Eric Olmanson studied geography and environmental history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After completing his PhD in 2000 he remained in Madison to serve as an institutional historian. Since 2008 he has worked on various research and writing projects and has been a lecturer at the UW-Madison. His first book, The Future City on the Inland Sea: A History of Imaginative Geographies of Lake Superior was published by Ohio University Press in 2007. It won the Great Lakes American Studies Association and Ohio University Press book award and was awarded the J. B. Jackson Prize by the Association of American Geographers. He recently completed “Promotion and Transformation of Landscapes along the CB&Q Railroad” for the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, soon to be released as a hypertextual essay. He is currently writing a book about the American Medical Center for Burma, 1945-1965.
