HR-Dr. Richard Judd

Office of Human Resources

Dr. Richard Judd is a cornerstone of the Department of History because of his outstanding scholarship, teaching, and dedicated participation in University of Maine and community activities. Dick has a well-earned reputation as a meticulous, imaginative, and productive scholar. Indeed, Dick is the most prolific scholar in the department having published five books covering topics such as environmental history, American radicalism, urban history, and the history of Maine. His sixth book, The Untilled Garden: Science, Religion, and Conservation in America, 1730-1850, will be published this year by Cambridge University Press. This book highlights the contributions made by the generation of natural historians who pioneered the utilitarian, ecological, and aesthetic arguments for protecting or preserving nature in America.

In 2008 Dick was chosen to become the inaugural holder of the Col. James C. McBride Professorship. The selection was based on Dick’s reputation as one of the nation’s leading environmental historians, exemplified by his aforementioned prolific scholarship, his active mentorship to graduate students, and his involvement in an array of projects that connect the department and the University to the state of Maine. It is worth emphasizing that Dick’s role as Graduate Coordinator and as mentor to dozens of Master of Arts and doctoral students has been central to the success of the History Department’s graduate program. Dick has done all this hard work with persistent optimism and genuine respect and concern for his co-workers and students.

Dick, please know that the University of Maine genuinely appreciates your accomplishments and contributions over the past 25 years.