Ryan J. Carey

History

A.B., Dartmouth College; M.A., Ph.D., the University of Texas.

Dr. Carey's work examines the role of place in history, and in pursuit of that interest he did significant graduate work in geography and environmental studies while completing his degree in American History. His dissertation brings a new critical lens, landscape perception, to bear on the growth and local criticism of transportation monopolies in the Pacific Northwest in the second half of the 19th century. In addition to survey courses on American History, he has taught Environmental History and the History of the American West at the University of Texas. He has received research fellowships from the Huntington Library, Harvard University, and the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming.

As a research assistant at the University of Texas Population Research Center, he developed skills with GiS mapping software. He has also worked in public history as researcher for a historic preservation firm in Texas and for the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. He has been a participant in a Mellon Seminar in the Humanities at the Huntington Library in 2000, and the Larom Institute for Western American Studies at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in 1998. (2004–)