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James E. Sherow
Associate Professor
Department of History
Kansas State University
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James E. Sherow was glad to return to his home state when he took a position in the department of history at Kansas State University in 1992.

In addition to teaching courses in environmental history, Kansas history and the history of the West, he has extensively studied the Konza Prairie, its history and how it has been affected by changes through time.

Sherow was awarded the William L. Stamey Teaching award for the College of Arts and Sciences at K-State in May of 1995. He has also been active in the Endowment for the Humanities, both in Kansas and nationwide and has worked as a consulting historian in various aspects of public history.

Sherow, associate professor of history with an emphasis in environmental history, earned his bachelor and master of arts degrees from Wichita State University in 1976 and 1978. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in 1987, and that fall his dissertation, "Discord in the Valley of Content," won the Westerners International-Phi Alpha Theta Award for the best dissertation in Western history. He taught as an assistant professor at Southwest Texas State university before arriving at KSU in the fall of 1992.

He is the author of two books, four book chapters, and thirteen journal articles.

His 1991 summer-teacher institute in environmental history for public school teachers was the first such program underwritten by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and NEH awarded funding for a second summer-teacher institute for the summer 1995.