{"id":284,"date":"2021-11-29T16:11:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T22:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/?post_type=uwsp_faculty&#038;p=13780"},"modified":"2025-06-06T12:56:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T17:56:59","slug":"neil-prendergast","status":"publish","type":"uwsp_directory","link":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/profile\/neil-prendergast\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Prendergast"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">BIO<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Professor 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&#8217;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.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PUBLICATIONS<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Prendergast, N. (2011). &#8220;Raising the Thanksgiving Turkey: Agroecology, Gender, and the Knowledge of Nature.&#8221; Environmental History. Vol. 16:4 651-677. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/envhis\/emr046\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/envhis\/emr046<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Prendergast, N. (2008). &#8220;Tracking the Kaibab Deer into Western History.&#8221; Western Historical Quarterly. Vol. 39:4, 413-438. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2307\/25443778\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2307\/25443778<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>American Historical Association<\/li>\r\n<li>American Society for Environmental History<\/li>\r\n<li>American Studies Association<\/li>\r\n<li>Network in Canadian History and Environment<\/li>\r\n<li>Western History Association<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">AWARDS<\/h3>\r\n<p>UW-Stevens Point University Award for Excellence in Teaching &#8211; 2024<\/p>\r\n<h3>ADVICE<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Get to know your fellow students. You can learn a lot from them, not just from the professor. And please, read the syllabus!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">QUOTE<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;Go outside!&#8221; &#8211; John Stilgoe<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FUN FACT<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>When he was growing up, he wanted to be an architect.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Prendergast is an associate professor of history at UW-Stevens Point in the Department of History and International Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"phone":"715-346-2334","email":"nprender@uwsp.edu","office":"CCC 468","title":"","building":"","room":"","website":"","bio":"","image":"","pronouns":"","first_name":"Neil  ","last_name":"Prendergast","position-type":["Faculty"],"education":[{"degree":"Ph.D. - History","school":"University of Arizona","year":""},{"degree":"M.A. - History","school":"Miami University ","year":""},{"degree":"B.A. - Economics","school":"Miami University ","year":""}],"courses":[{"number":"","name":"Designing the American Dream "},{"number":"","name":"Food and History"},{"number":"","name":"U.S. Environmental History "},{"number":"","name":"United States since 1877"},{"number":"","name":"The Environmental Movement "}],"titles":[{"title":"Professor  "},{"title":"Coordinator, Environmental Studies Minor"}]},"department":[3,64,56],"class_list":["post-284","uwsp_directory","type-uwsp_directory","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","department-cols","department-histint","department-shgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uwsp_directory\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uwsp_directory"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/uwsp_directory"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}