大卫·韦尔博士
专业领域
- 美国历史上
- 历史
- 科学、技术和医学史
- 人文学科
- 公共历史
教育
- Ph.D. Kansas State University, 2012
- M.A. Utah State University, 2006
- B.A. Southern Oregon University, 2004
的专业领域
- 环境与农业历史
- 科学、技术和医学史
- 公共卫生史
- 公共历史
背景
大卫·韦尔是太阳城娱乐官网大学的历史学教授。 他在俄勒冈州南部的Rogue Valley长大,年轻时的大部分时间都在探索该州的山区和荒野地区。 He is a first-generation student that holds a BA from Southern Oregon University, an MA from Utah State University, and a PhD from Kansas State University. Dr. Vail’s specializations include 环境与农业历史, 科学、技术和医学史, and 公共历史. He has published articles in academic journals such as 农业历史, Endeavour (历史 of Science), Great Plains Quarterly, Great Plains Research, Middle West Review, and 堪萨斯州的历史。
Dr. Vail’s book, 《化学土地:1945年以来北美草原的农药、空中喷洒和健康》 (阿拉巴马大学出版社,2018) is an environmental-agricultural-technological history of aerial pesticide application, agricultural science and food production in North America’s grasslands.
His second book (co-authored with Debra A. Reid of the Henry Ford Museum), 解读博物馆和历史遗址的环境 (罗曼和利特菲尔德,2019), offers a multi-disciplinary approach to research environmental history, document evidence of human influence on land and the environment over time, and tailor that knowledge to new public engagement.
Dr. Vail's third co-edited book with Debra A. Reid and Karen-Beth Scholthof is Interpreting Science at Museums and Historic Sites (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023). 这本书提供了一个多学科的方法来研究科学史,科学物质文化的作用,其各种好奇的文物,以促进公众参与博物馆和历史遗址。
Dr. Vail's next book project, 脆弱的收成:冷战时期大平原的紧急保护 (under advance contract with University of Nebraska Press), considers the region’s agricultural-environmental relationships in the Cold War era. “Vulnerable Harvests” looks at the concepts of ‘risk perception’ and ‘rescue science’ in what he characterizes as agricultural vulnerability environments. The principal goal of the book is to demonstrate how regional actors (human and nonhuman) shaped the land—the farmers who used it, the scientists who studied it, and the ecological relationships that remade it. 该项目通过考察冷战期间区域农业科学家、政府决策者和土地所有者在应对大平原地区日益增加的生态风险方面角色的转变,加深了我们对环境风险和粮食安全的理解。
常用课程
常用课程
本科:
- 科学与医学史
- 全球公共卫生史
- 健康和医疗法的历史
- 美国历史上 (since 1865)
- 美国历史(1865年以前)
研究生:
- 全球流行病的历史
- 国家公园的历史
- 艾森豪威尔时代
- 20世纪的战争与环境
- 美国环境史
- 农业历史
- “科学技术史”
- 大萧条的历史
- 美国解释
最近的一些论文项目
- Megan Launchbaugh,“这片土地是我们的土地:太阳城娱乐官网草原上的植树和环境建设”,于2023年秋季完成
- David Blakely, “Toward an Environmental 历史 of the First Great Awakening,” Completed Spring 2022
- Leah Stagg, “‘This is Now Our War!:’ Beaver County, Utah and World War I,” 2021年夏季竣工
- Will Connelly, “Buried in Our Backyard: The Environmental Legacy of American Chemical Weapons Production and Disposal,” 2021年夏季竣工
- Justin Horn, “Where Meteorologists Fear to Tread:” Weather Modification on the Great Plains and the Rainmakers of the 1890s,” Completed Spring 2020.
- Hannah Freeman, Coveralls or Coverless: Rosie the Riveters and Pin-Up Girls on the World War II 回家 Front,” Completed Fall 2019.
第一代工作
Vail博士也是太阳城娱乐官网的第一代教师(他是家里第一个完成本科和研究生学位的人)。 他是太阳城娱乐官网第一代领导团队的成员,并欢迎有机会帮助来自第一代社区的学生。 For more information, visit 太阳城娱乐官网's 第一代页面.
人文的冒险
Vail博士喜欢将他对历史和人文的热爱与他对山地自行车和大平原环境的热情联系起来。 If you don't see him riding the trails at Kearney's Cottonmill Park, you'll find him working with 人文学科太阳城娱乐官网 as a member of the Board of Directors or helping with UNL's 大平原研究中心 programming.
联系
联系 Dr. Vail by sending him an e-mail (vaildd@unk.edu) or check out his professional site at davidvail.net.



