Dr. Emily Wakild joined the faculty of the Department of History at Boise State University in 2012. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of Arizona in Tucson, and has a B.A. in History and Politics from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. Her research interests include the social and environmental history of revolution in Latin America, the comparative history of conservation, and cultural understandings of climate history. Before coming to Boise State, Dr. Wakild taught at Wake Forest University in North Carolina where she led a summer study abroad program on nature conservation in Peru. She also has taught courses or studied in Ecuador, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, and Chile, and spent three years teaching middle school through the Teach for America program in deep South Texas.
Articles
Social Landscaping in the Forests of Mexico: An Environmental Interpretation of Cardenismo, 1934-1940 (with Christopher R. Boyer), Hispanic American Historical Review (2012)
This article reinterprets the pivotal presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas of Mexico, (1934–40) through the prism...
Border Chasm: International Boundary Parks and Mexican Conservation, 1935–1945, Environmental History (2009)
The failure of the Mexican government to agree to a joint park along the border...
Naturalizing Modernity: Urban Parks, Public Gardens and Drainage Projects in Porfirian Mexico City, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos (2007)
This article argues that governmental modernization strategies in Mexico during the Porfiriato relied on calculated...
'It is to Preserve Life, to Work for the Trees': The Steward of Mexico's Forests, Miguel Angel de Quevedo, 1862-1948, Forest History Today (2006)
An important chapter in Mexico’s forest history is told through the life of Miguel Angel...
Books
Contributions to Books
A Revolutionary Civilization: National Parks, Transnational Exchanges, and the Construction of Modern Mexico, Civilizing Nature : National Parks in Global Historical Perspective (2012)
Parables of Chapultepec: Urban Parks, National Landscapes, and Contradictory Conservation in Modern Mexico, A Land Between Waters : Environmental Histories of Modern Mexico (2012)
Environment and Environmentalism, A Companion to Mexican History and Culture (2011)
Historians and chroniclers of the Mexican experience have long noticed the intermingling of nature and...