215 Social Sciences Bldg.
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
(520) 626-8429
You can send email to me at kmorriss@u.arizona.edu.
My research on the North American West focuses on the region's environmental, social, cultural, and intellectual history. Trained as an interdisciplinary scholar, I received my Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1990.
Recent
Fellowships
Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Huntington
Library, 2006
John Topham and Susan Butler Faculty Research Award, Charles Redd Center for Western
Studies, Brigham Young University, 2002-03
Bernard L. Majewski Fellowship, American
Heritage Center, University of Wyoming, 2000
Udall Center for Studies in
Public Policy Fellowship, Spring 2000
Visiting Fellow, Center of the
American West, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1998-99
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship/Lloyd Lewis Fellowship
in American History, Newberry Library,
1997
Archibald Hanna, Jr., Fellowship in American History, Beinecke Rare
Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, 1997
Selected
Publications
Picturing Arizona: The Photographic Record of the 1930s, with
Kirsten Jensen (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005).
Mental Territories: Mapping the Inland Empire (Ithaca, NY:
Cornell University Press, 1997).
Women in the West: A Guide to Manuscript Sources, with Susan
Armitage, Helen Bannan, and Vicki Ruiz (New York: Garland, 1991).
Washington: Images of a State's Heritage, with Carlos Schwantes,
David Nicandri and Susan Strasser (Spokane: Melior Publications, 1989).
"Miss Spokane and the Inland Northwest: Representations of Regions and
Gender," Frontiers XXII (no. 3, 2001).
"Mining, Environment and Historical Change in the Inland Northwest," in
Northwest Lands and Peoples, ed. Paul Hirt and Dale Goble
(Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999).
"The Realization of the American West: A Response to Patricia Nelson
Limerick," The New Regionalism, ed. Charles Wilson Reagan
(Oxford: University of Mississippi Press, 1998).
"Engendering the West," in Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's
Western Past, ed. William Cronon, George Miles and Jay Gitlin (New
York:
W.W. Norton, 1992).
My research perspectives influence my undergraduate teaching in courses on Arizona and the Southwest, U.S. Environmental History, 20th-century U.S. Western History, and early 20th-century U.S. History.
Undergraduates enrolled in my lecture/discussion courses and in my section of 396a will read a wide variety of primary documents along with interpretive texts by historians. Graduate students may enroll in 500-level courses; in addition to participating in the undergraduate class lectures and assignments, they will read additional monographs and join together in a separate discussion section.
History 355--U.S. Environmental History
Spring 2004: Main Course
Home Page, with course syllabus and related links
History 345--New American West: 20th-century U.S. Western History
Fall 2006: Main Course
Home Page, with course syllabus and related links
History 396a--Nature and Practice of History
Spring 2006: Main Course
Home Page,
with course syllabus and related links
History 446/546--History of Arizona and the Southwest
Fall 2002: Main Course
Home Page, with course syllabus and related links
History 495f--Topics in U.S. History: Western U.S. Women's History
Spring 2005: Main Course Home
Page, with course syllabus and related links
History 438/538--U.S. Cultural History, 1917-1945
Fall 1999: Main Course
Home Page,
with course syllabus and related links
POLIS
Course Homesite for Electronic Reserve
Selected
List of Relevant Websites
History 695a--Advanced Topics in American History
Fall 2006: Intersecting
Fields: Readings in 19th and early 20th-century U.S. History
Earlier courses:
Narratives of
Difference: 19th- and 20th-century U.S. History
Race, Ethnicity and Labor in the American West and South
Recent Scholarship in Western U.S. History
U.S.
Environmental History
History 696b- Nineteenth-Century
American History
Spring 2007: Research Seminar in
American History
History 696c--Twentieth-Century American History
History 696n--Comparative Women's History
Spring 2002: Main Course Home
Page, with course syllabus and related links
Purdue
University's
OWL web site on writing
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
University of Arizona Writing
Center
Gary Shimek and David Tietyen, Documentation and Style Guide
University
of Arizona Student Code of Conduct and Code of Academic Integrity
AHA
Statement on Plagiarism
University of Indiana, "Understanding
Plagiarism"
American Library Association,"Using
Primary
Sources on the Web"