Peter Alagona

Asst. Professor of Environmental Studies & History	Office:	HSSB 4231
	Phone:
	Fax:	(805) 893-8686
	E-mail:	alagona@history.ucsb.edu
	Website:	http://www.history.ucsb.edu/people/person.php?account_id=284&first_name=Peter%20S.&last_name=Alagona
	Mailing Address:	Environmental Studies Program University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4160
	Courses:	ES 193WA Wildlife in America TBA

Hello and welcome! You have reached the Web page for Peter Alagona, Assistant Professor of history and environmental studies at the the University of California, Santa Barbara. I am an environmental historian and historian of science with additional interests and training in ecology, geography, and science and technology studies.

My research focuses on the histories of land use, natural resource management, environmental politics, and ecological science in the North American West and beyond. I have a particular interest in endangered species and biological diversity. My current major project is a book manuscript--under advance contract with the University of California Press--entitled After the Grizzly: A Century of Endangered Species in California and Beyond. I am also developing a collaborative, interdisciplinary, intercampus project that will use the UC Natural Reserve System as a site for research and teaching in environmental history and the history of science.

Beginning in the winter of 2010, I will be teaching undergraduate courses cross-listed in history and environmental studies, as well as graduate seminars in history.

Courses:
ES 193WA, Wildlife in America
Other courses TBA

Education:
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

Selected Publications:
Alagona, Peter S. and Gregory L. Simon. "The Role of Field Study in Humanistic and Interdisciplinary Environmental Education." Journal of Experiential Education" (in press).

Simon, Gregory L. and Peter S. Alagona. "Beyond Leave No Trace. "Ethics, Place & Environment" 12:1 (March 2009): 17-34.

Alagona, Peter S. "Credibility." Conservation Biology 22:6 (December 2008): 1365-1367.

Alagona, Peter S. "Homes on the Range: Cooperative Conservation and Environmental Change on California's Privately Owned Hardwood Rangelands." Environmental History 13 (April 2008): 287-311.

Alagona, Peter S. and Stephanie Pincetl. "The Coachella Valley Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan: A Decade of Delays."
Environmental Management 41:1 (January 2008): 1-11.

Alagona, Peter S. "What Makes a Disaster Natural?" Space and
Culture 9:1 (February 2006): 77-79.

Alagona, Peter S. "The Ghosts of Endangered Species Past: Recent Lessons from the Intersection of History and Biology." BioScience
54:11 (November 2004): 984-985.

Alagona, Peter S. "Biography of a Feathered Pig: The California Condor Conservation Controversy." Journal of the History of Biology
37:3 (October 2004): 557-583.