Sam Truett, associate professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been selected for inclusion in the History News Network’s Top Young Historians feature. Truett has taught at UNM since 1998. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University and has been a Fulbright Lecturer in Finland and a Mellon Research Fellow at the Huntington Library. http://hnn.us/roundup/49.html
Photo: Associate Professor Sam Truett
He was recently chosen for the Lloyd Lewis Fellowship in American History for 2008-2009 at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
“I’m flattered to have been chosen and I am pleased to represent the larger fields of borderlands history, environmental history and western U.S. history. I am pleased to bring attention to UNM’s history department and our strengths at both the graduate and undergraduate levels in borderlands history, environmental history, western U.S. and Latin American history,” Truett said.
He also hopes that posting information about his research areas on the History News Network site will encourage students and colleagues to consider the importance of these topics.
While at the Newberry, Truett will complete research on his second book project, “Old New Worlds: Ruins, Borderlands, and Empire in America.” In this book, Truett examines the U.S. fascination with ruins and antiquity in the nation’s expanding borderlands, from the eighteenth century on. Truett will draw on the rich Native American, Latin American and Western Americana collections at the Newberry Library to track this fascination with ruins across the broad sweep of U.S. frontier and borderlands history.
Truett’s first book was, “Fugitive Landscapes: The forgotten history of the U.S. – Mexico borderlands,” Yale University Press, and he co-edited “Continental Crossroads: Remapping U.S. – Mexico borderlands history,” published by Duke University Press.
Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; email: cgonzal@unm.edu
Posted by scarr at April 17, 2008 03:57 PM