Specializations
Environmental History
Public History
History of the American West
History of Public Health
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Davis
M.A., University of Oregon
B.A., Willamette University
Prior to coming to Boise State, Bob Reinhardt served as Executive Director of the Willamette Heritage Center, a five-acre museum in Salem, Oregon. Previously, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University and taught at Western Oregon University and Willamette University. Bob also coordinates the department’s internship program — an excellent opportunity for students to explore the variety of careers in history.
Contact
Office: L173
Phone: (208) 426-1367
bobreinhardt@boisestate.edu
Office Hours: Mon/Tues 1:00-3:00
Schedule office appointment: https://goo.gl/4fyZdj
Teaching
United States History
Global Environmental History
History of the American West
Graduate Seminar in Applied Historical Research

2016 lecture at University of Oregon. Credit: Kylie Juggert.
Graduate Students
Selected Scholarship
The End of a Global Pox: America and the Eradication of Smallpox in the Cold War Era
(The University of North Carolina Press, 2015).
Finding a Sense of Place: An Environmental History of Zena
(Polebridge Press, 2013).
“Smallpox Denaturalized, Demonized, and Eradicable,”
Environmental History 20, no. 4 (2015).
To read more about Dr. Reinhardt, his work or his research, click on his Scholarworks page below