Brian Donahue

Associate Professor of American Environmental Studies
on the Jack Meyerhoff Foundation
Director, Environmental Studies Program
Department of American Studies
Brandeis University

MS005
Waltham, MA 02454-9110
781-736-3091 (voice)
781-736-3040 (fax)
bdonahue@brandeis.edu

Further Information: http://www.brandeis.edu/academics/environmental/faculty/rNvVY2MUUUvrTAQ282393

EDUCATION

1995 PhD History, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1993 MA History, Brandeis University
1982 BA History, Brandeis University

APPOINTMENTS

1997 - Director, Environmental Studies Program, Brandeis University
2003 - Associate Professor of American Environmental Studies, Brandeis University
2002 - Environmental Historian, Harvard Forest, Harvard University
1997 - 2004 Director, Environmental Studies Program, Brandeis University
1994 - 97 Director of Education, The Land Institute, Salina, KS
1993 - 94 Historian, Minuteman National Historic Park, Concord, MA
1980 - 92 Director, Land's Sake, Weston, MA
1975 - 79 Assistant Director, Green Power Farm, Weston, MA

ORGANIZATIONS

2001 - Member, Weston Conservation Commission
2002 - Member, Weston Community Preservation Committee
2003 - Trustee, Weston Forest & Trail Association
1994 - 97 Board member, Kansas Land Trust
1980 - 2001 Board member, Land's Sake
1991 - 4, 98 - Board member, Weston Land Trust
1998 - Board member, Thoreau Farm Trust
2002 - Trustee, Spannocchia Foundation

FELLOWSHIPS

2005 Harvard Forest Bullard Fellow
2000 Brandeis University Bernstein Fellowship
1997 National Endowment for the Humanities Independent Scholar Fellowship
1982 - 83 Watson Fellowship

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Donahue, B. 2004. The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord. Yale University Press .
______. 1999. Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farming and Forestry in a New England Town, New Haven. Yale University Press.

Articles

Donahue, B. 2003. The Resettling of America. In N. Wirzba (Ed.), The Essential Agrarian Reader. University Press of Kentucky.
______. 2001. Reclaiming the Commons, excerpted chapter. In E. T. Freyfogle, ed., The New Agrarianism: Land, Culture, and the Community of Life. Island Press.
______. 2000. History, Work, and the Nature of Beauty:A Massachusetts Community Forest. Journal of Forestry.
______. 1997. Dammed at Both Ends and Cursed in the Middle: The 'Flowage' of the Concord River Meadows, 1798 - 1862. In C. Miller and H. Rothman, (Eds.),Out of the Woods: Essays in Environmental History, Pittsburgh. University of Pittsburg Press.
______. 1996. Community Farming in Massachusetts. In W. Vitek and W. Jackson (Eds.), Rooted in the Land, New Haven. Yale University Press.
______. 1993. Henry David Thoreau and the Environment of Concord. In E. Schofield and R. C. Baron (Eds.), Thoreau's World and Ours, Golden, CO. North American Press.

Reviews

Donahue, B. 2003. Review of M. Williams, Deforesting the Earth, Science.
______. 2003. Review of S. Stoll, Larding the Lean Earth. Journal of American History.
______. 2002. Review of J. Cumbler, Reasonable Use. Journal of American History.
______. 2001. Review of M. Berger, Thoreau's late career and The dispersion of seeds, Agricultural History Review.
______. 2001. Review of G. Samuels, Enduring Roots. Journal of American History.
______. 1998. Review of P. D. McClelland, Sowing Modernity:America's First Agricultural Revolution, Journal of American History.

Conference Papers

Donahue, B. 2002. Walden Woods: Reconciling Preservation and Use in Thoreau Country. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Geographers Association.
______. 2002. The Resettling of America. Future of Agrarianism Conference.
______. 2002. The Great Meadow: Colonial Husbandry in Concord, Massachusetts. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Environmental History.
______. 2001. Whose Woods are These?: Historical Ecology, Environmental History, and the Management of Jericho Forest, Weston, Massachusetts. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Environmental History.
______. 2000. Thoreau Country Forest:The History and Prospects of Suburban Community Forests in Eastern Massachusetts. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Environmental History.
______. 1988. Skinning the Land: Economic Growth and the Ecology of Farming in Nineteenth Century Massachusetts. Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association.

Dissertation

Plowland, Pastureland, Woodland and Meadow: Husbandry in Concord, Massachusetts,1635 - 1771. Brandeis University, 1995.