Kieko Matteson
Assistant Professor
Environmental History, France, Europe
Office: Sakamaki A409
Phone: (808) 956-6757
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A.B. Smith College, 1990; MA, PhD Yale University, 1995, 2008
Born and raised in Vermont and with family ties in Hawai`i, Kieko Matteson developed an early interest in environmental history while hiking and birding in New England and the U.S. West. Later stints in France and Finland led her to explore the history of natural resource conservation and land use in Europe. Her 2008 dissertation, “Masters of their Woods: Conservation, Community, and Conflict in Revolutionary France” was awarded the American Society for Environmental History’s Rachel Carson Prize and Yale’s Henry A. Turner Prize in European History. Dr. Matteson is currently writing a book on forest politics and policy in Revolutionary France, while also researching early modern ornithology and avian commodities.
Prior to joining the History Department, Dr. Matteson served as the Executive Director of the World History Association.
Her current course offerings include U.S. and world environmental history, Modern France, Modern Europe, and history methods and historiography.
Representative publications:
“Habeas Porpoise: Florida's Double Standard on Violent Offenders.” Counterpunch, 8 March 2010
“‘Bad citizens’ with ‘murderous teeth’: Goats into Frenchmen, 1789–1827.” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, Carol E. Harrison and Kathryn A. Edwards, eds., Vol. 34, 2006
“Trash,” Gendai Amerika no Kiiwaado [Keywords of Contemporary America], Mari Yoshihara and Yujin Yaguchi, eds. Chuo-koron-shinsha, 2006
“The Case for World Environmental History: Review of K. Sivaramakrishnan’s Modern Forests: Statemaking and Environmental Change in Colonial Eastern India.” Pacific Circle Bulletin, January 2003