conflict and Community in Resource Management." Chapter in Community Forestry, ed. Don Field and Robert Lee, Oregon State University Press. Langston, N. 2005. "Conflict and community: a history of adapative management in practice." Chapter in Landscape, Cityscape, and Identity, ed. Jeffrey Diefendorf. Pittsburgh Press. Langston, N. 2007. “Restoration in the American National Forests: Ecological Processes and Cultural Landscapes.” Chapter for The Conservation of Cultural Landscapes, ed. Mauro Agnoletti. CABI Press. Langston, N. "Women in forestry." Commissioned entry for Forestry and Forests in the Americas: An EncyclopediaEds Fred Cubbage, Erin Sills, Glenn Galloway, Antonion Higa, P. MacDonagh, Connie McDermott, and Chad Oliver. http://forestryencyclopedia.jot.com/WikiHome Langston, N. In press. "World forest history." Commissioned entry for The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History, Ed. Akira Iriye and Pierre Yves Saunier, Palgrave Macmillan, London. Langston, N. In press. “American Forest History.” Invited 3500 word essay for Encyclopedia of Environmental History, ed. K. Brosnan, M. Melosi, and J. Pratt, Facts on File. Langston, N. In press. “New Chemical Bodies: Synthetic Chemicals, Regulation, and Health.” Invited 8200 word essay for Oxford Handbook of Environmental History, ed. Andrew Isenberg.
Langston, N. In press.
"Air: Climate Change and Environmental History." Invited essay for Blackwell Encyclopedia of Environmental History, ed. Doug Sackman, Blackwell.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE American Society for Environmental History: President 2007-2009. Vice President, 2005-2007. Chair, Publications Committee, 2009-on. Chair, Outreach Committee, 2005-6. Co-chair, Program Planning Committee 2004 meeting. Executive Committee, 2003-on. Program planning committee 1999. Editorial board, Environmental History, 2002-on. Marsh book prize committee, 1999.
Forest History Society: Elected to Board of Directors, 2 terms, 1998-on. Program Committee. Chair of Awards committee. Served on Weyerhauser Book Award Committee, 1999. Served on Blegan Award Committee, 2000.
Appointed to National Research Council, Committee on Endangered Fishes in the Klamath River Basin. 2001-2003. My task on this committee was to provide a historical perspective on landscape change in the Klamath Basin.
Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters; member of planning committee and panel chair for conference: "Wallace Stegner and the Continental Vision" Spring 1996. Member of planning committee for "Conservation and the Land Ethic: An International Conference Exploring Leopold's Land Ethic," October 1999.
Member of Planning Team to advise AAAS and the President's Council on Sustainable Development on policy recommendations with regard to landscape change. Feb. 1997. Organized National Council for Science and Sustainable Forestry-sponsored workshop on Old Growth and Extended Rotation Forests in the Lakes States, May 21-24, 2006. Organized Toxic Bodies workshop, March 2007, Baton Rouge, sponsored by NSF UW Madison: Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies: Chair of Environmental Majors committee. Program committee, PhD and MS program in Land Resources. Undergraduate curriculum committee. Forestry: Long Range Planning committee. Curriculum committee. College of Agriculture and Life Sciences: Equity and Diversity committee. Organized Women and Environmental Leadership Symposium, with Dr. Ann Bartuska, Deputy Chief of Research and Development, US Forest Service, March 2006. Sponsored by Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute. |
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