Professor of History

Ph.D., University of Oregon

M.A., University of Oregon

B.A., Seattle University

afswh1@uaa.alaska.edu

 

Prof. Stephen Haycox is an American cultural historian at the University of Alaska Anchorage; he specializes in the relationship of Alaska to the history of the American west. His graduate degrees are from the University of Oregon. He has published widely on Alaska Native history. His two most recent books are Frigid Embrace: Politics, Economics and Environment in Alaska, and Alaska: An American Colony. He is the recipient of an Alaska Governor’s Humanities Award (2003), and the University of Alaska Edith R. Bullock Prize for Excellence (2002), and was named Alaskan Historian of the Year (Alaska Historical Society) in 2003. He teaches Alaska history, history of the American West and American environmental history, and writes a bi-weekly opinion column for the Anchorage Daily News.

 

	Frigid Embrace
	"Since the arrival of white settlers, Alaska has been dependent on the development of successive natural resources - fur, then gold, salmon copper timber and now oil.  In Frigid Embrace, Stephen Haycox explores how the drive to extract natural resources has shaped  Alaskans' understanding of nature and their relationships with the region's Native people."  (Back cover)

An Alaska Anthology

"Alaska, with its Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut heritage, its century of Russian colonization, its peoples' formidable struggles to wrest a living (or a fortune) from the North's isolated and harsh environment, and its relatively recent achievement of statehood, has long captured the popular imagination. In An Alaska Anthology, twenty-five contemporary scholars explore the region's pivotal events, significant themes, and major players, Native, Russian, Canadian and American." (Back cover)

Alaska, an American Colony

Alaska, an American Colony focuses on Russian America and American Alaska, bringing the story of Alaska up to the present and exploring the continuing impact of Alaska Native claims settlement, the trans-Alaska pipeline, and the Alaska lands act. In contrast to the stereotype of Alaska as a place where rugged individualists triumph over the harsh environment, distinguished historian Stephen Haycox offers a less romantic, more complex history that emphasizes the broader national and international contexts of Alaska’s past and the similarities between Alaska and the American West. Covering cultural, political, economic, and environmental history, the book also includes an overview of the region’s geography and the anthropology of Alaska’s Native peoples. (Inside cover)