As part of the Sustainable Futures Speaker Series, Peter Alagona will present “40 Years of Endangered Species: Conflict and Conservation in California and Beyond.”

Peter Alagona is an associate professor of history, geography, and environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He earned his PhD at UCLA, and completed postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard and Stanford. He is the recipient of several awards, including a National Science Foundation CAREER grant and the Harold J. Plous Award for UCSB’s most outstanding junior faculty member. Alagona is the author of more than three-dozen publications on the histories of land use, natural resource management, environmental politics, and ecological science in California and the American West, including After the Grizzly: Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California (UC Press, 2013).

The Sustainable Futures Speaker Series is presented by the Environment & Community Graduate Program and the Schatz Energy Research Center.

The presentation will take place Thursday, September 11, at 5:30 p.m. in BSS 166.