Rate My Professor Susan Neel

Neel’s research interests encompass the American West, environmental history, tourism, and national parks. Her major publications include the co-authored book Mapping the Four Corners: Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2016); “Love among the Fossils: Earl and Pearl Douglass at Dinosaur National Monument” (Utah Historical Quarterly, 2015); “Newton Drury and the Echo Park Dam Controversy” (Forest and Conservation History, 1994), which received the Theodore Hiddy Award for Best Article in Environmental History from the American Society of Environmental Historians in 1995; and “A Place of Extremes: Nature, History and the American West” (Western Historical Quarterly, 1994), reprinted in A New Significance: Re-envisioning the History of the American West (Oxford University Press, 1996). She has been honored with the Ahmanson/Getty Foundation Research Fellowship at UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Library (1994-1995), Teaching Scholar Certificate from Utah State University (2017), Instructional Development Grant and Award of Merit for Creative Use of Multimedia from Utah System of Higher Education (2008), and NEH Summer Institute participation (1996). Neel has presented public lectures at venues including the American Historical Association Annual Meeting (2017), Utah Historical Society conferences, and Brigham Young University’s Women’s Studies Conference (2012).