{"id":17944,"date":"2005-11-07T15:29:29","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T20:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=17944"},"modified":"2024-07-08T13:42:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T17:42:12","slug":"otis-lecture-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2005\/11\/07\/otis-lecture-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Historian William Cronon to give Otis Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2005\/11\/cronon_william.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"135\" height=\"185\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2005\/11\/cronon_william.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" alt=\"William Cronon\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/images\/blank.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blank image\" width=\"20\" height=\"5\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>William Cronon, a leading scholar on the human relationship with land and nature, visits Bates College to give the ninth annual Otis Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Cronon&#8217;s talk is titled &#8220;Saving Nature in Time: The Past and Future of Environmentalism.&#8221; Made possible through the Philip J. Otis Endowment, the lecture is open to the public at no cost.<\/p>\n<p>Cronon is noted for his work on environmental history, the writing and rhetoric of history and geography, and U.S. social and economic history, with a focus on the American West and frontier. His Otis Lecture is based on a forthcoming book of the same title.<\/p>\n<p>Cronon is the Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of such works as <em>Nature&#8217;s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West<\/em> (W.W. Norton, 1991), one of three nominees for the Pulitzer Prize in history; <em>Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature<\/em> (W.W. Norton, 1995) and <em>Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England<\/em> (Hill and Wang, 1983), which examines the relationship between humans and the land in New England.<\/p>\n<p>Cronon received a D.Phil. degree at Oxford University in 1981 and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1990. He has been a Rhodes Scholar, Guggenheim Fellow and MacArthur Foundation Fellow, and has won distinguished teaching awards from Yale and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.<\/p>\n<p>The annual Otis Lecture at Bates is funded by the Philip J. Otis Endowment, established in 1996 by a gift from Margaret V.B. and C. 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