Lisa M. Brady is professor of history at Boise State University and editor-in-chief of the journal Environmental History, published by Oxford University Press. She has degrees from the University of New Mexico, University of Sydney (Australia), Montana State University-Billings, and the University of Kansas. She is author of War upon the Land: Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during the American Civil War (University of Georgia Press, 2012) and of several articles including “Life in the DMZ: Turning a Diplomatic Failure into an Environmental Success” (Diplomatic History, 2008). Her current research project focuses on the history of conflict and environment in Korea during the twentieth century with a specific focus on the 1950–53 war.
RCC Research Project: Capitalist Pigs: International Aid Agencies and Agricultural Development in South Korea, 1945–1961
Selected Publications:
- War upon the Land: Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during the American Civil War. Environmental History and the American South, edited by Paul Sutter. Giorgia: University of Georgia Press, 2012.
- “From Battlefield to Fertile Ground: The Development of Civil War Environmental History.” Civil War History 58 (September 2012): 305–21.
- “Life in the DMZ: Turning a Diplomatic Failure into an Environmental Success.” Diplomatic History 32 (September 2008): 585–611.
- “Nature as Friction: Integrating Clausewitz into Environmental Histories of the Civil War.” In The Blue, the Gray, and the Green: Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War, edited by Brian Allen Drake, 144–62. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015.
- “The Department of Defense and Its Precursors: History, Responsibilities, and Policies (1770–Present).” In The Guide to US Environmental Policy, edited by Edmund Russell and Sally Fairfax, 243–54. New York: DWJ Books, 2014.
- “Devouring the Land: Sherman’s 1864–1865 Campaigns.” In War and the Environment: Military Destruction in the Modern Age, edited by Charles E. Closmann, 49–67. Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 2009.