Faculty in History
Dr. Richard W. Judd
Adelaide & Alan Bird Professor of History
207-581-1910
345 Stevens Hall
E-Mail:
Richard.Judd@umit.maine.edu
My primary field of interest is U.S. environmental history,
particularly in New England. I received a Ph.D from the University of
California Irvine in 1979 and first came to Maine in 1980 as a
postdoctoral fellow. I returned to California in 1981 and worked for the
next three years as assistant/associate editor for the Journal of
Forest History (later merged with Environmental History). Since rejoining the
History Department in 1984, I have taught a series of courses
concentrated in nineteenth and twentieth century America, including
urban history, economic/industrial history, environmental history, and
Maine history. At the graduate level, I lead seminars in U.S. history
since 1865 and in U.S. environmental history. I also co-edit (with
Professor Martha McNamara) the Maine Historical Society's quarterly
journal, Maine History, and in conjunction with its publication I offer
a graduate practicum in editing and producing an historical journal.
Book Publications:
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Natural States: The Environmental Imagination in Maine, Oregon, and
the Nation (with Christopher S. Beach; Washington, DC: Resources for
the Future Press, 2003)
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Socialist Cities: Municipal Politics and the Grass Roots of American
Socialism (State University of New York Press, 1979)
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Aroostook: A Century of Logging in Northern Maine (University of Maine
Press, 1979)
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Maine: The Pine Tree State from Prehistory to the Present (co-edited
with Joel Eastman and Edwin Churchill; University of Maine Press,
1995)
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Common Lands, Common People: The Origins of Conservation in Northern
New England (Harvard University Press, 1997)
Work in Progress:
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The Untilled Garden: Natural History and the Origins of American Conservation, 1730-1840 (a book-length study of
early American explorers and naturalists and their contribution to an
ecological understanding of the trans-Appalachian frontier).
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