Campbell Karlsgodt, Elizabeth	Escobedo, Elizabeth	Ford Faggan, Yasmaine	Gibbs, Michael
Goodfriend, Joyce	Helstosky, Carol	Ioris, Rafael	Nair, Rahul
Philpott, William	Rockwell, Nicholas	Romero, II, Tom I.	Schulten, Susan
Scarcion, Jonathan	Tague, Ingrid

Susan  Schulten

• Associate Professor and Department Chair
• Sturm Hall 361
• 303-871-2970
• sschulte@du.edu

Focus:

Nineteenth and twentieth-century U.S. history, and the history of mapping.

Background:

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1995

B.A. University of California at Berkeley, 1989

Interests:

I came to the University of Denver in 1996 after completing my dissertation under the direction of Bruce Kuklick at the University of Pennsylvania. I teach a range of courses in United States history, including the Civil War and Reconstruction, Lincoln, American intellectual and cultural history, War and the Presidency, the Great Depression, the culture and politics of the Cold War, the American west, and historiography.

My first book, The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950 (University of Chicago Press), examined the place of geographical knowledge in American life during the nation's rise to international stewardship.

I am now writing a book on the rise of new forms of cartography in American life which focuses on the rise of thematic mapping. The book is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press, and will be accompanied by a website that showcases the wide range of maps that flourished in nineteenth-century America.

I also have an abiding interest in Lincoln and the Civil War, and contribute to the New York Times' "Disunion" series on the sectional crisis. In 2010 I was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation grant to advance my research on thematic mapping.

You can find more of my research here: https://portfolio.du.edu/pc/port?portfolio=sschulte