 Scott Casper,
who teaches Western Traditions 203, is an Associate Professor of History
and a former chair of the history department. He's been at UNR since 1992 and
teaches a variety of courses in U.S. cultural history and 19th-century U.S.
history. He's currently doing research on how nineteenth-century Americans
imagined their presidents' families and on how George Washington's domestic
life has appeared in American culture since the late 1700s. His earlier
book, Constructing American Lives: Biography and Culture in Nineteenth-Century
America (University of North Carolina Press, 1999), won the Society
for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing Book Prize.
More familiar to Core Humanities students will be two of his other books,
co-edited with history professor Richard O. Davies: Five Hundred
Years and Of Sagebrush and Slot Machines, both designed for CH
203. His lecture, "The Harlem Renaissance: African-American Cultural
Politics in the 1920s," was broadcast in the KNPB series, The Western
Traditions Lectures. |
