Nancy Langston is Professor in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a joint appointment in the Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies. Her work focuses on the environmental history of health and ecology. She is past-president of the American Society for Environmental History, and current editor of  Environmental History, the world's leading scholarly journal in environmental history.

Langston has been the recipient of fellowships from the Marshall Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Her first book won the 1997 Forest History Society Prize for best book in forest and conservation history, and a recent article won the 2009 Leopold-Hidy Prize for best article in Environmental History. 

Her first book, Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares (University of Washington Press, 1995), examines the causes of the forest health crisis on western national forests. Her second book, Where Land and Water Meet (University of Washington Press, 2003) focuses on dilemmas over riparian management in the West. 

To contact Nancy Langston, email nelangst@wisc.edu