March 28, 2011
WISCONSIN: THE CRONON AFFAIR
Once upon a time, professors led quiet lives, walking slowly from seminars to tea in panelled rooms. Nowadays they wake up in the middle of media storms. The latest scholar to whom this has happened is William Cronon, who teaches environmental and Western history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He was famous, as scholars go, before the storm, for complex, vivid booksabout how Americans have shaped the land. A Rhodes Scholar and a MacArthur Fellow, he had also won university-wide teaching prizes, both at Yale and at Madison. He will be the next president of the
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