Louis S. Warren

Louis S. Warren
Born Louis Samuel Warren
(1962-12-08) December 8, 1962
Pocatello, Idaho
Residence California, U.S.
Nationality American
Alma mater Yale University
Occupation Historian
Employer University of California, Davis
Known for US Western and Environmental History

Louis S Warren (born December 8, 1962) is an American historian and a W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western U.S. History at the University of California, Davis,[1] where he teaches environmental history, the history of the American West, and U.S. history.[2]

Early Years

Warren was born in Pocatello, Idaho he is the third child of Claude and Elizabeth Warren.[3]

Education

Warren attended a two-room schoolhouse in the ghost town of Goodsprings, Nevada, and attended Basic High School in Henderson, Nevada.[4] He was a British American Education Foundation Scholar at Cranleigh School, Surrey, UK, in 1980 – 81, and did his undergraduate work in history at Columbia University in New York, where he graduated in 1985.[4]

He became a teacher at Peterhouse School in Zimbabwe from 1985 until 1987.

In 1988, he began graduate study at Yale University, where he received his Ph.D. in history in 1993.[4]

Professional career

In addition to teaching at UC Davis, Warren has written or edited several books on US Western and Environmental History. He is the co-editor of Boom: A Journal of California.[5]

Awards

He has received numerous awards for his writing, including:

Publications

Reviews

Sources

  1. "Seminar Participants: "California Convergences: People, Places, Products" (Winter 2010)". UC Davis Humanities Institute. 2010. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
  2. "Louis Warren". Department of History, UC Davis. Retrieved 24 July 2011.
  3. Winslow, Diane Lynne; Wedding, Jeffrey R.; Schneider, Joan S. (2000). "Claude Nelson Warren: An introduction to his life and times". In Schneider, Joan S.; Yohe II, Robert M; Gardner, Jill K. Archaeological Passages: a volume in honor of Claude Nelson Warren. Number 1. Hemet, California: Western Center for Archaeology and Paleontology, Publications in Archaeology. pp. 1–7. ISBN 0-9713558-0-0.
  4. 1 2 3 "Bio". Louis S. Warren. Retrieved 24 July 2011.
  5. "Editorial Board". Boom: A Journal of California.
  6. "Larom Summer Institute Institute of Western American Studies". H-Net Discussion Networks. Retrieved 24 July 2011.
  7. "Past Book Prize Winners". Center For Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
  8. "Albert J. Beveridge Award". American Historical Association. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
  9. Larry Schwartz. "The Caughey-Western History Association Prize". Moorhead, Minnesota: Livingston Lord Library, Minnesota State University. Retrieved 24 July 2011.
  10. "Spur Award History". Western Writers of America, Inc. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
  11. "2011 Fellows - United States and Canada". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
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