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Professor Young is on leave for the 2023-2024 academic year
Professor Young focuses on the听cultural and environmental history of听the modern United States and the American West.
At the undergraduate level, Professor Young teaches courses including "U.S. History since 1865," "Environmental History of North America,"听"History and Memory in American Culture"听and "History of Outdoor Recreation."听Her graduate offerings include "Cultural History and Theory," 鈥淰isual Culture,鈥澨齛nd "Memory and History in Global Perspective." Professor Young seeks to support student learning at all levels and to advance the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History.听She is the recipient of the 2016 Boulder Faculty Assembly Award for Distinction in Teaching and Pedagogy and the 2020 Award for Teaching with Technology from CU鈥檚 Arts & Sciences Support of Education Through Technology.
Professor Young received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College and her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.听Her most recent book,听听(Oxford University Press, 2021), traces the hidden history of camping and the outdoors in American life that connects a familiar recreational pastime to camps for functional needs and political purposes. Camping Grounds was reviewed in in April 2022 and won the from the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association.听Her first book,听听(University of California Press, 2006, published under her previous name of Phoebe S. Kropp), examined public memories of the Spanish past, the built environment, regional development, and race relations in Southern California between the 1880s and the 1930s. She co-edited an anthology entitled听听(with Marguerite S. Shaffer, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), including a co-authored introductory essay on 鈥淭he Nature-Culture Paradox.鈥� She is also co-editor (with Annie Gilbert Coleman) of a new book series at the University of Washington Press: 鈥�.鈥� She has received multiple research grants, including fellowships from the Henry E. Huntington Library, the Smithsonian Institution, and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Professor Young is accepting听M.A. and Ph.D. students, though notes that she will be on sabbatical in 2023-24.
Recent graduates have worked on the history of modern American Judaism and homosexuality, immigrant detention in the Southwest, transnational black consciousness movements in the Americas, and Colorado coal strikes in history and memory.
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