Faculty
Sara Gregg
Assistant Professor
Postdoctoral fellow at Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
On leave 2007-08
643 Ross Hall
Dept. of History
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
Phone: (515) 294-6646
Email: greggs@iastate.edu
Education
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Columbia University
B.A., Middleburry College, magna cum laude
Research and Teaching Interests
Environmental History
Agricultural History
20th Century U.S. History
Political History
Selected Publications
Contested Commons: Subsistence Farms, the New Deal, and the Creation
of a Federal Landscape in Appalachia (manuscript in progress)
American Georgics, co-edited with Ed Hagenstein and Brian
Donahue (Yale University Press, forthcoming in 2009).
"Limited Access: Federal Infrastructure and Rural Culture in
Early Twentieth-Century Appalachia," article under review by
The Journal of American History.
"Federal Law: Land Policy" and "Green Mountains."
Essays in Encyclopedia of American Environmental History,
ed. Kathleen Brosnan (Facts on File, forthcoming in 2007).
"Uncovering the Subsistence Economy in the Twentieth-Century
South: Blue Ridge Mountain Farms." Agricultural History
78 (Fall 2004).
"Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation" and "Conservation
Movement." Essays in Encyclopedia of the Great Depression
(New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004).
"Can We 'Trust Uncle Sam'? Vermont and the Submarginal Lands
Project, 1934-1936." Vermont History 68 (Winter/Spring
2001): 201-221.
Reviews in Agricultural History, Business History Review,
Environmental History, Journal of Interdisciplinary History,
and Labor.
Courses Taught
History 221: United States History through 1865
History 222: United States History 1865-1980
History 365: U. S. Agricultural History
History 465: History of the U. S. West
History 472: U. S. Environmental History
History 511C: Proseminar in U. S. Political History
History 511D: American Landscapes: Environment, Agriculture, and Region
in U. S. History
Professional Activity
Agricultural History
Society
American Historical Association
American
Society for Environmental History
Forest History Society, Board of Directors
Organization of American Historians
Social Science History Association