David Wrobel, who received his Ph.D. in 1991 from Ohio University, is widely regarded as one of the most promising young scholars working in the history of the American West. He has written Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory, and the Creation of the American West (University Press of Kansas, 2002) and The End of American Exceptionalism: Frontier Anxiety from the Old West to the New Deal (University Press of Kansas, 1993). He co-edited Many Wests: Place, Culture, and Regional Identity (University Press of Kansas, 1997), and Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West (University Press of Kansas, 2001). His latest book project is titled "Globalism, Exceptionalism, and Western American Travel Writing."

David Wrobel combines literary analysis and intellectual history with an appreciation of the ways that travel and tourism have always been important aspects of the Western regional experience. He has raised questions about regional identity and culture; the various ways that experience, memory, and memoir relate; and the continuing relevance of mythic ideas about America's frontier heritage. A Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Mr. Wrobel is also President of Phi Alpha Theta, the National History Honors Society, and is a member of the editorial board of the Pacific Historical Review.

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