Faculty
Kevin J. Fernlund, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History and Secondary Education
Curriculum Vitae
Kevin J. Fernlund is an Associate Professor of History and Education and the Executive Director of the Western History Association. Prof. Fernlund is a Fulbright Scholar 2001-2002 (Vietnam) and is editor of Experiencing the Southwest: A Biography Series, which is published by the University of Arizona Press. He is the author of William Henry Holmes and the Rediscovery of the American West (2000), which the Denver Public Library selected as an "Honor Book" in the Caroline Bancroft History Prize competition for 2001; the book was also short-listed for the prestigious Evans Biography Award in 2000. He also edited The Cold War American West, 1945 to 1989 (1998). According to the New Mexico Historical Review, "The pioneering essays in [this] volume will mark the starting point for all future historians." Prof. Fernlund is currently working on a biography of Lyndon B. Johnson and the American West for the University of Oklahoma Press. He is also interested in teaching with documents and is editor of Selected Historical Documents to Accompany America's History, Vol. 2: Since 1865, Sixth Edition, Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008 (he is also editor of the 5th Edition).
To contact Dr. Fernlund please use the following email: fernlund@umsl.edu