Todd Shallat
2002 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Idaho Professor of the Year.
Todd directs the Center for Idaho History and Politics at Boise State University. He also supervises the Office of the City Historian at Boise City Hall. Born in Chicago and raised in San Mateo, California, he received the Ph.D. in Applied History and Social Science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1985. He is the winner of the Henry Adams Book Prize from the Society for Federal History, the Abel Wolman Book Award from the American Public Works Association, the Idaho Book Award from the Idaho Library Association, the Independent Publishing Association's "honorable mention" for history publishing, and the Gold Medal for feature writing from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Book publications include Structures in the Stream: Water, Science, and the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers (1994), Water and the Rise of Public Ownership on the Fresno Plain (1978), and Ethnic Landmarks: Ten Historic Places That Define the City of Trees (2006). He is the editor and primary author of Snake: The Plain and Its People (1994); Harrison Boulevard: Preserving the Past in Boise's North End (1987); and Secrets of the Magic Valley and Hagerman's Remarkable Horse (2002). In 2000, as visiting scholar with the U.S. Mississippi River Commission, he completed a contract history entitled Hope for the Dammed: An Historical Assessment of The Corps of Engineers Environmental Work on the Mississippi River (2000). Prospects: Land Use in the Birds of Prey Natural Area (1987), a policy study commission by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, won the Secretary of the Interior's Outstanding Service Award. He also has been honored as one of Boise State's "top ten" faculty members. In 2002 he was the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Education's "Idaho Professor of the Year." In 2005, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Shallat's research on the threat to New Orleans was featured in The Washington Post, The Houston Chronicle, National Public Radio's Morning Edition, and Technology and Culture. In 2006, Shallat won his university's social science "researcher of the year" award. His production work on Idaho Yesterdays received the Idaho Heritage Trust Media Award.
Public Works Historical Society - site available by February 2004
| Office | L-152F |
| Phone | 208/426-3701 |
| tshalla@boisestate.edu | |
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