Phoebe S. K.Young

  • Professor
  • Department Chair
  • ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY / MODERN US
Address

Muenzinger D110 #11

Office Hours

T 2:00-3:30 PM or by appointment / Zoom by request

Professor Young focuses on thecultural and environmental history ofthe modern United States and the American West.

At the undergraduate level, Professor Young teaches courses including "U.S. History since 1865," "Environmental History of North America,""History and Memory in American Culture"and "History of Outdoor Recreation."Her graduate offerings include "Cultural History and Theory," “Visual Culture,”and "Memory and History in Global Perspective." Professor Young seeks to support student learning at all levels and to advance the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History.She is the recipient of the 2016 Boulder Faculty Assembly Award for Distinction in Teaching and Pedagogy and the 2020 Award for Teaching with Technology from Ƶ’s Arts & Sciences Support of Education Through Technology.

Professor Young received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College and her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.Her most recent book,(Oxford University Press, 2021), traces the hidden history of camping and the outdoors in American life that connects a familiar recreational pastime to camps for functional needs and political purposes. Camping Grounds was reviewed in in April 2022 and won the from the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association.Her first book,(University of California Press, 2006, published under her previous name of Phoebe S. Kropp), examined public memories of the Spanish past, the built environment, regional development, and race relations in Southern California between the 1880s and the 1930s. She co-edited an anthology entitled(with Marguerite S. Shaffer, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), including a co-authored introductory essay on “The Nature-Culture Paradox.” She is also co-editor (with Annie Gilbert Coleman) of a new book series at the University of Washington Press: “.” She has received multiple research grants, including fellowships from the Henry E. Huntington Library, the Smithsonian Institution, and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Professor Young is acceptingM.A. and Ph.D. students.

Recent graduates have worked on the history of modern American Judaism and homosexuality, immigrant detention in the Southwest, transnational black consciousness movements in the Americas, and Colorado coal strikes in history and memory.