Thursday, 26 Sep 2024
Emily Dickinson at the County Fair: The Land Grant College and the Birth of Agricultural Capitalism
A specialist in U.S. literature from 1850-2000, Maria Farland taught at Johns Hopkins, Columbia, and Wesleyan Universities before accepting a permanent position at Fordham University in New York City. Her forthcoming book, Degraded Heartland: Antipastoral, Agricultural Reform, and the Rural Modern in U.S. Literature, 1840-1950 (Johns Hopkins UP), is a history of ideas of rural backwardness in terms of antipastoral as a literary...
Tribal Land Management: Balancing the Triple Bottom Line of Environmental Stewardship
2024 Paul L. Errington Memorial Lecture Dr. Serra Hoagland (Laguna Pueblo) works for the USDA Forest Service Research & Development branch as the National Program Lead for Tribal Research. She focuses on building local, regional and national partnerships with tribes and intertribal organizations, mentoring students in natural resources, and conducting research that is relevant to Native communities. As the first Native American to...