University of Wyoming Press Imprint

FAIN: ZRE-283623-22

University Press of Colorado (Louisville, CO 80027-1697)
Darrin Pratt (Project Director: May 2021 to October 2021)
David Kruger (Project Director: October 2021 to February 2023)

The creation of a University of Wyoming Press imprint, focused on books in democracy and the United States, Public Humanities, and Environmental Humanities, creating one job.

The University Press of Colorado, in conjunction with its supporting member institution the University of Wyoming, is building a University of Wyoming Press imprint. In order to further this work, we seek support from the NEH to fund a key position to to move the imprint forward, that of an acquisitions editor.

Associated Products

The Art and Life of Merritt Dana Houghton in the Northern Rockies, 1878-1919 (Book)
Title: The Art and Life of Merritt Dana Houghton in the Northern Rockies, 1878-1919
Author: Michael A. Amundson
Abstract: etween 1891 and 1915, pen-and-ink artist Merritt Dana Houghton made over 200 bird’s-eye sketches of towns, ranches, mines, businesses, historic sites, and animals in Wyoming, northern Colorado, Montana, Idaho, and Washington state. Historian Michael A. Amundson brings these many views together for the first time in these pages. This lavishly illustrated biography details Houghton’s life and work from his birth in Michigan in 1846 to his death in 1919 in Spokane through extensive genealogical records, newspaper accounts, and his illustrations—including historic ranches and bird’s-eye views of Fort Collins, Colorado; Dillon, Montana; and Spokane, Washington and the only known illustrations of long-lost places like Pearl, Colorado, and Rambler, Wyoming. Also included is a reproduction of a four-foot-by-eight-foot view of Sheridan, Wyoming and a sixty-image sample portfolio of his best-preserved illustrations organized by type. Houghton’s work depicts the infrastructure of the new settler society that was remaking the West in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, and Amundson demonstrates how Houghton’s vision of the American West remains active today.
Year: 2023
Primary URL: https://upcolorado.com/university-of-wyoming-press/item/6254-the-art-and-life-of-merritt-dana-houghton-in-the-northern-rockies-1878-1919
Primary URL Description: University of Wyoming Press product page, on University Press of Colorado website. University of Wyoming Press is an imprint of the University Press of Colorado.
Secondary URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.608082?searchText=The%20Art%20and%20Life%20of%20Merritt%20Dana%20Houghton%20in%20the%20Northern%20Rockies%2C%201878-1919&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DThe%2BArt%2Band%2BLife%2Bof%2BMerritt%2BDana%2BHo
Secondary URL Description: Link to JSTOR product record.
Access Model: For sale (hardcover/ebook) and subscription only (ebook)
Publisher: University of Wyoming Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-1-64642-36
Copy sent to NEH?: No

University of Wyoming Press Acquisitions Editor (Staff/Faculty/Fellow Position)
Name: University of Wyoming Press Acquisitions Editor
Abstract: Our NEH SHARP grant allowed us to create a new acquisitions editorial position in support of our University of Wyoming Press imprint. The creation and launching of this imprint was the primary objective for which we sought NEH funding. Robert Ramaswamy (he/they) was hired as the University of Wyoming Press acquisitions editor in February 2022, after working as an assistant editor for the Ohio State University Press and as an editorial assistant for University of Michigan Press/Michigan Publishing. His scholarly lists at UWP include history, environmental humanities, public humanities, and democracy in the United States. Robert lives in Ann Arbor, MI with his partner, Anna, two dogs, and nine chickens.
Year: 2023
Primary URL: https://upcolorado.com/university-of-wyoming-press
Primary URL Description: Link to the description of the University of Wyoming Press imprint on the University Press of Colorado website.
Secondary URL: https://upcolorado.com/about-us/staff
Secondary URL Description: Link to the staff page of the University Press of Colorado, where Robert Ramaswamy's biography can be found.

Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of America's Biggest Retail Stores (Book)
Title: Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of America's Biggest Retail Stores
Editor: Bart Elmore
Editor: Rachel S. Gross
Editor: Sherri Sheu
Abstract: Big Box USA presents a new look at how the big box retail store has dramatically reshaped the US economy and its ecosystems in the last half century. From the rural South to the frigid North, from inside stores to ecologies far beyond, this book examines the relationships that make up one of the most visible features of late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century American life. The rise of big box retail since the 1960s has transformed environments on both local and global scales. Almost everyone has explored the aisles of big box stores. The allure of “everyday low prices” and brightly colored products of every kind connect shoppers with a global marketplace. Contributors join a growing conversation between business and environmental history, addressing the ways American retail institutions have affected physical and cultural ecologies around the world. Essays on Walmart, Target, Cabela’s, REI, and Bass Pro Shops assess the “bigness” of these superstores from “smokestacks to coat racks” and contend that their ecological impacts are not limited to the footprints of parking lots and manufacturing but also play a didactic role in educating consumers about their relationships with the environment. A model for historians seeking to bring business and environmental histories together in their analyses of merchant capital’s role in the landscapes of everyday life and how it has remade humanrelationships with nature, Big Box USA is a must-read for students and scholars of the environment, business, sustainability, retail professionals, and a general audience.
Year: 2024
Primary URL: https://upcolorado.com/university-of-wyoming-press/item/6529-big-box-usa
Primary URL Description: University of Wyoming Press/University Press of Colorado website
Secondary URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.11498418
Secondary URL Description: JSTOR stable URL
Access Model: For sale, but will made OA via JSTOR's Path to Open program 3 years after pub.
Publisher: University of Wyoming Press
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 978-1-64642-59
Copy sent to NEH?: No

Mega-Dams in World Literature: Literary Responses to Twentieth-Century Dam Building (Book)
Title: Mega-Dams in World Literature: Literary Responses to Twentieth-Century Dam Building
Author: Margaret Ziolkowski
Abstract: Mega-Dams in World Literature reveals the varied effects of large dams on people and their environments as expressed in literary works, focusing on the shifting attitudes toward large dams that emerged over the course of the twentieth century. Margaret Ziolkowski covers the enthusiasm for large-dam construction that took place during the mid-twentieth-century heyday of mega-dams, the increasing number of people displaced by dams, the troubling environmental effects they incur, and the types of destruction and protest to which they may be subject. Using North American, Native American, Russian, Egyptian, Indian, and Chinese novels and poems, Ziolkowski explores the supposed progress that these structures bring. The book asks how the human urge to exploit and control waterways has affected our relationships to nature and the environment and argues that the high modernism of the twentieth century, along with its preoccupation with development, casts the hydroelectric dam as a central symbol of domination over nature and the power of the nation state. Beyond examining the exultation of large dams as symbols of progress, Mega-Dams in World Literature takes a broad international and cultural approach that humanizes and personalizes the major issues associated with large dams through nuanced analyses, paying particular attention to issues engendered by high modernism and settler colonialism. Both general and specialist readers interested in human-environment relationships will enjoy this prescient book.
Year: 2024
Primary URL: https://upcolorado.com/university-of-wyoming-press/item/6558-mega-dams-in-world-literature
Primary URL Description: University of Wyoming Press/University Press of Colorado website
Secondary URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.12801261
Secondary URL Description: JSTOR stable URL
Access Model: For sales in print and ebook form.
Publisher: University of Wyoming Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-1-64642-59
Copy sent to NEH?: No

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