Jared Farmer is a professor of history at Stony Brook University. He studies the overlapping historical dimensions of landscape, environment, technology, science, religion, and culture, with regional expertise in the American West. He earned his BA from Utah State University, an MA from the University of Montana, and a PhD from Stanford University. Farmer is the author of three books and the recipient of nine book awards. He has received research grants from the Stanford Humanities Center, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. In 2014, he won the Hiett Prize in the Humanities for scholars “whose work shows extraordinary promise and has a significant public component related to contemporary culture.” In 2017, he was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow.