Keith Edgerton, Ph.D.

Professor of History and Department Chair

 

KeithDr. Keith Edgerton is recognized as an excellent instructor and scholar who shares his expertise and passion for history by inspiring independent, disciplined and creative thinking among his students.

鈥淒r. Edgerton has served this campus for a generation,鈥� a colleague said. 鈥淗e has worked to cultivate in his students a love of history鈥nd has taken the world into his classroom through his scholarly research.鈥�

The many courses of which he has developed including 鈥淢aking Sense of the Sixties鈥� and 鈥淭he American West鈥� are now mainstays of the U.S. history curriculum. Also extremely popular is the 鈥淗istory of Vietnam鈥� a course that was designed and taught to prepare students for a study abroad experience in Vietnam.

He is recognized among his colleagues for thinking expansively and dynamically about learning and for engaging students in and out of the classroom. One colleague notes that Keith鈥檚 passion for teaching has inspired other faculty members in the History Department to re-examine their commitment to teaching.

His extraordinary list of professional service is a refection of his leadership, including serving as his department鈥檚 chair since 2012, an officer for the faculty union and as the Faculty Association鈥檚 president.

鈥淗e has worked hard to make teaching on this campus as fulfilling as possible,鈥� a colleague said.

Keith has also embraced a clear commitment to serving the community as a go-to resource for campus and community lectures and panels, an expert in Montana history, western Americana and environmental history. Keeping on top of the latest research and trends of his field, he has written two books and dozens of book reviews and articles. 

鈥淗e is a humanist scholar,鈥� his colleague noted. 鈥淗is scholarship is clearly in service to his teaching鈥攑erhaps the best kind of scholarship at a teaching institution like 顶级国产视频.鈥�