Associate Professor
Specializations
- Environmental History
- Public History
- History of the American West
- History of Public Health
Education
- Ph.D., University of California, Davis
- M.A., University of Oregon
- B.A., Willamette University
Prior to coming to Boise State, Bob Reinhardt served as Executive Director of the Willamette Heritage Center, a five-acre museum in Salem, Oregon. Previously, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University and taught at Western Oregon University and Willamette University. Bob also is the director of The Atlas of Drowned Towns and Boise State’s Working History Center
Contact
2015 roundtable on anti-vaccination, Salem, Oregon. Credit: Statesman Journal.
Office: L173
Phone: (208) 426-1367
bobreinhardt@boisestate.edu
Spring 2025 Office Hours:
By appointment
Please schedule in advance. Schedule an appointment. Additional appointments on request.
Teaching
- United States History
- Public History in Theory and Practice
- History of the American West
- Nature’s Archive and North American Environmental History
Current Graduate Students
- Chuck Rumpf
- Rachel Klade
- Camille Daw
Selected Scholarship
Struggle on the North Santiam: Power and Community on the Margins of the American West
(Oregon State University Press, 2020)
The End of a Global Pox: America and the Eradication of Smallpox in the Cold War Era
(The University of North Carolina Press, 2015).
Finding a Sense of Place: An Environmental History of Zena
(Polebridge Press, 2013).
To read more about Dr. Reinhardt, his work or his research, click on his Scholarworks page at Bob H. Reinhardt’s Scholarworks.