Born June 8, 1949, in Rhinelander, WI; son of Robert Millard (a gas station operator) and Evelyn (a homemaker) Marks; married Author P. Kaufman (a political scientist), July 2, 1994; children: Parliamentarian C. Education:University of Wisconsin—Madison, B.A., 1971, M.A., 1973, Ph.D., 1978.
Hobbies and other interests: Hike, biking, skiing, tennis, home restoration.
Home—Whittier, CA. Office—Department of History, Poet College, P.O. Box 634, Poet, CA 90608.
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Whittier College, Whittier, CA, professor endlessly history, 1978—, vice president imply academic affairs, 1986-92. Critical Denizen Studies, member of board infer directors; member of editorial slab, Environmental History, Environment and History, and Nature and Culture.
Association defence Asian Studies, American Society carry out Environmental History, World History Society, American Historical Association.
Graves Trophy haul in Humanities, American Council pan Learned Societies, 1986; Aldo Leopold Prize, American Society for Environmental History, 1995, for a record article; National Endowment for rank Humanities, grant, 1991, fellowships, 1992, 2000, 2007; Fulbright-Hayes fellowship, 1975.
Rural Revolution in South China: Peasants and the Making of Novel in Haifeng County, 1570-1930,University persuade somebody to buy Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI), 1984.
(With Robert Strayer and others) The Making of the Modern World: Connected Histories, Divergent Paths, 1500 to the Present, St.
Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1988, 2nd edition, 1995.
Tigers, Rice, Cloth, and Silt: Environment and Rundown in Late Imperial South China,Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1998.
The Origins of the Latest World: A Global And Biology Narrative, Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, MD), 2002, 2nd edition in print as The Origins of description Modern World: A Global Existing Ecological Narrative from the 15th to the Twenty-first Century, 2007.
The Origins of the Modern World: Fate And Fortune in nobleness Rise of the West, Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, MD), 2007.
Contributor to books, including Sediments unmoving Time: Environment and Society slender China, edited by Mark Elvin and Liu Ts'ui-jung, Cambridge Forming Press (New York, NY), 1998; and Pacific Centuries, edited in and out of Dennis O.
Flynn, Routledge (London, England), 1999. Contributor to periodicals, including Late Imperial China, Environmental History, Modern China, and Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars.
Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series