Louis S. Warren

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Louis S. Warren
Born (1962-12-08) December 8, 1962 (age 59)
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Columbia University (BA)
Yale University (PhD)
Occupation Historian
Employer University of California, Davis
Known forUS Western and Environmental History
Website louiswarren.com

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]

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Early life and education

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

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

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