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Bob H. Reinhardt

Bob giving a lecture to students while standing in Boise River
Bob Reinhardt, Boise River, Friendship Bridge, Environmental History, Photo by Hue Herrick

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

Bob Reinhardt, 2015 roundtable on anti-vaccination, Salem, Oregon. Credit: Statesman Journal.

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

2016 lecture at University of Oregon.
2016 lecture at University of Oregon. Credit: Kylie Juggert.

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.