Changing Mines in America
November 20, 2012
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/584910.Changing_Mines_in_America Changing Mines in America by Peter Goin, C. Elizabeth Raymond Most Americans today view mines as little…
C. Elizabeth Raymond
Elizabeth Raymond offers undergraduate and graduate course work in U.S. history, including Social History, Intellectual History, Women and Families in the U.S., Colonial History, and a senior capstone course on Creating North American Landscapes. Special topics and directed readings courses in these general areas are also possible at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Graduate seminars include Nature and Culture in America, Gender in U.S. History, and U.S. Social History. Graduate examination and dissertation fields include American Social/Cultural History, American Studies, History of Landscape and Environmental History, American regionalism. Her awards include various research fellowships, as well as the Alan Bible Teaching Excellence Award and the Mousel-Feltner Award for Research, both in the College of Arts and Science. She is the author or editor of three books: George Wingfield: Owner and Operator of Nevada (University of Nevada Press, 1992); with Peter Goin, Stopping Time: A Rephotographic Survey of Lake Tahoe (University of New Mexico Press, 1992); and with co-editor Ronald James, Comstock Women: The Making of a Mining Community (University of Nevada Press, 1997). Raymond is also the author of a wide range of articles and review essays. Her current research interests are interdisciplinary and include American landscape and sense of place, American regionalism, and American women's history. Her most recent book, published in 2004, is an interdisciplinary study--with landscape photographer Peter Goin–of the physical and cultural legacies of mining in the U.S. Published by the Center for the American Places/University of Chicago Press, Changing Mines in America examines eight specific mining and post-mining landscapes. Currently the two are collaborating on a study of photographer Arthur Rothstein's 1940 images of Nevada, to be published by the University of Nevada Press.
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