Changing Landscapes of American West to be Explored at OSU Geography Colloquium

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Cultural historical geographer William Wyckoff will deliver a lecture titled “On the Road Again: Montana’s Changing Landscape, 1920-2005” at 3:30 p.m. on Feb. 8 in Murray Hall Room 035 at Oklahoma State University.

“Dr. Wyckoff is a renowned cultural historical geographer whose research projects provide insight into the cultural, economic, political and social transformations in the United States through the cultural landscape,” said Rebecca Sheehan, an assistant geography professor at OSU. “His meticulous and varied methods draw attention to processes at work in the human landscape of the American West imaginary, the development of frontiers, rural gentrification and National Parks.”

Much of Wyckoff’s research is about the cultural and historical geography of the Rocky Mountain West. In his most recent project, On the Road Again: Montana’s Changing Landscape, he presents a “then and now” look at Montana’s cultural landscape. Other books include Creating Colorado: The Making of a Western American Landscape: 1860-1940.

He is a geography professor at Montana State University.

The lecture is free and open to the public and is funded by the Social Science Seminar Series in the College of Arts & Sciences. To learn more, phone (405) 744-9178 or e-mail rebecca.sheehan@okstate.edu. The geography department is one of 24 departments in the College of Arts & Sciences at OSU.