Dr. Greg Atkins
Fields of Study
US History of Religion, Urban and Environmental History, late 19th – 20th Century US West, US and the World, and World History
Education
Ph.D., History, Washington State University, 2019
M.A., History, Oklahoma State University, 2005
B.A., History, Oklahoma Panhandle State University, 2003
Teaching Experience
Fort Hays State University (2021 –
Washington State University (2012 – 2018)
University of Idaho (2016 – 2018)
Colorado Technical University (2011)
Colorado Springs Early Colleges High School (2008-2011)
Oklahoma State University (2003 – 2005)
Courses Taught
US History before 1877
US History since 1877
World History since 1500
20th Century US History of Religion
World Cities: Urban History since 1800
Historical Methods
Publications
Co-authored with Kevin Amidon, “Online Education, Honors, and the Engaged University: Modeling Experiential Learning for Fully-Online Students at Fort Hays State University,” in Honors Online: Teaching, Learning, and Building Community Virtually in Honors Education, edited by Victoria Bryan. Lincoln, Nebraska: National Collegiate Honors Council, forthcoming.
“The Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce & the Modern Garrison City,” in Military Matters: Defense, Development, and Dissent in the Pikes Peak Region. Colorado Springs, CO: Pikes Peak Library District, 2022.
“Business Sense if not Souls: Boosters and Religion in Colorado Springs, 1871 - 1909,” Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive Era 17, no. 1 (January 2018): 77-97.
“Josiah Strong.” Reforming America: A Thematic Encyclopedia and Document Collection of the Progressive Era, ed. Jeffrey A. Johnson (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2017).
Review of William Wyckoff, How to Read the American West: A Field Guide, Weyerhaeuser Environmental Series (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014), in Pacific Northwest Quarterly 106, no. 2 (Spring 2016): 98-99.