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Bob H. Reinhardt

Bob Reinhardt, Boise River, Friendship Bridge, Environmental History, Photo by Hue Herrick

Associate Professor

Director, The Atlas of Drowned Towns

Director, Working History Center

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

Fall 2024 Office Hours:

Monday 1 – 3 pm. Wednesday 11 am – 1 pm.

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 below
Bob H. Reinhardt’s Scholarworks