Professor Emeritus

Michael F. Logan

Vita

• Education

  • B.A. History/Journalism, University of Arizona, 1981.

  • M.A., U.S. History, University of Arizona, 1990

  • Ph.D., U.S. History, University of Arizona, 1994

  • Dissertation: “Fighting Sprawl and City Hall: Resistance to Urban Growth in the Southwest, 1945-1965.”—Director: Dr. Juan R. Garcia

• Publications

  • The Lessening Stream: The Environmental History of the Santa Cruz River (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002)

  • “Head-Cuts and Check-Dams: Changing Patterns of Environmental Manipulation by the Hohokam and Spanish in the Santa Cruz River Valley, 200-1820,” Environmental History 4:3 (July 1999): 403-430.

  • Fighting Sprawl and City Hall: Resistance to Urban Growth in the Southwest (Tucsan: University of Arizona Press, 1995)

  • “Detective Fiction as Urban Critique: Changing Perceptions of a Genre,” Journal of American Culture 15:3 (Fall 1992) 89-94.

  • “Fighting City Hall: Contested Growth in Tucson, 1950-1960,” Locus 3 (Fall 1990): 65-80.

• Committee Service and Graduate Mentor (Oklahoma State University)

  • Director of Graduate Studies

  • Environmental Sciences Steering Council

  • Regents Committee on Articulation, 1996-2000.

  • Arts and Sciences Honors Committee.

  • Arts and Sciences Curriculum and Extension Committee, 1999-2000.

  • History Department Personnel Committee (thrice elected position)

  • History Department Graduate Committee

  • History Department Curriculum Committee

  • History Department Library Committee

  • Chair, History Department Scholarship Committee

  • History Department, U.S. Survey Coordinator, 1997-2000

  • History Department Secretary, 1995-2000.

  • Phi Alpha Theta Advisor

  • One Ph.D. and five M.A. degrees directed to completion

  • Chair of two Ph.D. and two M.A. students currently enrolled.

• Other Professional Service

  • Contact person and lead faculty member in the group that established the certificate in environmental Studies.

  • Committee member 2003-2004: George Perkins Marsh Prize for the best book in environmental history.
  • Book manuscript Referee for University of Arizona Press, University of New Mexico Press, University of Pittsburgh Press.
  • Article Manuscript Referee for The Journal of Environmental History, Western Historical Quarterly, Pacific Historical Review. Journal of Arizona History.
  • One of four editors of the HIST 1103 collateral reader American Passages and Visions of American Heritage.
  • Elder hostel instructor, Oklahoma State University.
  • Commendation from OSU President James E. Halligan for being named “best teacher” by anonymous student, twice in 2001.
  • OSU History Department, “Professor of the Year,” 2000 (named by the undergraduate History Club).
  • Member of the Environmental Sciences Graduate Program Steering Council.
  • Guest Lecturer on Environmental History in Environmental Sciences 5300, the introductory graduate seminar in the Environmental Sciences Program, Oklahoma State University, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002.
  • Visiting Scholar, University of Arizona, 2000-2001.
  • Guest Lecturer, “Getting a Job and the Run to Tenure: Prospects in the Profession,” University of Arizona, History Department, March 2, 2001.
  • Addressed a group of high school teachers in the Marana School District, Marana, Arizona, on water and environmental issues, January, 2001.
  • Addressed dorm residents on the populist origins of “The Wizard of Oz,” Fall Semester, 1999.
• Awards, Scholarships and Grants

  • Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Research Grant ($2000), 2004.

  • Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Research Grant ($2000), 2003.

  • Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University, Publication Grant, ($2,800), 2001.

  • Water Resources Research Center, Oklahoma State University, Research Grant ($25,000), 1999.

  • Oklahoma Humanities Council, Research Grant ($3000), 1999.

  • Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities, Research Grant ($3000), 1997.

  • Arts and Sciences Research Grant, Oklahoma State University (one month summer salary), 1995, 1996, 2002.

  • Dean’s Incentive Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Oklahoma State University ($3000), 1995, 1996.

  • John P. Rockfellow Scholarship, University of Arizona, (graduate student award), 1992-1994.