Andrew Isenberg
- Hall Distinguished Professor of American History
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Dr. Isenberg's academic and research specialties are environmental history, the history of the North American West and history of Indigenous people in America.
His books include "The US Military and the Pacific Environment: The Making of an American Lake, co-authored with Beth Bailey and Paul Landsberg; "The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920;" and "Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life." Dr. Isenberg has appeared in a number of documentaries, including "National Geographic's America Before Columbus" in 2009, "American Experience" in 2010, "The American West" in 2016, and Ken Burns' "The American Buffalo" in 2023.
Dr. Isenberg was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Erfurt in Germany and at the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. He has served as Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, and a Senior Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany.
Learn more about Andrew Isenberg on the Department of History website.