Graduate Student, History
Bethany College, History & Political Science
University of Rochester, History
Ph.D. Candidate
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Geoff Cunfer
Bill Waiser |
About
I graduated from the University of Rochester with my M.A. in History in May 2011. My Masters Thesis is entitled "A Convergence of Recreational and Conservation Ideals: The Cook Forest State Park Campaign, 1910-1928," and discusses the connection of the Cook Forest campaign to national conservation and state park trends. I am currently in my first year of my the Ph.D. program at the University of Saskatchewan where I am studying Comparative Canadian and American environmental history with an emphasis on the conservation movement. I plan for my dissertation to be a comparative study of provincial and state parks. I am particularly interested in the way in which nature, at times, benefits from mankind's self-serving interests.
