Paul S. Sutter
- College Professor of Distinction
- ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY / MODERN US
Muenzinger D140-J
W 12:00-1:00 PM (In-Person) also by appointment via Zoom
Professor Sutter specializes in U.S. and global environmental history.
Professor Sutter teaches a variety of courses in U.S. history and environmental history including "American History since 1865," "Introduction to Global History," "Environmental History of North America" and several graduate courses in these and related fields.
Professor Sutter earned his B.A. from Hamilton College and his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. He is the author of Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement (2002) and Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies: Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South (2015), he is the co-author of The Art of Managing Longleaf: A Personal History of the Stoddard Neel Approach (with Leon Neel and Albert Way, 2010), and the co-editor of Environmental History and the American South: A Reader (with Christopher Manganiello, 2009) and Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture: Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast (with Paul Pressly, 2018). His current book project Pulling the Teeth of the Tropics: Environment, Disease, Race, and the U.S. Sanitary Program in Panama, 1904-1914, is an environmental and public health history of the construction of the Panama Canal. Dr. Sutter has also written a number of influential essays on environmental historiography, including a state-of-the-field essay in the Journal of American History (June 2013), and he is the Series Editor for Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books, published by the University of Washington Press. He has received major fellowships from the Smithsonian Institution, the Huntington Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health, and Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.
Professor Sutter is accepting M.A. students in environmental history and related fields. He is no longer accepting Ph.D. students.