Neil Prendergast

BIO

Neil Prendergast has spent the past decade sharing his passion for environmental history and historic preservation in the UW-Stevens Point Department of History. Prendergast’s other research interests include local and U.S. history as well as food history. He is also the coordinator of the Environmental Studies Minor.

PUBLICATIONS

Prendergast, N. (2011). “Raising the Thanksgiving Turkey: Agroecology, Gender, and the Knowledge of Nature.” Environmental History. Vol. 16:4 651-677. https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emr046

Prendergast, N. (2008). “Tracking the Kaibab Deer into Western History.” Western Historical Quarterly. Vol. 39:4, 413-438. https://doi.org/10.2307/25443778

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• American Historical Association
• American Society for Environmental History
• American Studies Association
• Network in Canadian History and Environment
• Western History Association

ADVICE

Get to know your fellow students. You can learn a lot from them, not just from the professor. And please, read the syllabus!

QUOTE

“Go outside!” – John Stilgoe

FUN FACT

When he was growing up, he wanted to be an architect.