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H Gelfand
Maury Hall, Room 211
MSC 2001
office phone: 540-568-4765
e-mail: gelfanhm@jmu.edu
fax: 540-568-5808

Mailing address
 James Madison University
History Dept MSC 2001
58 Bluestone Drive
Harrisonburg VA  22807
U.S.A.

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Associate Professor of History and Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies

Education
Ph.D., University of Arizona (History and American Indian Studies)

Fields and specialties
 Recent America, North American West

Teaching areas
 Recent U.S., North American West, Honors, Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies

Research interests
 Surfing, Environmental Activism, Robert Kennedy, Charles Gatewood and the Chiricahua Apache, Pacific Island Cultures and Issues, North American West

Selected publications and presentations
Sea Change at Annapolis: The United States Naval Academy, 1949-2000 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2006).

"The Surfrider Foundation and Environmental Activism," American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch Conference, Honolulu, HI, 2007.

"Coastal Environmental Consciousness in California's Culture, 1969-Present," Urban History Association Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 2010.

Service activities

Advisor for Breakdance Club and Longboard Club
      

 



 

 




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Department of History MSC 2001
58 Bluestone Drive
Harrisonburg, VA  22807
Jackson Hall Room 201
Phone: (540) 568-6132
Fax: (540) 568-5808
E-mail: history@jmu.edu