| Bonnie Johanna Gisel |
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- Environmental Historian, Cultural/Religious/American Historian (nineteenth century), Environmental Educator. John Muir scholar and author.
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- Academic degrees: Ph.D. / M. Phil Drew University 1998/1994; M.Div. Harvard University 1991; M.F.A. Rochester Institute of Technology 1972; B.F.A. Daemen College 1970. Has served as adjunct or visiting professor at University of the Pacific, Drew University, and Green Mountain College.
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- Curator LeConte
Memorial Lodge, Sierra Club, Yosemite National Park - 2002 -
present. In this capacity Bonnie created the following special programs:
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- Creator of John Muir Award, University of the Pacific, 2001, first awarded to Maymie B. Kimes.
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- Author:
- Nature's
Beloved Son: Rediscovering John Muir's Botanical Legacy wiith
images by Stephen J. Joseph (Berkeley, Heyday Books, 2008).
- Kindred & Related
Spirits: The Letters of John Muir and Jeanne C. Carr (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2001).
- Meeting John Muir's Family, Friends, and Adventures: Between the
Calypso borealis and the Araucaria imbricata: Introduction in John
Muir: Family, Friends, and Adventures, eds. Sally M. Miller
and Daryl Morrison (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press,
2003).
- Acceptance Speech for 2006 John Muir Conservation Award: Nature's
Universal Abounding Glory
- "A Divine Wilderness Ramble: Jeanne Carr, John Muir, Tuolumne Canyon, the Sources of the Merced and San Joaquin: 1873," in John Muir: Family, Friends, and Adventures, eds. Sally M. Miller and Daryl Morrison (University of New Mexico Press, 2003).
- "Spiritual Intimacy: John Muir and Jeanne C. Carr," in John Muir in Historical Perspective, ed. Sally M. Miller (New York: Peter Lang, 1999).
- "Go to the Mountains! Helen Hunt Jackson," John
Muir Newsletter (Fall 2002).
- "What Does Love Have To Do With It: Christian Propriety and Kindred Redemption," John Muir Newsletter 7 (Summer 1997).
- "Into the Sun: Jeanne C. Carr. A Woman's Experience in Nature and Wilderness in Nineteenth-Century America," Drew University, Ph.D. Dissertation, 1998.
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| Photograph of Bonnie Gisel by Harold Wood |
