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Nancy Langston
Distinguished Professor of Environmental History
Michigan Technological University
AOB 209, 1400 Townsend Dr.
Houghton MI 49916
nelangs3@mtu.edu

Education
Dartmouth College English BA 1984
University of Oxford English MPhil 1986
University of Washington Environmental Studies PhD 1994
University of Washington Zoology Postdoctoral 1994-5

Appointments
2013-on Distinguished Professor of Environmental History, Department of Social Sciences and Great
Lakes Research Center, Michigan Technological University
2012-2013 King Carl XVI Gustaf Professor of Environmental Science, Department of Historical, Philo-
sophical and Religious studies, Umeå University, Sweden.
2007-2012 Professor, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and Dept. of Forest and Wildlife Ecol-
ogy. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2001-2007 Associate Professor, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and Dept. of Forest Ecology
& Management. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
1995-2001 Assistant Professor, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and Dept. of Forest Ecology
& Management. University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Awards
1. American Society for Environmental History Distinguished Scholar Award, 2021.
2. Appointed to the inaugural group of Distinguished Professors at Michigan Tech, July 2018.
3. American Society for Environmental History Distinguished Service Award, March 2018.
4. Honorary Doctorate, Umeå University Sweden, 2014.
5. King Carl XVI Gustaf Professorship, Umeå University Sweden, 2012-2013.
6. American Society for Environmental History, President 2007-9.
7. Winner, Leopold-Hidy Prize for best article published in Environmental History, 2009.
8. Organization of American Historians, Distinguished Lecturer, 2007-2010.
9. Winner, Forest History Society Weyerhaeuser Book Prize for Forest Dreams, 1997.
10. Marshall Fellow, Oxford University. 1984-1986.
11. Dartmouth: National Merit Scholar, highest honors in the major, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta
Kappa, Perkins Prize for best thesis in major.

Grants (over $1,200,000 in competitive funding)

1. Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Sustainability Solutions, Lakehead University Thunder Bay,
Winter 2021, $25,000
2. Mellon Fellow in Environmental Humanities, Center for Environmental Futures, University of Ore-
gon, Fall 2020, $40,000
3. National Science Foundation Research Grant, PI, STS Program, The New Mobilities of the Anthro-
pocene: Climate Change, Resilience, and Animal Migrations, 2019-2022, $391,000.
4. National Science Foundation Research Grant, PI, STS Program, Toxic Mobilizations in Lake Supe-
rior, 2014-2017, $239,000.
5. Supervisor, Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship competition, NSERC, $70,000 awarded to Prof. Dan-
iel Macfarlane.

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 6. King’s Professorship, Umea University, stipend: $90,000
7. UW-Madison Graduate School Research Competitions. 2006 ($9000), 2007 ($10,000), 2009
($26,393), 2012 ($14,000).
8. American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship, 2009-2010, $40,000. Support for research
on boreal forest history.
9. NSF workshop grant, 2007, $15,000. Organized the Toxic Bodies workshop at ASEH conference.
10. National Council for Science and Sustainable Forestry workshop grant, 2006, $30,000.
11. Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute workshop award, $2000, 2006 (sponsoring
a visit by Dr Ann Bartuska of the USDA Forest Service)
12. Mc-Intire-Stennis Grant, USDA, 2003-2006, $75,754. 4 years of PhD research funding to support
projects on the ecological history of northern Wisconsin forests.
13. Vilas Associates Award, 2002-2004, $55,000. To support research on northern WI forest history.
14. American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2002-2003, $35,000. Environmental history of
endocrine disruptors.
15. National Humanities Center Fellowship 1997, $20,000. Environmental history of Great Basin wet-
lands.
16. National Marine Fisheries Service grant, $30,000, 1993-4. Research on Laysan and blackfooted al-
batross molt patterns.
17. American Philosophical Society, Michaux Silvicultural History Grant, $5000, 1993. Research on
fire-adapted forests in the Blue Mountains of Oregon.
18. NSF Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, 1988-1991. $36,000 stipend + tuition. Research in Zimbabwe on
carmine beeeaters.

Recent Publications
Books (5)
1. Langston, N. 2021. Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in the Anthropocene. Brandeis University
Press.
2. Langston. N. 2017 Sustaining Lake Superior: An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World. Yale U.
Press. Paperback March 2019.
3. Langston, N. 2010. Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES. Yale U. Press. Paper-
back 2012. Chinese translation released June 2019.
4. Langston, N. 2003. Where Land and Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed. University of
Washington Press. Paperback 2007.
5. Langston, N. 1995. Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: the Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland
West. University of Washington Press. Paperback 1996.

Peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters (52 peer-reviewed)

1. Langston, NL and K. Brosemer, “Loons and the risk of extinction in a warming world,” In press, En-
vironmental History 27 (April 2022).
2. Nguyen, Sun V., Nancy Langston, Adam Wellstead, and Michael Howlett. “Mining the Evidence:
Public Comments and Evidence-Based Policymaking in the Controversial Minnesota PolyMet Min-
ing Project.” Resources Policy 69 (December 1, 2020): 101842. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resour-
pol.2020.101842.
3. Langston, N. 2019. “Environment and sustainability in mining.” Chapter for Environment and Sus-
tainability in a Globalizing World, Ed. A. Nightingale and T Bohler, Routledge.
4. Dockry, M. and N. Langston. 2019. Indigenous Protest and the Roots of Sustainable Forestry in Bo-
livia. Environmental History 24 (1): 52-77.
5. Langston, N. E. 2018. “DOCUMERICA and the power of environmental history.”Environmental His-
tory. 23 (1): 106-116.
6. Baeten, J. P., Langston, N., Lafreniere, D. J. 2018. “A Spatial Evaluation of Historic Iron Mining Im-
pacts on Current Impaired Waters in Lake Superior's Mesabi Range.” Ambio 47 (2): 231-244.

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7. Langston, N. E. 2018. “Understanding the entangled human and natural histories of toxic chemicals.”
Journal of Ecological History (China).
8. Langston, N. 2017. “The Wisconsin Experiment.” Places Journal. April 2017 https://placesjour-
nal.org/article/the-wisconsin-experiment/
9. Langston, N. 2017 “Iron Mines, Toxicity, and Indigenous Communities in the Lake Superior Basin,”
pp. 313-338 in Mining North America, eds. G. Vrtis and J. McNeil, U of CA Press.
10. Langston, N. 2017. “Resiliency and Collapse: Lake Trout, Sea Lamprey, and Fisheries Manage-
ment in Lake Superior.” Pp. 239-262 in Lynne Heasley and Daniel Macfarlane, eds Border Flows: A
Century of Canadian-American Water Relations, U. Calgary Press.
11. John Baeten, Nancy Langston, and Don Lafreniere. 2016. “A geospatial approach to uncovering the
hidden waste footprint of Lake Superior’s Mesabi Iron Range.” The Extractive Industries and Soci-
ety 3(4): 1031-1045.
12. Langston, N. 2016. La convergence entre santé humaine et santé environnementale: le toxaphène
dans le lac Supérieur, Sciences Sociales et Santé, 34: 103-123.
13. Mårald, E., N. Langston, J. Moen, and A. Stens. 2016. “Changing ideas in forestry: a comparison of
concepts in Swedish and American forestry journals during the early 20th and 21st centuries.” Ambio
45 Suppl 2: 74-86.
14. Thistle, J. and N. Langston. 2016. “Entangled histories: Iron ore mining in Canada and the United
States.” The Extractive Industries and Society 3(2): 269-277.
15. Steen-Adams, M. M., Langston, N., Adams, M.D., & Mladenoff, D. J. 2015. “Historical framework
to explain long-term coupled human and natural system feedbacks: application to a multiple-owner-
ship forest landscape in the northern Great Lakes region, USA.” Ecology and Society, 20(1): 28ff.
16. Langston, N. 2015. “Thinking Like A Microbe: Borders and Environmental History.” Canadian His-
torical Review. 95(4): 592-603.
17. Langston, N. 2014. “Precaution and the History of Endocrine Disruptors.” in Powerless Science?
Science and Politics in a Toxic World, ed. S. Boudia and N Jas. New York: Berghahn Books. 29-45.
18. Langston, N. 2014. “New Chemical Bodies: Synthetic Chemicals, Regulation, and Health.” Chapter
for Oxford Handbook of Environmental History, ed. Andrew Isenberg. 259-281.
19. Langston, N. 2014. "Environmental Historians in a Changing World: Evolution, Environmental
Health, and Climate Change." Invited essay for Journal of Renmin University of China.
20. Langston, N. 2014. "Endocrine Disruptors in the Environment." In Daniel Kleinman, ed. Controver-
sies in Science and Technology, vol 4. Oxford University Press. 153-165.
21. Langston, N. 2013. "Mining the Boreal North," American Scientist March/April 101:2-4.
22. Steen-Adams MM, Mladenoff DJ, Langston NE, Liu F, Zhu J. 2012. “Influence of biophysical fac-
tors and differences in Ojibwe reservation versus Euro-American social histories on forest landscape
change in northern Wisconsin, USA.” Landscape Ecology 26: 1165-1178.
23. Langston, N. 2012. “Global forest change.” Chapter in J.R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin, eds.,
A Companion to Global Environmental History. Wiley-Blackwell. 263-278.
24. Langston, N. 2012. "Rachel Carson’s legacy: gender concerns and endocrine disrupting chemicals."
GAIA 21(3): 225-229.
25. Langston, N. 2012. "Eine Stimme gegen das Schweigen: Rachel Carson und ihr Buch Silent Spring."
Kultur & Technik 2:18-22.
26. Langston, N. 2010. "Toxic Inequities: Chemical Exposures and Indigenous Communities in Canada
and the United States." Natural Resources Journal 50:2.
27. Steen-Adams, M., N. Langston, and D. J. Mladenoff. 2010. “Logging the Great Lakes Indian Reser-
vations: The Case of the Bad River Band of Ojibwe.” American Indian Culture and Research Jour-
nal 34: 41-66.
28. Langston, N. 2010. "Air: Climate Change and Environmental History." Pp 33-50 in A Companion to
Environmental History, ed. Doug Sackman, Blackwell Companions to American History (New
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29. Langston, N. 2009. "Paradise Lost: Climate Change, Boreal Forests, and Environmental History."
Environmental History 14: 641-650.
30. Roberts, Jody A. and N. Langston. 2008. “Toxic Bodies/ Toxic Environments: An Interdisciplinary
Forum.” Environmental History 13: 629-635.
31. Langston, N. 2008. “The Retreat from Precaution: Regulating Diethylstilbestrol (DES), Endocrine
Disruptors, and Environmental Health.” Environmental History 13: 41-65.
32. Hoffman, R., N. Langston, J. McCann, P. Perdue, and L. Sedrez. 2008. “AHR Conversation: Envi-
ronmental Historians and Crisis.” American Historical Review 113: 1431-1465.
33. Steen-Adams, M.M., N.E. Langston, and D.J. Mladenoff. 2007. “White Pine In The Northern For-
ests: An Ecological and Management History of White Pine on the Bad River Reservation of Wis-
consin,” Environmental History 12: 624-648.
34. Langston, N. 2006. “Restoration in the American National Forests: Ecological Processes and Cul-
tural Landscapes.” Chapter in The Conservation of Cultural Landscapes, ed. Mauro Agnoletti. CABI
Press. 173-183.
35. Langston, N. 2005. “Reflections on Teaching World Forest History.” Envtl History 10: 20-29.
36. Langston, N. 2005. "Resource Management as a Democratic Process: Adaptive Management on
Federal Lands." Chapter in Communities and Forests: Where People Meet the Land. ed. Don Field
and Robert Lee, Oregon State University Press. 52-76.
37. Langston, N. 2005. "Floods and Landscapes in the Inland West" Chapter in City, Country, Empire:
Landscapes in Environmental History, ed. Jeffrey Diefendorf and Kurk Dorsey. U. of Pittsburgh
Press. 99-121.
38. Langston, N. 2003. "Gender Transformed: Endocrine Disruptors in the Environment." Chapter in
Seeing Nature through Gender, ed. Virginia Scharff. U. of Kansas Press. 129-166.
39. National Research Council. 2003. Scientific Evaluation of Biological Opinions on Endangered and
Threatened Fishes in the Klamath River Basin: Final Report. 350 pp. National Academy Press,
Washington DC.
40. National Research Council. 2002. Scientific Evaluation of Biological Opinions on Endangered and
Threatened Fishes in the Klamath River Basin: Interim Report. 57 pp. National Academy Press,
Washington DC.
41. Langston, N. 2000. "When Sound Science is Not Enough: Regulating the Blues." Journal of For-
estry 98: 31-35.
42. Langston, N. 1999. "Human and Ecological Change in the Inland Western Forests." Chapter in
Northwest Lands and Peoples, eds. Paul Hirt and Dale Goble. U. of Washington Press. 415-436.
43. Langston, N. 1999. "Environmental and Human Change in Old Growth Forests," Research in Social
Problems and Public Policy 7: 253-271.
44. Langston, N. 1998. Environmental History and Restoration in the Western Forests. Journal of the
West 38: 45-56.
45. S. Dodson, T. Allen, S. Carpenter, A. Ives, R. Jeanne, J. Kitchell, N. Langston, and M. Turner.
1998. Ecology. Oxford University Press.
46. Langston, N. 1997. "Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: An Environmental History of a Forest
Health Crisis." Chapter in American Forests: Nature, Culture, and Politics. Ed. Char Miller. U.
Press of Kansas. 247-271.
47. Langston, N., S. Rohwer, and D. Gori. 1997. Experimental Analysis Of Intra And Intersexual Com-
petition In Red-Winged Blackbirds. Behavioral Ecology 8: 524-533.
48. Langston, N. and S. Rohwer. 1996. Molt-breeding Tradeoffs In Albatrosses: Implications For Un-
derstanding Life History Variables. Oikos 76: 498-510.
49. Rohwer, S., N. Langston, and D. Gori. 1996. Body Size In Male Redwinged Blackbirds: Manipulat-
ing Selection With Sex-Specific Feeders. Evolution 50: 2049-2065.
50. Langston, N. and S. Rohwer. 1995. Unusual Patterns of Incomplete Primary Molt in Laysan and
Black-footed Albatrosses. Condor 97: 1-19.

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 51. Langston, N. and N. Hillgarth. 1995. Moult Varies With Parasites In Laysan Albatrosses. Proceed-
ings of the Royal Society of London (series B) 261: 239-243.
52. Langston, N., S. Freeman, D. Gori, and S. Rohwer. 1990. Evolution of Body Size in Female Red-
winged Blackbirds: Effects of Female Competition and Reproductive Energetics. Evolution 44:
1764-1779.

c. Textbooks & Encyclopedia Entries (4)

1. Langston, N. 2010. “American Forest History," and "Chemicals" Invited essays for Encyclopedia of
American Environmental History, ed. K. Brosnan, Facts on File.
2. Langston, N. 2009. “World forest history.” Invited essay for The Palgrave Dictionary of Transna-
tional History, Ed. Akira Iriye and Pierre Yves Saunier, Palgrave Macmillan, London.
3. Langston, N. 2008. “Significant Women in forestry.” Invited essay for Forestry and Forests in the
Americas: An Encyclopedia Ed. Fred Cubbage. Routledge Press.
4. Dodson, S., T. Allen, S. Carpenter, A. Ives, R. Jeanne, J. Kitchell, N. Langston, and M. Turner.
1999. Readings in Ecology. Oxford University Press.

d. Journalism, Reviews, Proceedings, & White Papers (35)

1. Langston, N. 2021. Woodland caribou and borders. NICHE: Northern Borders and Boundaries Series.
https://niche-canada.org/2021/04/01/woodland-caribou-and-borders/
2. Langston, N. 2020. Looking at Canada as a US Environmental History. NICHE/The Otter
https://niche-canada.org/2020/11/19/looking-at-canada-as-a-us-environmental-historian/
3. Langston, N. and K. Christen. 2019. Conservation policies threaten Indigenous reindeer herders in
Mongolia. The Conversation, Oct. 10, 2019.
4. Langston, N. 2019. Review of Alissa Cordner, Toxic Safety, Social Science Journal.
5. Langston, N. 2019. “Closing nuclear plants will increase climate risks.” NICHE: The Otther, Jan. 30,
2019. http://niche-canada.org/2019/01/30/closing-nuclear-plants-will-increase-climate-risks/ Co-pub-
lished with Activehistory.ca and Historicalclimatology.org
6. Langston, N. 2019. “Will woodland caribou survive in the Lake Superior basin?” Agate Magazine
Jan. 14, 2019. http://www.agatemag.com/2019/01/will-woodland-caribou-survive-in-the-lake-supe-
rior-basin/
7. Langston, N. 2018. “Are woodland caribou doomed by climate change?” Historical Climatology July
26, 2018. https://www.historicalclimatology.com/blog/are-woodland-caribou-doomed-by-climate-
change
8. Langston, N. 2018 “The Syllabus Project: Diversifying the Environmental History Syllabus.”
NICHE: The Otter. July 5, 2018. http://niche-canada.org/2018/07/05/the-syllabus-project/
9. Langston, N. 1/6/2016. “In Oregon, Myth Mixes with Anger” New York Times op-ed on Malheur
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/opinion/in-oregon-myth-mixes-with-anger.html
10. Langston, N. 1/28/16. “Beyond the Oregon Protests: The Search for Common Ground,” Yale Envi-
ronment360 http://e360.yale.edu/feature/beyond_the_oregon_protests_the_search_for_com-
mon_ground/2952/
11. Langston, N. 2/2/16. “The Surprising History of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge” High Country News.
https://www.hcn.org/articles/the-surprising-history-of-the-malheur-wildlife-refuge
12. Interviews for 22 media outlets, January and Feburary, on Malheur Wildlife Refuge.
13. Langston, N. 2015. Review of An Environmental History of Canada by Laurel Sefton MacDowell,
The Otter. http://niche-canada.org/2015/11/02/review-an-environmental-history-of-canada/
14. Langston, N. 2012. “Rachel Carson and An Ecological View of Health." RCC Perspectives.
15. Langston, N. 2011. “Protecting our Bodies from Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals: A Precautionary
Tale.” Solutions 1: Feb. 25 https://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/article/protecting-our-bodies-from-
hormone-disrupting-chemicals-a-precautionary-tale/
16. Langston, N. 2007. Review of Inescapable Ecologies by Linda Nash. Western Historical Quarterly.
17. Langston, N. 2007. Review of E. Moran and E. Ostrom, eds, Seeing the Forest and the Trees:

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 Human Environment Interactions in Forest Ecosystems. Agric. History.
18. Langston, N. 2006. Final Report: Great Lakes Old Growth Workshop. National Council for Science
in Sustainable Forestry, Washington DC.
19. Langston, N. 2005. Review of Shaul Cohen’s Planting Nature: Trees and the Manipulation of Envi-
ronmental Stewardship in America. Pacific Historical Quarterly.
20. Langston, N. 2005. Review of Mark Baker and Jonathan Kusel’s Community Forestry in the United
States. Natural Areas Journal.
21. Steen-Adams, Michelle and Nancy E Langston, 2004. “A Comparative Forest Landscape History of
the Bad River Reservation and Private Land in the Lake Superior Clay Plain, Pre- EuroAmerican Set-
tlement to 1987.” In The Historic Ashland Area: Proceedings of the Twenty- ninth Annual Meeting of
the Forest History Association of Wisconsin, Inc.
22. Langston, N. 2004. “Floods and Landscapes in the Inland West.” Wild Earth 14.
23. Langston, N. 2003. Review of C. Huggard and A. Gomez, Forests Under Fire: A Century of Ecosys-
tem Management in the Southwest, Environmental History 150-151.
24. Langston, N. 2000. Review of Katherine Morrissey's Mental Territories: Mapping the Inland Empire.
Journal of Interdisciplinary History 724-725.
25. Langston, N. 1999. Review of Hugh Prince's Wetlands of the American Midwest. Historical Geogra-
phy 25: 425-6.
26. Langston, N. 1999. “Human and Environmental History of Old-Growth Forests.” Starker Lecture Se-
ries Publications, Eugene Oregon.
27. Langston, Nancy. 1998. "Sustainable Forests and Sustainable Human Communities: Historical Per-
spectives." Proceedings of SAF 1998 Annual Meeting.
28. Langston, Nancy. 1998. "Environmental History of Western Riparian Areas." Proceedings of 1997
Forest Service Watershed Symposium, La Grande, Oregon.
29. Langston, N. 1998. Review of William Robbin's Landscapes of Promise: The Oregon Story, 1800-
1940. Environmental History 3: 393-4.
30. Langston, N. 1998. Review of Frieda Knobloch's The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture as Coloni-
zation in the American West. Pacific Historical Review 66: 375-6.
31. Langston, N. 1997. Review of Donald Meinig's The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective
on 500 Years of History. Vol. 2: Continental America, 1800-1867. William and Mary Quarterly 54:
460-462.
32. Langston, N. 1996. Review of The Last Stand. Washington Post.
33. Langston, N. 1996. Review of Gary Gray's Wildlife and People: The Human Dimensions of Wildlife
Ecology. Eco-Health.
34. Langston, N. 1996. How should we use historical ranges of variability to manage western public
lands? Ecosystem Management Symposium Proceedings (Madison: Society for Ecological Restora-
tion).
35. Langston, N. 1995. A wild, managed forest. The Land Report, Summer.

Selected Keynotes and Talks.

1. Wisconsin Water Week Workshop, invited keynote, “Sustaining Lake Superior: Hope and Res-
lience in the Warming World,” March 2021, via Zoom.
2. Umea University, Sweden, Science Days Celebration, keynote: “Climate Ghosts: Sustaining Migra-
tory Species of the North in a Warming World,” via Zoom, Nov. 2020.
3. ASEH Conference workshop “Retributive Justice and Indigenous Histories,” speaker, March 2020,
(cancelled because of COVID)
4. Northern Michigan University, Water is Life public talk, “Climate Change, Energy Extraction, and
Common Loons,” March 2020 (cancelled because of COVID).
5. Lakehead University, Thunder Bay ON, Canada. Invited Fulbright Keynote Lecture, “Climate
Change, Policy Choices, and the Future of Woodland Caribou,” March 2020.

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6. Lakehead University, Thunder Bay ON, Canada. Invited wildlife Fulbright seminar, “Mongolian
reindeer migrations and management in a changing climate.” Feb. 2020.
7. Pub Science Talk series, Eugene OR. “A Voyage to the Reindeer People,” Nov. 2019.
8. Oregon State University, invited lecture, Nov. 2019. “Environmental justice and Indigenous water
protection,” Corvallis OR.
9. Center for Environmental Futures, University of Oregon keynote: “Loons, migrations, and climate
grief.” Nov. 2019.
10. Center for Environmental Futures, University of Oregon keynote: “The new mobilities of the An-
thropocene: Climate Change and Wildlife Migrations in the North,” Oct. 2019.
11. Cornucopia Climate Lecture Series, invited lecture: “Climate change, mining, and reindeer herding
in Mongolia.” August 2019.
12. Lake Superior Cooperative Science and Monitoring Workshop, July 2019, Duluth. Keynote: “Ob-
servations on Contaminants in Lake Superior.”
13. Renmin University, China, Center for Ecological History Keynote Lecture: “Climate Change, Tox-
ics, and an Ecology of Health,” June 2019, Beijing.
14. KBOCC, April 2019, “Lake Superior Climate Change and Resilience” lecture.
15. ASEH Conference April 2020. “The Syllabus Project: Diversifying Environmental History Syllabi”
16. Rolf Buchdahl Lecture in Science, Technology, and Human Values, March 2019, North Carolina
State.
17. Mandel Lectures in the Humanities, Brandeis University, March 2019
18. State of Lake Superior Conference, Invited Keynote: Sustaining Lake Superior, Oct. 2018.
19. Agrarian Seminar, Yale University, Oct 2018, Sustaining Lake Superior.
20. Forest Stewards Guild keynote speaker, “Malheur and public lands,” July 2016.
21. International Association for Society and Natural Resources keynote speaker, “Sustaining Lake Su-
perior,” June 2016.
22. William O. Douglas Lecture, Whitman College, Washington. Toxics, mining, and indigenous com-
munities. October 2015.
23. Wallace Stegner Lecture, Montana State University April 27, 2015. “Mining Justice and the An-
ishinabeg.”
24. Columbia University Fellows, NY. Hybrid Ecologies keynote. March 2014.
25. Umea University, Sweden. Oct. 18 2014. Invited keynote for the Umea University Celebration;
26. Hall Humanities Lecture. University of Kansas, KS. Sustaining Lake Superior. Nov. 7, 2014.
27. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. March 2013.“Gender and environmental justice in mining,” Keynote lecture.
28. King’s Professorship Lecture, Stockholm, Sweden. 27 May 2013, seminar for the King and the
Royal Academy, Stockholm, “The mystery of toxic fish.”
29. Umeå Universitet, Sweden. 20 March, 2013. “Hybrid ecologies and the environmental humanities,”
keynote for the History of Technology and Science Days.
30. Renmin University, Beijing, China. "Ecological History." Keynote speaker for opening ceremonies
of the Center for Ecological History. May 23, 2012.
31. Frontiers in Historical Ecology, Birmensdorf, Switzerland. Conference organizing committee and
Keynote speaker: “More than Chronology: What Environmental Historians Can Offer on the Fron-
tiers of Historical Ecology.” September 1, 2011.
32. Michigan Technological University, March 22-24, 2011. Invited International Water Day Keynote.
“Sustaining Lake Superior.”
33. Lynn Day Distinguished Lecture at Duke University, Nov. 11, 2010. “Sustaining Lake Superior.”
34. Monona Terrace, April 20, 2010. Earth Day Conference, “Toxaphene, Lake Trout, and Lake Supe-
rior Resiliency.”
35. National Conservation Training Center, Shepherdstown WV. April 7, 2010. Invited talk, Training
Workshop, and Podcast. “Rachel Carson, Hormones, and Wildlife.”
36. Organization of American Historians, April 8, 2010. “Evolution and Environmental History.” In-
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 37. Rotary Club of Madison, April 21, 2010. “Toxic Bodies: Hormones and Precaution.” Invited Earth
Day speaker
38. Saugatauk MI. Great Lakes workshop, April 16, 2010. “The Great Lakes: Environmental Legacies.”
39. Stanford University, March 5, 2010, invited speaker: “Environmental History, Toxics, and Environ-
mental Change.”
40. Strasbourg University CMC (Carcinogens, Mutagens, and Low-dose Chemical Effects) Workshop.
March 29-31, 2010. Invited speaker, “Low-dose endocrine disruptors.”
41. Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Geography and Government. Invited lecture: “Toxic Bod-
ies: Global Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals.” October 22, 2010.
42. University of Kansas, April 22, 2010. “Rachel Carson and the Legacy of Earth Day.” Invited Earth
Day speaker.
43. University of Virginia, April 6, 2010, Invited lecture: “Modern Meat: Hormones and Beef in the
Post-War Era.”
44. Van Evera Lecture, Northland College. 2010. “Sustaining Lake Superior”
45. American Society for Environmental History, April 2009. Presidential lecture: “Paradise Lost.”

Professional Service and Research Collaborations (post-tenure)

Women’s Environmental History Network (WEHN):
• Advisory Committee, 2020-on;
• Chair of Ad-hoc web committee, 2021-on

Coastlines and People Research Coordination Network, Northwestern University, 2020-on

• Collaborator on NSF-sponsored research network proposal, submitted August 2020; PI Prof. Jo-
siah Hester

Coastlines and People Research Coordination Network, UM-Duluth 2019-on

• Member of successful NSF-sponsored research network and collaborative network, PI Ryan
Bergstrom, UM-Duluth, June 2019-on
• Participant in NSF-sponsored workshop on Coastlines and People, UM-Duluth, March 26-27,
2021

NSF Convergence Accelerator—Track D: SI-Driven Innovation in Information Forecasting for Natural

Resource Management and Sustainability of Native Nations, July 2020-on
• Member of planning team and collaborative partners network for the NSF Convergence proposal,
PI: Jennifer Dunn, Northwestern University

American Society for Environmental History:

• Editor, Environmental History, 2010-2013.
• President. 2007-2009.
• Vice President. 2005-7.
• Executive Committee, 2003-2015.
• Editorial board, Environmental History, 2002-2010.
• Committee chair: Search Committee for Executive Director, 2017. Local Arrangements Commit-
tee for Madison Conference 2012. Ad-hoc Journal Committee and Web Committee 2007-on. Out-
reach Committee, 2005-7. Program Committee for Victoria Conference 2004.
American Museum for Forest History, advisory board, 2012-on.

Lake Superior Binational Forum, Binational Program, International Joint Commission. US Representa-
tive. 2010-2016. Extractive Industries Committee member, 2018-on.

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American Council of Learned Societies, Delegate 2007-2008.

National Council for Science and Sustainable Forestry-sponsored workshop on, May 21-24, 2006. PI;
Steering committee: D Mladenoff and Craig Lorimer. “Old Growth and Extended Rotation Forests in the
Lakes States,” 2005-2006. Co-PI: “Old Forests in Changing Landscapes—Creating a National Conserva-
tion Framework.” 2006-2008. Participant: Pacific Northwest Old Growth workshop, 2005.

National Research Council, Committee on Endangered Fishes in the Klamath River Basin. 2001-3.

Forest History Society: Board of Directors, 1998-2003.

Diversity Initiatives and Education

2019-2021
• I serve on the Lake Superior Binational Program Committee on Extractive Industries, coordinated
by Dawn White of Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission. 2019-present.
• The Syllabus Project: Diversifying Environmental History Syllabi. 2019-present.I led the creation
of https://thesyllabusproject.weebly.com/, an effort to diversify environmental history syllabi.
With numerous other concerned scholars, we have built an extensive Zotero library of diverse
sources, written and been interviewed for several articles in professional newsletters to encourage
fellow scholars to diversify their syllabi, and led a roundtable at the 2018 ASEH meeting on di-
versifying syllabi. See http://niche-canada.org/2018/07/05/the-syllabus-project/ and https://en-
vhistnow.com/2019/01/21/nancy-langston-on-diversity-and-inclusivity-in-academic-syllabi/
• Member of steering committee for Ezhi-wiidanokiindiyang omaa akiing ebiitamang group at
Michigan Tech (Environmental Stewardship and Indigeneity Group), Spring 2019.
• Participant, Diverse Dialogues, Michigan Tech, ““Unlearning and Relearning Truths: A Continu-
ing Conversation about Decolonization.” Spring. 2019.
• Guest instructor, “How We Talk about our Earth” course in environmental sustainability,
Keweenaw Bay Ojibwe Community College, Spring 2019.
• Field trip participant, Great Lakes Research Center and Keweenaw Bay Ojibwe Community Col-
lege, Fall 2018.
• Michigan Humanities Council, consultant, Third Coast Conversations program, encouraged out-
reach with Indigenous nations in Michigan. 2018.
• Guest speaker, “Toxics, Fish Consumption, and Environmental Justice,” Keweenaw Bay Indian
Community and Friends of the Lands of the Keweenaw, Oct. 2017.
• Research on historic mining throughout the Lake Superior iron district and its continuing effects
on Indigenous communities; published in https://placesjournal.org/article/the-wisconsin-experi-
ment/ and Sustaining Lake Superior (Yale University Press 2017).
• Lake Superior Binational Forum, International Joint Commission. US Representative. 2010-2016.
We worked closely with Anishinabeg nations around the Lake Superior basin to coordinate sus-
tainability activities. I chaired the Ad-hoc Mining Committee, working with Great Lakes Indian
Fish and Wildlife Commission and tribal nations to create a vision for Responsible Mining in the
Lake Superior Basin.
• Member of panel at Western History Association Conference 2016 “Histories of Mining and
Grassroots Resistance in Native American Communities,” with Tiya Miles, Rosalyn LaPier, Jo-
seph P. Gone, Joseph Azure, and Patty Loew.
• American Society for Environmental History, Editor, Environmental History 2010-2013. Presi-
dent. 2007-9. While I served as President and Editor in Chief, we worked with various Indigenous
communities to build ties, such as the “Dam Removal on the Klamath: Water, Environment, Fish,
Power, and People” plenary at the Portland ASEH Conference, March 2010.

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• University of Wisconsin-Madison CHE (Culture, History, and Environment): Field trip coordina-
tor and participant for field trips with Wisconsin Indigenous Nations, including the Menominee
Nation (1997; 2000; 2010); Bad River Band (2010 and 2013); Mole Lake Sokaogon (2011).
• National Council for Science and Sustainable Forestry committees on old growth, 2006-2012.
Work with Indigenous communities on sustainable forestry in the Upper Midwest; coordinated
with Michael Dockry, Forest Service Liaison to the Menominee Nation.
• UW-Madison, research with the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa on forest history on
the reservation; funded by an USDA Hatch Grant, with Michelle Steen-Adams and David
Mladenoff. 2004-2012.
• National Research Council, Committee on Endangered Fishes in the Klamath River Basin. 2001-
3. Outreach and engagement work with Yurok and Paiute communities.

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