David M. Wrobel

david.wrobel@unlv.edu

Department of History
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
4505 Maryland Parkway, Box 455020 
Las Vegas, NV 89154-5020

EMPLOYMENT:

• History Department Chair, University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) (July 2008-)
• Professor of History, UNLV (July, 2004-).
• Associate Professor of History UNLV (2000-04).
• Associate Professor of History (1998-2000); Chair (August 1997-December 1998—on leave Spring 1999); Assistant Professor (1994-98), Widener University.
• Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Hartwick College (1992-94).
• Visiting Assistant Professor of History, The College of Wooster (1991-92) and Visiting Instructor (1990-91).

EDUCATION:

• Ph.D., American Intellectual History, Ohio University, June 1991.
• M.A., American Intellectual History, Ohio University, October 1987.
• B.A., History/Philosophy, University of Kent, Canterbury, England, July 1985.

AREAS OF EMPHASIS:

U.S. West, Regionalism, American Thought and Culture, Late Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century U.S., Historiography.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

• Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory, and the Creation of the American West (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002).
• The End of American Exceptionalism: Frontier Anxiety from the Old West to the New Deal (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993).

Books in Progress:

• “The World in the West: Travelers’ Accounts, 1840-2000” (Calvin Horn Book Series, University of New Mexico Press).
• “Frontier Legacies in Cold War America”
• “The West and the Nation, 1900-2000: A Regional History”

Co-Edited Collections:

Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West, primary co-editor, with Patrick Long (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001).
Many Wests: Place, Culture, and Regional Identity, co-editor, with Michael C. Steiner (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997).

COURSES TAUGHT:

• US Survey to 1865
• US Survey since 1865
• US West: 1849-Present
• Graduate Research Seminar, US West
• Graduate Colloquium: Regionalism & the West
• Graduate Colloquium: US West Thought & Culture
• Graduate Seminar: US West, Historiography
• Early American Thought
• Modern American Thought
• American Thought, 1920s & 1930s
• American Thought, 1950s & 1960s
• Gilded Age
• Progressive Era
• Between the Wars
• US Since 1945
• Historical Methods
• Colonial, & Modern Latin America
• Capstone Seminar: American Values
• Undergraduate Research Seminar

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