Jared Farmer (born 1974) is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in environmental history, landscape studies, and the North American West.

Biography

Jared Farmer gained his BA from Utah State University in 1996, and his MA from the University of Montana in 1999. He earned his PhD at

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in 2005. From 2005, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California. In 2007, he joined the history faculty at

Stony Brook University Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university in Stony Brook, New York. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is one of the State University of New York system's ...

. In 2020 he moved to the University of Pennsylvania, where he is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History.

Awards and distinctions

Farmer's book ''On Zion's Mount'' won the 2009 Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians. His book ''Trees in Paradise'' won the 2015

Ray Allen Billington Prize The Ray Allen Billington Prize is given biennially by the Organization of American Historians (OAH) for the best book about American frontier history. The "American frontier" includes all of North and South America, all post-1492 pioneer experiences ...

from the

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. In 2014 Farmer received the Hiett Prize the Humanities from the Dallas Institute. In 2017 he was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the

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. In 2018 the American Academy in Berlin awarded him a Berlin Prize.

Bibliography

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References

External links

* Jared Farmer'
website
* Jared Farmer's universit
profile
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