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Professor Richard White is the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History and has experience teaching at Michigan State University, University of Washington, and University of Utah. Also, Professor White is a faculty co-director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West, former President of the Organization of American Historians, and the principal investigator for the "Shaping the West", a project in the Spatial History Lab at Stanford University, which explores the construction of space by transcontinental railroads during the late nineteenth century. He received a MacArthur fellowship and was awarded a Mellon Distinguished Professor grant in 2007. He is an historian of the United State specializing in the American West, the history of capitalism, environmental history, history and memory, and Native American history. His work has occasionally spilled into Mexico, Canada, France, Australia, and Ireland. He has authored Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America, Remembering Ahanagran: Storytelling in a Family’s Past, The Organic Machine, “It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own:” A New History of the American West, The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change Among the Choctaws, • American historian This article is about the historian. For other people with similar names, see Richard White (disambiguation). Richard White (born 1947) is an American historian who is the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History Emeritus at Stanford University. Earlier in his career, he taught at the University of Washington, University of Utah, and Michigan State University. White received his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington.[1] He was chosen for the MacArthur Fellows Program in 1995, and was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2016.[2] White was founding director of Stanford's Spatial History Project,[3] which implements digital technologies and analyses to illuminate patterns and anomalies for research purposes. He is a two-time winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, past President of the Organization of American Historians, and the author of books about the American West, Native American history, the United States in the Gilded Age, railroads, capitalism, and environmental history. Richard White (historian)
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