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
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
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