Dr. Stephen Hausmann is an assistant professor of US history and has been at the University of St. Thomas since 2019. He teaches classes on US history since 1865, Native American History, history of the US West, environmental history and the history of medicine. His book manuscript, under contract with the University of Nebraska Press, is an environmental history of South Dakota's Black Hills and the 1972 Rapid City Flood. His manuscript focuses on the ongoing activism for Indigenous land rights and urban inequality in Rapid City, South Dakota. He is active in professional leadership and has served as both assistant director and currently as acting director for the American Society for Environmental History. He is actively engaged in public history work including consulting for public memory events and digital history projects such as podcasting. His writing has been published in the Washington Post, the Rapid City Journal, and the Western Historical Quarterly, among other outlets. When he's not teaching, Dr. Hausmann spends his time rooting for the Boston Red Sox, playing (and critiquing) any and all history-based video games, and exploring the lakes and rivers around the Twin Cities. Beginning in the summer of 2024, Dr. Hausmann will be a Mellon Humanities Fellow with the National Parks Service working at Mount Rushmore National Monument in South Dakota.
National Park Service Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2024-2025
Center for the American West Applied History Mellon Summer Workshop Fellowship, 2023
Western History Association Arrell M. Gibson Award for best article in Native American history, 2022
Library Company of Philadelphia/Historical Society of Pennsylvania Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, 2019
Newberry Library/American Society for Environmental History Fellowship, 2019
Consortium for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Research Travel Fellowship, 2018
Linda Hall Library Travel Fellowship, 2017
2016 Temple University Baron Award for Graduate Student Teaching