Jared Farmer is a professor of history at Stony Brook University. He studies the overlapping historical dimensions of landscape, environment, technology, science, religion, and culture, with regional expertise in the American West. He earned his BA from Utah State University, an MA from the University of Montana, and a PhD from Stanford University. Farmer is the author of three books and the recipient of nine book awards. He has received research grants from the Stanford Humanities Center, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. In 2014, he won the Hiett Prize in the Humanities for scholars “whose work shows extraordinary promise and has a significant public component related to contemporary culture.” In 2017, he was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow.
RCC Research Project: The Latest Oldest Tree: Survival Stories for a Time of Extinction
Lunchtime Colloquium Video - Long-Term Thinking with Trees
Selected Publications:
- “Taking Liberties with Historic Trees.” Journal of American History (forthcoming).
- “Technofossil.” In Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene, edited by Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero, and Robert S. Emmet, 191–99. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- Trees in Paradise: A California History. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.
- On Zion’s Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.
- Glen Canyon Dammed: Inventing Lake Powell and the Canyon Country. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1999.