Young is a historian of the 19th and 20th-century U.S. with interests in culture, the environment, public memory, and the American West. Her current work concerns the history of camping and sleeping outside and examines the shifting understandings of nature as public space. Future interests concern student learning, pedagogy, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History.
keywords
American cultural history, environment, medical humanities, public memory, popular culture, ethnicity, scholarship of teaching and learning, American West, outdoor recreation, homelessness
