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Professor Young focuses on the��cultural and environmental history of��the modern United States and the American West.

At the undergraduate level, Professor Young teaches courses including "U.S. History since 1865," "Environmental History of North America,"��“U.S. History, 1973 to the Present,” and "History of Outdoor Recreation."��Her graduate offerings include "Cultural History and Theory," “Visual Culture,”��and "Memory and History in Global Perspective." Professor Young seeks to support student learning at all levels and to advance the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History. She is the recipient of Boulder Faculty Assembly Award for Distinction in Teaching and Pedagogy (2016), an Award for Teaching with Technology from CU’s Arts & Sciences Support of Education Through Technology (2020), and an Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award��from CU’s Graduate School (2023).

Professor Young received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College and her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.��Her most recent book, ��(Oxford University Press, 2021), traces the hidden history of camping and the outdoors in American life that connects a familiar recreational pastime to camps for functional needs and political purposes. Camping Grounds was reviewed in ��in April 2022 and won the ��from the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association.��Her first book, ��(University of California Press, 2006, published under her previous name of Phoebe S. Kropp), examined public memories of the Spanish past, the built environment, regional development, and race relations in Southern California between the 1880s and the 1930s. She co-edited an anthology entitled ��(with Marguerite S. Shaffer, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), including a co-authored introductory essay on “The Nature-Culture Paradox.” She is also co-editor (with Annie Gilbert Coleman) of a new book series at the University of Washington Press: “” and sits on the Editorial Board for the Western Historical Quarterly.��She has two veins of new research: one investigating historical and contemporary discourse promoting the “nature cure” – i.e. beliefs that outdoor recreation is good for human health and well being; the second concerns the art heist of a John James Audubon painting of a buffalo calf and themes of theft, value, wildlife, the West, and self-invention.��She has received multiple research grants, including fellowships from the Henry E. Huntington Library, the Smithsonian Institution, and the American Council of Learned Societies.

����Professor Young is accepting��M.A. and Ph.D. students.

She has advised dissertations and theses on the memory and legal politics around reparations for Canadian boarding schools for First Nations peoples, the culture and economics of commercial jet travel,��a history of modern American Judaism and homosexuality, immigrant detention in the Southwest, transnational black consciousness movements in the Americas, and Colorado coal strikes in history and memory.

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