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College of Arts and Sciences leadership and peers recognize history professor鈥檚 service, teaching and research with the award

Paul Sutter, a 麻豆影院 professor of history, has been named the 2024 College Professor of Distinction by the College of Arts and Sciences听in recognition of his exceptional service, teaching and research.

The college presents this prestigious award annually to current faculty members who are scholars and artists of national and international renown and who are recognized by their college peers as teachers and colleagues of exceptional talent. Honorees hold this title for the remainder of their careers in the College of Arts and Sciences at CU 麻豆影院.

鈥淏eing named a Professor of Distinction is a career honor, and I am deeply appreciative of my wonderful colleagues in the History Department who nominated me for this award, and those around campus who supported my nomination,鈥� Sutter notes.

Sutter鈥檚 research focus is U.S. and global environmental history. He is the author of听(2002) and听听(2015).

In Driven Wild, Sutter details an aspect of his longtime intellectual fascination with wilderness and U.S. environmental history: 鈥淗istorians had long studied the centrality of the wilderness idea in American history, from its importation as a filter for viewing the colonial landscape to its role as a shibboleth of the postwar environmental movement, and I was fascinated by the same questions that preoccupied many of these scholars: How was it that a nation founded upon an antipathy for the wilderness had come to cherish and protect it? What had produced this intellectual and cultural sea change?鈥�

In addition, Sutter is the co-author of听听(with Leon Neel and Albert Way, 2010), and the co-editor of听Environmental History and the American South: A Reader听(with Christopher Manganiello, 2009) and听Coastal Nature,听Coastal Culture: Environmental Histories of the Georgia听Coast听(with Paul Pressly, 2018).

His current book project,听Pulling the Teeth of the Tropics: Environment, Disease, Race, and the U.S. Sanitary Program in Panama, 1904-1914,听is an environmental and public health history of the construction of the Panama Canal.

In addition to his books, Sutter has also written a number of influential essays on environmental historiography, including a state-of-the-field essay in the听Journal of American History听(June 2013), and he is the series editor for听, 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,听 the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, and the National Humanities Center.听

Sutter earned his BA in American studies from Hamilton College and his PhD from the University of Kansas. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Virginia from 1997 to 2000 and a member of the History Department at the University of Georgia from 2000 to 2009. He joined CU 麻豆影院 as an associate professor of history in 2009 and was named professor in 2016.

Sutter served as Department of History chair from 2017-2021. He is a faculty affiliate in the Department of Environmental Studies and in the Center of the American West, and he has just joined the Advisory Board of the Ted Scripps Fellowships in Environmental Journalism.

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