Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow, 2001-03
Virginia Center for Digital History &
Lecturer, Media Studies Program
Director, Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Project, 2002-04
University of Virginia
Seefeldt@virginia.edu

Doug Seefeldt is a 2001-2003 Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Virginia where he teaches in the Media Studies Program and conducts research at the Virginia Center for Digital History. Currently the Director of UVa's Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Project, Doug is a western historian with a strong interest in environmental history and digital scholarship. He has had the opportunity to present his work at meetings of the Western History Association, the Historical Society of New Mexico, the Arizona Historical Society, the Western Social Science Association, and at conferences held at Northern Arizona University, the University of Oregon, and Cornell University. Doug has taught courses on the 20th-century American West, North American environmental history, American cultural history, and a Web-based U.S. history survey course. At UVa., he teaches "Media and the Mythic West" and "History and Digital Media" in the Media Studies program, and a team-taught course titled "American Wests," cross-listed in Anthropology and History. Doug is hard at work revising his dissertation, titled, “Constructing Western Pasts: Place and Public Memory in the Twentieth-Century American West,” for publication.

Doug grew up in Colorado and took his Ph.D. in history from Arizona State University in 2001, his MA in history from the University of Oregon in 1996, and his BA in cultural studies from Hampshire College in 1991. Doug serves on the Advisory Board of the Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia. He lives in Charlottesville with his wife Tara Wood and their two cats Lady and Bix.

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