Jared Farmer
{{Short description|American historian}}
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 earned his BA from Utah State University in 1996, his MA from the University of Montana in 1999, and his PhD from Stanford University in 2005.
From 2005 to 2007, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern California. In 2007, he joined the history faculty at Stony Brook University.{{cite web |title=Jared Farmer |url=https://live-sas-www-history.pantheon.sas.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/2022-07/Farmer-CV-July-2022.pdf |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=31 August 2022}} In 2020, he moved to the University of Pennsylvania, where he is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History.{{cite web |title=Jared Farmer |url=https://www.history.upenn.edu/people/faculty/jared-farmer |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=31 August 2022}}
Awards and distinctions
Farmer's book On Zion's Mount won the 2009 Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians.{{cite web |title=Francis Parkman Prize |url=https://sah.columbia.edu/content/prizes/francis-parkman-prize |publisher=Society of American Historians |access-date=31 August 2022}} His book Trees in Paradise won the 2015 Ray Allen Billington Prize from the Organization of American Historians.{{cite web |title=Ray Allen Billington Prize Winners |url=https://www.oah.org/awards/book-awards/ray-allen-billington-prize/winners/ |publisher=Organization of American Historians |access-date=31 August 2022}} His book Elderflora won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History from the American Philosophical Society. In 2014, Farmer received the Hiett Prize in the Humanities from the Dallas Institute. In 2017 he was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the following year the American Academy in Berlin awarded him a Berlin Prize. Farmer delivered the 28th annual Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture in 2023.
Bibliography
- {{cite book |author=Jared Farmer |title=Glen Canyon Dammed: Inventing Lake Powell and the Canyon Country |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XlcRUHuv8DsC |year=1999 |publisher=University of Arizona Press |isbn=978-0-8165-1887-6 |ref=none }}
- {{cite book |author=Jared Farmer |author-mask=——— |title=On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American landscape |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eoMI5YWu1gsC |year=2009 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-03671-0 |ref=none }}
- {{cite book |author=Jared Farmer |author-mask=——— |title=Trees in Paradise: A California History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gb98AQAAQBAJ |year=2013 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=978-0-393-07802-2 |ref=none }}
- {{cite book |author=Jared Farmer |author-mask=——— |title=Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DDNdEAAAQBAJ |year=2022 |publisher=Basic Books |isbn=978-0-465-09785-2 |ref=none }}
- {{cite book |author=Jared Farmer |author-mask=——— |title=The Sound of Mormonism: A Media History of Latter-day Saints |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Sound_of_Mormonism/lpgH0QEACAAJ |year=2025 |publisher=USU Press |isbn=978-1-64642-703-1 |ref=none }}
References
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External links
- Jared Farmer's [https://jaredfarmer.net/ website].
- Jared Farmer's university [https://www.history.upenn.edu/people/faculty/jared-farmer/ profile].
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