View of the Mississippi River from Perot State Park

International Conference on Rivers and Civilization:
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Major River Basins


La Crosse, Wisconsin USA
June 25-28, 2006

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CONFERENCE SPEAKER

Color photograh of Mark CiocMark Cioc (University of California-Santa Cruz, USA):  Roundtable discussion Rivers in History.

Mark Cioc is Professor of History at the University of California-Santa Cruz. and Editor of the journal Environmental History. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of California-Berkeley in 1986 and prior to teaching at Santa Cruz, taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst from 1987-1989. His most recent publications include The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815-2000 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002) and a co-edited anthology How Green Were the Nazis? (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005). He is currently working on a book-length manuscript, The Game of Conservation: International Treaties to Protect the World's Migratory Animals, 1900-1948.