Susan Schulten

Susan Schulten is Associate Professor of United States history at the University of Denver, and the author of The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950 (University of Chicago Press, 2001). She received her B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, and her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. She is now writing a book on the rise of American national identity in the nineteenth century, and is a contributing author to Maps: Finding Our Place in the World (2007).

Some of her recent articles include "The Cartography of Slavery and the Authority of Statistics" (2010), "Emma Willard and the Graphic Foundations of American History," The Journal of Historical Geography 33 (2007), and "Barack Obama, Abraham Lincoln, and John Dewey," The DU Law Review (2009).

Professor Schulten teaches courses on Lincoln, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the history of American ideas and culture, the Great Depression, the Cold War, the American west, war and the presidency, and the methods and philosophy of history.

In 2010 she was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; she currently writes a monthly column for the New York Times' "Disunion" series, which commemorates the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War.