Donald Pisani

Donald J. Pisani retired this past spring after twenty years as the Merrick Chair in Western American History at the University of Oklahoma, thirteen years at Texas A&M University, and one year at San Diego State. Known as one of the foremost water policy historians of the American West and a devoted scholar of California history, Pisani holds the distinction of being the only person to have served as president of both the American Society for Environmental History (1997–1999) and the Agricultural History Society (2006–2007). Pisani's University of Oklahoma colleague Sterling Evans visited with him about his career in environmental history and his thoughts on the history and future of the field.