Environmental history, 20th-century US social/political historyLecturer
Ph.D., U. of Kansas, 2006 Office: 330 LeConte
Office Hours: MWF - 2:15-3:15
Phone: (706) 542-6300 bdrake@uga.edu [Download CV] Brian Allen Drake specializes in environmental history, a discipline which explores the intricate ways in which nature has affected human history and vice versa. His recent research focuses on the postwar American environmental movement, particularly its relationship to postwar politics and ideology. His book, Loving Nature, Fearing the State: Environmentalism and Antigovernment Politics Before Reagan, will be published in the summer of 2013 by the University of Washington Press in its Weyerhaeuser Environmental Series. He is currently editing a volume on the environmental history of the Civil War for the University of Georgia Press, to appear in the spring of 2014. Drake has published articles in Great Plains Quarterly, the Georgia Historical Quarterly, and Environmental History, many book reviews, and recently contributed a chapter to Barry Goldwater and the Remaking of the American Political Landscape, published by the University of Arizona Press. In 2005 he received the Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award Foundation's Eddie Jacobson Scholarship to support his dissertation research. Prior to arriving at UGA, Drake taught for two years in the Humanities and Western Civilization program at the University of Kansas. Drake earned his B.A. in history at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and his M.A. in U.S. history from the University of Georgia. |
