Philip Terrie Professor Emeritus, American Culture Studies & English Ph.D., American Studies, George Washington University A.B., English, Princeton University Office: 245 Shatzell Hall Phone: 419-372-6886 E-mail: pterrie Center for Environmental Programs

Research Interests: American environmental and cultural history Selection of Recent & Reoccurring Courses: American Culture Studies, Methods and Theories; Genealogies of American Culture; American Environmental History; Research and Publication Selected Publications: "The Necessities of the Case': The Response to the Great Thumb Fire of 1881," Michigan Historical Review (2005). "George Perkins Marsh," Encyclopedia of New England Culture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005). "Adirondack Park," The Encyclopedia of New York State (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005). "Adirondack Park Agency," The Encyclopedia of New York State (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005). "Adirondacks," The Encyclopedia of New York State (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005). "Louis Marshall," The Encyclopedia of New York State (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005). "Emerson in the Wilderness," Emerson at 200, Giorgio Mariani, et al., eds. (Rome: Aracne Editrice, 2004). "The Private Land Plan: Contexts and Challenges," AJES: Adirondack Journal of Environmental Studies 11 (Spring/Summer 2004). "Hope or Despair: How Can an Environmentalist Keep up the Struggle?", AJES: Adirondack Journal of Environmental Studies 10 (Fall/Winter 2003). Contested Terrain: A New History of Nature and People in the Adirondacks (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997). Forever Wild: A Cultural History of Wilderness in the Adirondacks (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1994; originally published as Forever Wild: Environmental Aesthetics and the Adirondack Forest Preserve, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1985). "'Imperishable Freshness': Culture, Conservation, and the Adirondack Park," Journal of Forest and Conservation History 37 (July 1993). "Last of the Breed: Louis L'Amour's Survivalist Fantasy," Journal of Popular Culture 25 (Spring 1992). "The Other Within: Indianization on The Oregon Trail," New England Quarterly 64 (September 1991).