Katherine G. Morrissey
Office: 137a Social Sciences Phone: 520-626-8429
Katherine Morrissey
Email:
 kmorriss@email.arizona.edu
Degree:
 Ph.D. Yale University, 1990
Affiliation:

Associate Professor, Department of History

Interests:
 Western U.S. history, American Studies, environmental history, U.S. Southwest
Classes:
 HIST 355 U.S. Environmental History
HIST 446/546 History of Arizona and the Southwest

Current Research:

 “Nature of Conflicts,” book on environmental and cultural mining pollution conflicts in the early 20th-century North American West; “Tumacacori National Historical Park, Administrative History,” with Thomas Finger; Desert Southwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Grant


Recent Major Publications:

2005 (Editor, with Kirsten Jensen) Visions in the Dust: Arizona through the Lens of the 1930s. Forthcoming from University of Arizona Press, Tucson
2005

“Dams and Erosion: Interpretations and Representations of Arizona’s Environment,” in Visions in the Dust, edited by Katherine G. Morrissey and Kirsten Jensen. Forthcoming from University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2005

(with Nancy J. Parezo) “Scientific Photography? Cameras and 1930s Southwestern Archaeology,” in Visions in the Dust, edited by Katherine G. Morrissey and Kirsten Jensen. Forthcoming from University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
1999

“Mining, Environment and Historical Change in the Inland Northwest, ” in Northwest Land and Peoples: An Environmental History, edited by Paul Hirt and Dale Goble. University of Washington Press, Seattle.

1997

Mental Territories: Mapping the Inland Empire. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY.

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