Victims of the Dust
creator: Herschel C. Logan
source: Kansas Collection, University of Kansas Libraries

Dust Storm at Dodge City, Kansas 10 a.m. March 30 '35 Stovall Studio, Dodge City, Kansas #2
source: Kansas Collection, University of Kansas Libraries

Dust Storm, 12 o'clock noon, April 10, 1935 Dodge City, Kansas
source: Kansas Collection, University of KS Libraries

Photo of dust closing in on Strong Hall in 1935.
source: [University Archives, Strong Hall photos, 0/22/87, 1935]

Paul Hotvedt
description: Paul Hotvedt Landscape Painter http://www.groundsite.org/PaulHotvedt.shtml Over the course of 15 years Paul Hotvedt recorded the landscapes of northeastern Kansas in a series of oil paintings. Several hundred of his works are included in KUs Spencer Library Collection as part of the From the Ground Up project which has cataloged site-specific visual art in Kansas from a number of artists. From the Ground Up and it's founding group, the Kansas Conference on Imagination and Place, were co-founded by Hotvedt in 2001. A typical Hotvedt painting celebrates the beauty of the commonplace. The paintings might contain nothing more than a flat horizon and a nondescript clump of scrubby brush yet they may become meditations on the everyday. Hotvedt takes notice of the landscapes that most of us drive by without taking a second glance. With seasoned confidence, he recreates these rather ordinary scenes into paintings that are imminently interesting.

Terry Evans
description: Terry Evans, Chicago photographer, has photographed the prairies and plains of North America and the urban prairie of Chicago, combining both aerial and ground photography. Recent work explores working steel mills and Greenland’s Jakobshavn Glacier. She has just completed a long term project about the town of Matfield Green, Kansas and the surrounding Flint Hills. She is currently photographing the North Dakota oil boom in collaboration with writer and producer Elizabeth Farnsworth. She has exhibited widely including one-person shows at the Chicago Art Institute, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, and The Field Museum of Natural History. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of an Anonymous Was a Woman award. Her work is in major museum collections including the Chicago Art Institute, Museum of Modern Art, N.Y., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Museum of Contemporary Photography, and many other collections. http://www.terryevansphotography.com/ Terry Evans June 2011

Edmund Russell
description: Edmund Russell Phone: 785-864-9474 Email: eprussell@ku.edu Curriculum Vita Edmund Russell is the Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Distinguished Professor of United States History (B.A. Stanford 1980; Ph.D. Michigan 1993). Russell's research synthesizes environmental history, American history, global history, history of technology, and science. His first major project focused on the environmental history of warfare. It culminated in a pair of books (War and Nature, Cambridge University Press, and Natural Enemy, Natural Ally, co-edited with Richard Tucker, Oregon State University Press). His second major project focused on evolutionary history, or the study of ways in which people have altered the traits of populations of non-human species and how these alterations have circled back to change human experience. He has published one book on this topic (Evolutionary History, Cambridge University Press) and has another under contract. A third area of interest is neurohistory, which draws on ideas from neuroscience to help us understand the past. He co-organized the first conference on neurohistory, edited proceedings of the conference, and collaborated on experiments with neuroscientists. Russell's research has received prizes in environmental history, history of technology, and history of science. He has received three teaching awards. Russell is co-editor of the Studies in Environment and History series for Cambridge University Press, distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians, life member of Clare Hall at Cambridge University, and extraordinary member of the Human Sciences Center of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. He has been a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich and a visiting scholar at Cambridge University. He has served as conference program chair for the American Society for Environmental History, book review editor for Environmental History, executive council member for the Society for the History of Technology, and me…

Uma Outka
description: Uma Outka Associate Professor of Law uoutka@ku.edu 785-864-9241 402 Green Hall Professor Outka joined the KU Law faculty as an associate professor in 2011 and is an affiliate faculty member in the KU Environmental Studies Program and Center for Environmental Policy. She teaches environmental law, energy law and related courses, and property. Professor Outka is also a Member Scholar with the Center for Progressive Reform. Before coming to KU Law, Outka spent two years as a Visiting Scholar in Energy and Land Use Law at the Florida State University College of Law. As a faculty research partner with FSU's Institute for Energy Systems, Economics and Sustainability (IESES), Outka directed a Sustainable Energy Research Project aimed at understanding and advancing legal frameworks to support sustainable energy development. Before entering academia, Outka served as general counsel for 1000 Friends of Florida, a non-profit advocacy organization focused on growth management, environmental conservation and affordable housing, and worked as an attorney in general litigation with the Northeast law firm, Verrill Dana LLP in Portland, Maine. She is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Maine School of Law and holds a master's in public policy and management from the Muskie School of Public Service.

Paul Outka
description: Paul Outka Associate Professor 3022 Wescoe Hall 785-864-2548 paul.outka@ku.edu Areas of Research 19thC U.S. literature and culture, literature and science, American poetry, African American literature.Theoretical foci include ecocriticism, critical race theory, trauma studies, aesthetic theory, and the posthuman. Selected Publications BOOK Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance.New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES and BOOK CHAPTERS: “Posthuman/Postnatural: Ecocriticism and the Sublime in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century: Science, History, Scale. Stephanie Lemenager, Ken Hiltner, and Teresa Shewry, eds. New York: Routledge. Forthcoming. “History, the Posthuman, and the End of Trauma: Propranolol and Beyond.”Traumatology. 15.4 (2009) 76–81. “(De)composing Whitman.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, 12.1 (2005) 41-60. “Whitman and Race (‘he’s queer, he’s unclear, get used to it…’).” Journal of American Studies, 36 (2002) 293-318. “Publish or Perish: Food, Hunger, and Self-Construction in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior.”Contemporary Literature, 38 (1997) 447-82.Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 114, Gale-Centage, 2002.Rpt. in Short Story Criticism, Vol. 136, Gale-Cengage, Forthcoming, 2010. Awards Winner of the 2009 Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) Biennial Prize for “Best Book of Ecocriticism” published in 2007-08. University of Maine Trustee Professorship, 2007-08. American Council of Learned Societies/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship for Junior Faculty, 2004-05. University Honors Faculty. University of Maine at Farmington, 2003-07. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship. University of Virginia, 1999-2000. Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award.Department of English, University of Virginia, 1994-95. Faculty Profile I started my scholarly career…

Joane Nagel
description: Joane Nagel University Distinguished Professor On Sabbatical Fall 2013 Email: nagel@ku.edu Personal Web Site Joane Nagel (PhD Stanford) is a political and cultural sociologist; her work focuses on ethnicities, genders, and sexualities in the US and in the global system, cultural production and construction, social and nationalist movements, American Indian activism, and global climate change. Her recent research includes “Climate Change, Public Opinion, and the Military-Security Complex,” The Sociological Quarterly (2011), “Deploying Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality in the Iraq War” (with Lindsey Feitz), Race, Gender & Class (2007), “Ethnicity, Sexuality, and Globalization,” Theory, Culture & Society (2006), “Men and Nations” in Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinity (ed. M. Kimmel, J. Hearn, R.W. Connell, Sage, 2005), Race, Ethnicity, & Sexuality: Intimate Intersections and Forbidden Frontiers (Oxford, 2003), and American Indian Ethnic Renewal (Oxford, 1996). Her current research examines the sociological dimensions of global environmental change, specifically the race, class, gender, and sexual dimensions of climate change.