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Michael
J. Lansing
Assistant Professor
lansing@augsburg.edu
 Michael J. Lansing received the A.B. in History and in Religion 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 has 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, U.S. environmental history, and U.S. gender history at Augsburg. His research focuses on gender, nature, space, and place in the North American West. He is a co–author of The American West: A Concise History (Blackwell, 2008) and his essays have appeared in the Western Historical Quarterly, the Utah Historical Quarterly, the Journal of Historical Geography, and Ethics, Place, and Environment. Winner of the Montana Historical Society’s Burlingame–Toole Award (1997), the Oscar O. Winther Award for the best article published in the Western Historical Quarterly (2001), and the Dale L. Morgan Award for the best scholarly article published in the Utah Historical Quarterly (2005), he also sits on the editorial board of the University of Arizona Press’s monograph series "Women’s Western Voices."
Michael currently serves as the director of the Environmental
Studies program and is a participating faculty member in Augsburg’s
Women’s Studies and Metro–Urban Studies programs. He
is also the faculty adviser for the Augsburg History Society, the
Alpha Mu Lambda chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, and the Coalition for
Student Activism.
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