U.C. Davis History Department - Faculty

Ari Kelman
Associate Professor

E: akelman@ucdavis.edu
T: 530-752-1634
O: 3201 SSH

Academic Biography

Associate Professor of History, University of California Davis, 2005-present
Associate Professor of History and Department Chair, University of Denver, 2004-2005
Assistant Professor of History, University of Denver, 2000-2004
Reach for Excellence Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma Honors College, 1998-2000
Assistant Professor of History and Geography, University of Oklahoma, 1998-2000

Research Interests

Historical Memory; The Built Environment; US Environmental History; Landscape Theory and History; The Civil War and Reconstruction; Native American Studies

Selected Publications

"Boundary Issues: Clarifying New Orleans's Murky Edges." Forthcoming in The Journal of American History, Volume 94, No. 3, (December, 2007).

"John Brown's Bodies."� The Times Literary Supplement, (February 16, 2007), 3-4.

“New Orleans’s Phantom Slave Insurrection of 1853: Racial Anxiety, Urban Ecology, and Human Bodies as Public Spaces.” In Andrew Isenberg (ed.), The Nature of Cities: New Directions in Urban Environmental History. (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2006), 3-23.

“Deadly Currents: John Ross’s Decision of 1861.” Reprinted in Albert Hurtado (ed.), Major Problems in American Indian History. (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2001), 285-299.

A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003). Received the 2004 Abbott Lowell Cummings Award.

Current Graduate Advisees

Bob Reinhardt