Jared Farmer

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 American West.

Farmer's book On Zion's Mount won the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians. His book Trees in Paradise won the Ray Allen Billington Prize from the Organization of American Historians. In 2014 Farmer received the Hiett Prize the Humanities from the Dallas Institute. In 2017 he was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. In 2018 the American Academy in Berlin awarded him a Berlin Prize.

Bibliography[]

• Jared Farmer (1999). Glen Canyon Dammed: Inventing Lake Powell and the Canyon Country. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 978-0-8165-1887-6.
• Jared Farmer (2009). On Zion's mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American landscape. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-03671-0.
• Jared Farmer (2013). Trees in Paradise: A California History. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-07802-2.

External links[]

• Jared Farmer's website.
• Jared Farmer's university profile.
• Jared Farmer's CV.