From Thoreau to Muir : changes in nineteenth-century American conceptions of the environment

Robert E. Bieder

Robert E. Bieder has taught at several universities in the United States including Indiana University-Bloomington where he was Professor of History and Environmental Studies. He has held five Fulbights and two postdoctoral year-long fellowships at The Newberry Libary and at the Smithsonian Institution. He has taught in Germany, Malaysia, Finland and Hungary. He is an award-winning author and has published extensively. His books include Science Encounters the Indian; Contemplating Others: Cultural Contacts in Red and White America; A Brief Historical Survey of the Expropriation of American Indian Remains; Native American Communities in Wisconsin, 1600-1960 and Bear, the latter of which has been translated into five languages. Email: rbieder@indiana.edu