David Rich Lewis papers, 1973-2017

Professor David Rich Lewis taught in USU's History Department from 1988 until retiring in 2017. Dr. Lewis earned his undergraduate degree from USU in 1979 before relocating to Canada to earn a master's degree at the University of Toronto in Medieval European History. He earned a second master's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983 and remained at Madison to complete his PhD in American History with an emphasis on Native American environmental issues in 1988.

Lewis's teaching ranged from undergraduate survey courses to graduate seminars. Lewis served on and chaired more than 90 student thesis committees during his USU career.

A widely published scholar of the American West, Lewis also devoted part of his time to editing the Western Historical Quarterly, first as assistant, then associate, co-editor, and, finally, editor from 2003 to 2017, the last year of the Quarterly's publication on campus.