Rate Professor Jared Farmer

Academic Background

Ph.D., Columbia University.

Research Interests

Environmental history; history of technology; American West; water history.

Appointments

Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania; Chair, Department of History.

Awards

Pulitzer Prize finalist; Bancroft Prize.

Publications

• Trees in Paradise: A California History, W.W. Norton, 2013.
• On the Horizon: An American Journey, Little, Brown, 2022.

Additional Contributions

Public historian; contributor to New York Times, Washington Post.