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A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities (Visiting Assistant Professor) Ph.D.: University of California, Davis, 2012 Department Member Since: 2013 BIOGRAPHY Bob Reinhardt writes and teaches about the intersection of environmental history, social history, and political history. This interest has taken Bob down a variety of research paths: a comprehensive history of a timber industry-dependent community; the story of two small towns inundated by hydroelectric dams; and, currently, a history of the eradication of smallpox. Mastering a Scourge: The Global Eradication of Smallpox (University of North Carolina Press, under contract) explains the unique causes, remarkable development, and troubled legacy of the global effort to destroy smallpox. This endeavor began in 1965 as an American initiative led by the U.S. Communicable Disease Center, grew into an international program coordinated by the World Health Organization, and, in 1977, accomplished the first and only deliberate elimination of a disease in human history. Mastering a Scourge argues that smallpox eradication represented a transnational effort to improve global health and achieve foreign policy objectives by mastering the relationships among humans, the smallpox virus, and diverse environments. Bob's teaching also focuses on the reciprocal relationship between humans and their environment in a variety of contexts. Among the courses in his teaching portfolio: "Health and Environment in US History," a class that explores the real and perceived relationships between health and the environment; “Environmental History of Zena,” in which environmental science and history majors collaboratively write the environmental history of a small forest in Oregon; and courses on global, Latin American, and US environmental history. Personal Website: http://carnegie-mellon.academia.edu/BobHReinhardt Curriculum Vitae: http://carnegie-mellon.academia.edu/BobHReinhardt/CurriculumVitae SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Mastering a Scourge: The Global Eradication of Smallpox. Under contract with University of North Carolina Press. Finding a Sense of Place: An Environmental History of Zena (editor). Salem: Polebridge Press, 2013. “Finding a Sense of Place: A Surprising Experiment in Place-Based Collaborative Learning,” American Historical Association’s Perspectives on History (December 2013). “Drowned Towns in the Cold War West: Small Communities and Federal Water Projects,” Western Historical Quarterly 42, number 2 (Summer 2011): 149-172. Winner of the 2011 Bert M. Fireman Award, Western History Association. “The Global Great Society and the US Commitment to Smallpox Eradication,” Endeavour: The History and Philosophy of Science 34 (December 2010): 164-172. COURSES TAUGHT Health and the Environment in US History Epidemic Disease and Public Health