Nicolaas J. Mink


Office: 236 CCC

Phone: 346-4493

E-mail: nmink@uwsp.edu

Title:  Associate Lecturer

Education:

Ph.D. (expected 2010) University of Wisconsin-Madison

M.A. University of Montana

B.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison

 


Courses Taught:

History 177 United States Since 1877

Dissertation:  "The Tourist's Table: Taste, Technology, and the Making of the American Culinary Landscape"

Publications:

 

"Cooking in the Countryside: The Rural Reform of Taste and the Wisconsin Farmers' Institute's Cooking Schools," Wisconsin Magazine of History (Winter 2008-2009).

 

"It Begins in the Belly:  Food's Place in Environmental History," Environmental History 14:1 (January 2009).

 

"A (Napoleon) Dynamite Identity: Rural Idaho, the Politics of Place, and the Creation of a New Western Film," Western Historical Quarterly, 39:2 (Summer 2008): 153-175

 

"Eating the Claws of Eden: Stone Crabs, Tourism, and the Taste of Conservation in Florida and Beyond," Florida Historical Quarterly, (Spring 2008).

 

"Selling the Storied Stone Crab: Eating, Ecology and the Creation of South Florida Culture," Gastronomica: Journal of Food and Culture 6:3 (Fall 2006): 32-43.

 

"A Narrative for Nature's Nation: Constance Lindsay Skinner and the Making of Rivers of America," Environmental History 11:3 (October 2006): 751-773

 

"Improving the Upper Fox: Nature and the Hopes of Men," Voyageur Magazine: Northeast Wisconsin's Historical Review, (Summer/Fall 2005): 46-58