![]() ![]() This year, Curtis published his third mining essay, “’Tanks are Born Underground’: Mining and World War II,” in Robertson, et al, The Nature of War: American Environments and World War II (Cambridge University Press, 2020), in which he links mineral scarcity to the main patterns of 20 th century globalization. Two other essays “Greening Anaconda,” a study of a former smelter city in western Montana, and the award winning “Producing a Gold Rush,” a look at the role of the nation-state in setting the spatial stage for western gold rushes, extend Curtis’s environmental analysis of American mining into the later twentieth and earlier nineteenth centuries respectively. His well-reviewed first book, Gambling on Ore: The Nature of Metal Mining in the United States, (University Press of Colorado, 2013), is an environmental history of nineteenth-century non-ferrous metal mining. In it, Curtis argues that persistent and recurring uncertainties about the character and extent of ore deposits shaped metal mining development in the United States. He is currently Principal Investigator on a $2 million Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research “Seeding Solutions” grant, which began implementation in 2019. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in modern United States history and environmental history and offers independent studies in environmental history and the environmental studies and sciences. Professor Curtis specializes in Environmental History and Studies with research and teaching foci on mining, environmental ideas, and food systems. ![]()
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