grave

Recall Continuing Lecturer in Environmental Studies Program

graves@history.ucsb.edu

Bren Hall 4007

HSSB 4240

History Department Profile

Specialization

Retired in Fall 2018

Recalled to teach his most popular courses for Summer Sessions and Fall 2019

Environmental History, California History 

Lecturer in Environmental Studies and History Departments

Education

  • Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Bio

Dr. Graves specializes in federal water resources development and resource allocation. He also conducts environmental and historical investigations of industrial sites in the partnership Graves & Neushul Historical Consultants. His publications include Pursuing Excellence in Water Planning and Policy Analysis: A History of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water ResourcesFrom These Beginnings: A Biographical Approach to American History; and "The Rhetoric of Opposition: Anti-conservation and the Early Forest Reserves," in Journal of the West.

Research

Greg Graves's research interests include: public history, environmental history, California history, and U.S. history

Publications

In an Era of Change: A History of the Tulsa District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1975-1997 (2009)

Courses

ES 3: Introduction to Social and Cultural Environments 
ES/Hist: 173: American Environmental History
ES 188: The Ethics of Human-Environmental Relations
ES 197: Senior Thesis in ES