- Ph.D. in History, University of California-Berleley, May 2007.
Advisor: Yuri Slezkine
Transforming Nature: The Russian Forest and the Soviet State, 1900-1953, Ph.D. dissertation
- Master of Arts in Humanities, California State University, Dominguez Hills, 2000.
- Bachelor of Science in Wildlife Ecology, 1994
- Graduate Student Instructor/Reader, University of California, Berkeley, 2002-06
- Instructor, Cerro Coso Community College, 2001-06
- Song of the Forest: Russian Forestry and Stalin's Environmentalism, (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, October 2011.ISBN: 978-08-229-61659.
- "The Christian Environmental Ethic of the Russian Pomor," Ecozona: The European Journal of Literature, Culture and the Environment Vol. 2, No. 2 (Autumn 2011).
- "Stalin's Environmentalism," Russian Review Vol. 69, no. 1 (January 2010): 03-118.
- "The Great Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature," Environmental History Vol 15, no. 4 (October 2010): 1-31.
- "America Is Worth Saving, Cedric Belfrage, and Dreiser Looks at Russia," A Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia, ed. Keith Newlin (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003).
- Visiting Scholar, Harvard University (Davis Center for Russian Studies), Fall 2010
- National Science Foundation Working Group, Arkhangel'sk, Russia, Summer 2010
- George Breslauer Dissertation Fellowship, 2006
- Fulbright Fellowship, Moscow, Russia, 2005-2006
- FLAS Fellowship, 2002-2003
- University of Arizona Graduate College Fellowship, 2001
- Eighteen-month research trip in Moscow, Russia; work in the State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF), the Russian State Economic Archive (RGAE), the Moscow Oblast Regional Archive (TsGAMO), and the Archive of the Communist Party (RGASPI).
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- Fellow, Institute of History of Science and Technology, 2005-2006.
- American Society of Environmental Historians
- American Historical Association
- Alpha Zeta Agricultural Honors Society
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