FACULTY - Michael J. Lansing
Associate Professor
Michael J. Lansing received the A.B. in history and in religious studies from the College of William & Mary, the M.A. in history from Utah State University, and the Ph.D. in history from the University of Minnesota (2003). He previously taught at Utah State University and the State University of New York at Buffalo and served as visiting assistant editor at the Western Historical Quarterly.
Besides teaching introductory courses in U.S. and Latin American history, Michael offers upper-level courses in western history, environmental history, and public history and is a participating faculty member in Augsburg's Environmental Studies and Women's Studies programs. He also served as the adviser to Augsburg's chapter of Phi Alpha Theta (2006-2011), the adviser to the Augsburg History Club (2005-2011), and a co-advisor to the Coalition for Student Activism (2006-2011).
Michael is a co-author of The American West: A Concise History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008) and his essays have appeared in the Western Historical Quarterly, Environmental History, the Journal of Historical Geography, the Utah Historical Quarterly, and Ethics, Place, and Environment.
His public history experiences include two years on the staff of the National History Day in Minnesota program (1999-2001), conducting an oral history project with the Minnesota chapter of the Sierra Club (2001-2003), writing a congregational history (2009), serving as an organizer and presenter on a Teaching American History grant in northern Minnesota (2008-2011), contributing an essay to the online MNopedia (2011), and working with teachers and curriculum specialists in the Anoka-Hennepin (MN) School District to revise their fifth-grade U.S. history curriculum and pedagogies (2010-).
Michael is spending the 2011-2012 academic year in residence at the Newberry Library as the Lloyd Lewis Fellow in American History, where he is working on a book-length examination of the Nonpartisan League in the North American West.
