Washington and Lee University
Sterling Evans of the department of history at the University of Oklahoma discussed "Nothing New about NAFTA: North American Connections and Their Historical Lessons" on Feb. 18, 2010, at Washington and Lee University in the first of a four-part series of lectures that is examining "Nature and Politics in the Americas."
Evans joined the history faculty at Oklahoma in January 2009 in the newly endowed Welsh Chair. He is the author of Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, which won the Theodore Saloutos Best Book Prize from the Agricultural History Society in 2008.
Evans' interest in the environmental history of Latin America prompted him to write The Green Republic: A Conservation History of Costa Rica, and to work on his current project, Damming Sonora: Water, Agriculture, and Environmental Change in Northwest Mexico.
"Nature and Politics in the Americas" features nationally- and internationally-known guest lecturers who are examining ways in which the physical environment helped shape human history in Latin America as well as discussing the ecology of international trade, conservation and national parks, climate history and environmental justice.