PHILIP V. SCARPINO

Professor of History; director of graduate Public History program. B.A. University of Montana 1971, M.A. University of Missouri 1975, Ph.D. 1983.

Teaching and research interests: public history, historic preservation, environmental history. Current research: An environmental history of the Great Lakes comparing the U.S. and Canadian perspectives.

Publications: Great River: An Environmental History of the Upper Mississippi, 1890-1940 (1985); Co-editor, Public History and the Environment (2004) and articles on public and environmental history. Consultant for several NEH-funded museum projects.

Recipient of numerous grants for public history projects: Indiana Historical Society, Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology, Indiana Humanities Council, and IU Center on Philanthropy. Service: President, National Council on Public History (1993-94); departmental Director of Public History (1986-95, 2006- ) and Associate Director of Public History (1995-2006).

Office: CA 532
Phone: (317) 274-5983
pscarpin@iupui.edu