Shawn W. Miller

1:30-2:30, Mon. & Wed.

• Hist 290. Nature and History: the Earth's Environmental Past

Biography

Professor Miller joined the history department in 1997 after completing a Ph.D. at Columbia University. He specializes in the colonial and environmental history of Brazil and Latin America. His publications include Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber (Stanford University Press, 2000); "Stilt-root Subsistence: Colonial Mangrove Conservation and Brazil's Free Poor" (Hispanic American Historical Review); and "Fuelwood in Colonial Brazil: the Economic and Social Consequences of Fuel Depletion for the Bahian Recôncavo, 1549-1820" (Forest & Conservation History). His scholarship was honored in 2006 with a Brigham Young University Young Scholar Award, and his teaching with the Class of  '49 Young Faculty Award. Professor Miller has just completed a book entitled An Environmental History of Latin America for Cambridge University Press, and currently serves as Department Chair.

Classes Taught:

• History 200. The Historian's Craft
• Hist 202. World Civilizations since 1500
• Hist 251. Colonial Latin America
• Hist 290. Nature and History: the Earth's Environmental Past
• Hist 356. Brazil
• History 490: Capstone Research Seminar: Environmental History

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