Title: Associate Professor
Institution: Boise State University
Address: 1910 University Drive, Department of History, 83725
Email: bobreinhardt@boisestate.edu
Phone: (208) 426-1367
Visit Bob H.’s Research Website
Research Interests: Displaced communities, river development projects, community outreach and engagement, community archiving, digital history, public history, agency history
Biographical Sketch:
Bob H. Reinhardt is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and the School of the Environment at Boise State University, where he works in the fields of environmental history, public history, the history of the American West, and the history of public health. Bob is the director of The Atlas of Drowned Towns (drownedtowns.com), a digital public history project exploring the lost histories of communities that were inundated, displaced, and disappeared by river development projects in the American West. Bob’s previous publications include Struggle on the North Santiam: Power and Community on the Margins of the American West (Oregon State University Press, 2020) and The End of a Global Pox: America and the Eradication of Smallpox in the Cold War Era (University of North Carolina Press, 2015). Bob is also the founder and director of Boise State’s Working History Center, which advocates for and demonstrates the vitality and relevance of history. Bob’s professional experience includes serving as the Executive Director of the Willamette Heritage Center (a regional history museum and site in Salem, Oregon), a postdoctoral fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University, and teaching positions at Western Oregon University and Willamette University.