Colorado Press WomenPatty Limerick
Patricia "Patty" Limerick is the board chair and faculty director of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
As a professor of history and environmental studies, she teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses on the American West, including a team-taught course comparing the history of colonialism and imperialism in the American West, Africa and the Middle East, and a course, also team-taught, on the biological components of western American history.
Limerick has published many books and articles, including The Legacy of Conquest. She has written frequent columns and op-ed pieces for The New York Times, USA Today, the Denver Post, the Daily Camera, The Chronicle of Higher Education and the Rocky Mountain News.
She now serves on the Executive Board of the Organization of American Historians and the Nominating Committee of the American Historical Association.