Patricia Nelson Limerick

Patricia Nelson Limerick (born May 17 1951) is an American historian, considered to be one of the leading historians of the American West. She was born and raised in Banning, California.

Limerick received a B.A. in American Studies in 1972 from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Ph.D. in American Studies in 1980 from Yale University. She worked at Harvard University as an Assistant Professor from 1980 to 1984. Previously she taught at Yale as a graduate teaching assistant, where helped teach the well-regarded 'daily themes' class. Since then Limerick has been at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she is Professor of History and chair of the Board of the Center of the American West.

Limerick is a former president of the American Studies Association (1996-1997) and the Western History Association (2000). She is known for her 1987 book "The Legacy of Conquest", which is part of a body of historical writing sometimes known as the New Western History. In 1995, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.cite web|url = http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1142715/k.2918/Fellows_List__July_1995.htm|title = MacArthur Fellows July 1995 |author = The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation|accessdate = 2007-06-02]

Works

*"The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West". New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1979. ISBN 0-393-30497-3 (1988 paperback).
*"Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West". New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. ISBN 0-393-32102-9 (2001 paperback).

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