Marguerite S. Shaffer specializes in U.S. cultural history with an emphasis on conceptions of nature and the construction of public culture. She is the author of See America First: Tourism and National Identity, 1880-1940 (2001) and the editor of Public Culture: Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the United States (2008). She has published a a number of articles on tourism, national parks, scenery, and regional identity of the American West. She also has worked as a research associate for the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History and served as a consultant for the Autry Museum of Western History. Her current research focuses on the expressions and activities of popular environmentalism. Click on the following link for Curriculum Vitae. |
