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• More Info: https://www2.cortland.edu/departments/history/laura-gathagan

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• Bio: I am a historian of modern North Africa and France, studying the intersections among environment, colonialism, urbanism, and technology. My work examines environmental knowledge and spatial perceptions, analyzing how these abstract notions translate into attempts to remake built and natural environments. In addition to my work in French colonial history, I also have backgrounds in Russian and Central Asian history, as well as an interest in the environmental history of the American West. My current book project, expanding on my doctoral dissertation, examines French efforts to remake the urban and rural landscapes of its North African colonies through the implementation of large-scale development projects. For this project, have conducted archival and field work across France and the Maghreb. As a historian with many years of secondary teaching experience in both public and private school settings, I teach courses and oversee candidates in the history department’s social studies teacher preparation program. I also currently serve as the Deputy Editor of Environment and History, a journal published by The White Horse Press.
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• Areas of interest: environmental history, colonialism, urban history, North Africa, Europe, social studies teacher education, secondary curriculum
• Education: PhD, University at Albany; MA, University at Albany; BA & BS, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
• Website: https://www.tysonluneau.com

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• CV: https://hcommons.org/app/uploads/sites/1000360/bp-attachment-xprofile/Moranda_CV_2024_short.pdf
• Scholarship: I am a historian of Germany and the German-speaking world, focusing on environmental history, the history of tourism, and ethnic/national identity formation. My current book project explores that transatlantic migration of conservation ideas among German-speakers. Subjects under investigation include German-American agricultural journalists and foresters whose promotion of land ethics contributed to the construction of a common German ethnic identity and offered opportunities to challenge Anglo-American cultural hegemony. In addition, travelers and scientific experts from Germany traveled to North America where they often collaborated with the aforementioned German-Americans. Together, their critiques of "Yankee plunder" also linked land ethics to nation building and imperialism in Germany. Even as these cultural exchanges proliferated, German-speaking conservationists, agronomists and foresters contributed to the intentional and unintentional exchange of plants, animals, fungi, and viruses that often disrupted their political and cultural projects.
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• Areas of interest: environmental history, Germany, transatlantic migrations, Central Europe (19th and 20th centuries), history of nationalism, Modern Europe
• Teaching: I teach courses such as World Environmental History, German History, The Holocaust, the history of tourism, 19th Century Central and Eastern Europe, and 20th Century Europe

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