Dr. Colin Fisher Associate Professor PhD, University of California, Irvine. 1999 Research specialties:   U.S. Environmental History, Ethnic History Teaching specialties:   Environmental History, History of the American West, U.S. Indian History, M.A. Writing Seminar

Selected publications:

• Nature From the Bottom Up: Immigrants, African-Americans, Industrial Workers, and Outdoor Recreation in Chicago, 1900-1940 (work in progress)
• "Back to Nature: African Americans, Outdoor Recreation, and the 1919 Chicago Race Riot," in To Love the Wind and the Rain: Essays in African American Environmental History, eds. Dianne Glave and Mark Stoll (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005)
• "Charles Eastman" in Encyclopedia of World Environmental History, ed. Shepard Krech III, John R. McNeill and Carolyn Merchant (New York: Routledge, 2003)
• The National Parks Movement in the United States, in World History Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO) (forthcoming)
• Parks, in Encyclopedia of the Modern World (Oxford University Press)

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Office:   Institute of Peace and Justice (IPJ) 279
Phone:   (619) 260-4039
Email:   colinf@sandiego.edu
Webpage:   http://www.sandiego.edu/~colinf