Postdoctoral Fellows

Gregory Simon came to the Center In September 2007. Gregory Simon received his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Washington.  His current research explores urbanization and natural resource management in the American West, and the environmental history and political economy of the Bay Area. In Spring 2009, he will teach "Free Trade, NAFTA, and the Environment." Click here for Gregory Simon's complete biography.

Geneva Gano  is a lecturer in the UCLA Dept. of English, where she is teaching a survey course on Modern American Literature, a seminar titled "Place, Race, and Nation", and a lecture course on the Western.

She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Bill Lane Center for West from 2007-2008. Geneva Gano returned to Stanford after detours along the West coast and Puerto Rico. Her publications include articles on John C. Frémont's 1865 exploration narrative and map; Willa Cather's The Professor's House; and Robinson Jeffers' Tamar (forthcoming). She is currently at work on two book projects. The first, Continent's End, is an extension of her dissertation, which examines the special place of the American West in the literary imagination during the 1920s and 30s. The second is an interdisciplinary consideration of the effects of the Mexican Revolution on U.S. literature and art in the early twentieth century.

Tammy Frisby is the Bill Lane Center Executive Director and Director of Research. Frisby earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University's Department of Government. She arrived at Stanford in the autumn of 2006 as a postdoctoral fellow at the Bill Lane Center for the American West. She studies Congress, state politics, and regulatory policymaking. Her current work includes research on the role of scientific knowledge and uncertainty in environmental regulation.

Emily Brock is an assistant professor of history at Georgia State University.  Dr. Brock completed her doctorate in environmental history at Princeton University in 2004, was a postdoctoral fellow at the Bill Lane Center for the American West from 2004-2006, and was a visiting scholar in the History Department of Stanford University from 2006-2007.  Her current project is on the interactions of forest science, the lumber industry and environmental politics in post-logging landscapes in the twentieth century Pacific Northwest.

Lissa Wadewitz is an Assistant Professor of History at Linfield College.  Dr. Wadewitz completed her Ph.D. in History at UCLA in 2004 and spent 2004-2005 as a postdoctoral fellow in native-newcomer relations at the University of Saskatchewan. Wadewitz's research spans both disciplinary and national borders. Her current interests include transnational environmental and social history (especially with regard to salmon fishing), borderlands history, Ethnohistory, labor and class relations, and the history of inter-ethnic interactions in the transnational West. Dr. Wadewitz was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center from 2005 to 2007.