AffiliationsDr. Bill Wyckoff

Earth Sciences

College of Letters and Science

Education

Ph.D., Geography, Syracuse University, 1982

M.A., Geography, Syracuse University, 1979

B.A., Geography, California State University, Northridge, 1977

Research Interests

Cultural and historical geography of the American West; The evolution of the American cultural landscape; Historical cartography.

Selected Intellectual Contributions

Wyckoff, W. (2020), Riding Shotgun with Norman Wallace: Rephotographing the Arizona Landscape, University of New Mexico Press.

Price, M., Lewis, M., Wyckoff, W., and Rowntree, L. (2019), Globalization and Diversity, 6th edition, Pearson.

Wyckoff, W. (2018), Every Word Belongs (intro essay to special issue honoring Ivan Doig), Montana: The Magazine of Western History 68, no. 3, pp. 3-5.

Rowntree, L., Lewis, M., Price, M., and Wyckoff, W. (2017), Diversity Amid Globalization, 7th edition, Pearson.

Wyckoff, W. (2016), Producing Public Geographies: Creating a Field Guide to the Western American Landscape, Historical Geography 44: 2-25.

Wyckoff, W. (2016), Cartography and capitalism: George Clason and the mapping of western American development, 1903-1931, Journal of Historical Geography 52: 48-60.

Wyckoff, W. (2014), How to Read the American West: A Field Guide, University of Washington Press.

Dilsaver, L. and W. Wyckoff, (2009), Failed National Parks in the Last Best Place, Montana The Magazine of Western History 59, 4: 3-24.

Wyckoff, W. (2006), On the Road Again: Montana’s Changing Landscape, University of Washington Press.

Dilsaver, L. and W. Wyckoff, (2005), The Political Geography of National Parks, Pacific Historical Review 74: 237-266.

Wyckoff, W. (1999), Creating Colorado: The Making of a Western American Landscape, 1860-1940, Yale University Press.

Wyckoff, W. and Lary Dilsaver, eds. (1995), The Mountainous West: Explorations in Historical Geography, University of Nebraska Press.

Wyckoff, W. (1988), The Developer’s Frontier: The Making of the Western New York Landscape, Yale University Press.

Selected Awards

Provost’s Distinguished Lecturer, Montana State University, 2020

Chauncy Harris Award, Brigham Young University, 2017

Aubrey Haines Award and Lecture, National Park Service, 2016

Distinguished Historical Geographer Award and Lecture, American Association of Geographers, 2016

Ridgeley Distinguished Lecturer, Illinois State University, 2015

Anna K. Fridley Award for Distinguished Teaching, Montana State University, 2013

Everhart Award (Eastern National Park Association) (with L. Dilsaver), for best peer-reviewed research article on the national parks, 2006

Annaley Naegle Redd Lecture, Brigham Young University, 2004

Cox Award for Creative Scholarship and Teaching, Montana State University, 2003

Text and Academic Authors Award for best new college text in humanities/social sciences, 2001

Burlington Northern Foundation Faculty Achievement Award for Teaching, Montana State University, 1990

Selected Engagement, Outreach, and Service

Chair, Jackson Book Prize Committee, American Association of Geographers, 2018-present

Member, Editorial Board, Montana The Magazine of Western History, 2014-present

Moderator, Montana State Geography Bee, 2018-2019