Kim Jarvis
Professor
Phone Number: 402.826.6756Department: History
Office: CON208
Email: [email protected]
Primary Campus: Crete
Credentials: BA, MA, MS, PHD
About
Dr. Kim Jarvis, Professor of History, grew up in Connecticut. She earned a B.A. in History from the University of Connecticut and a MS in Counseling from Southern Connecticut State University. Dr. Jarvis spent four years working in college admissions in Connecticut, after which she earned a MA and a PhD in History from the University of New Hampshire. She has been at Doane since 2003 and teaches a range of courses in United States and world history in the History program and teaches LAR 101, Doane's first-year seminar course. She advises students in the History program as well as students earning teaching endorsements in History and Social Studies.
Between 2021 and 2024, Dr. Jarvis served as the Principal Investigator and Project Director for Doane's Council of Independent Colleges grant. This grant, "Humanities Research for the Public Good: Connecting Independent Colleges with Their Communities: 'The Flora of the Nebraska Tallgrass Prairie: Past and Present'" was in partnership with Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center (SCPAC) in Denton, NE. In April 2022, Doane and SCPAC offered a public presentation of Doane students' research that showcased unique historical materials from Doane's archives comparing the tallgrass prairie during the late nineteenth century to the tallgrass prairie of the early twenty-first century. In addition, the grant supported the digital preservation of the botanical watercolors and records of Mary Doane (1829-1894), an amateur botanist, the sister of Doane’s founder Thomas Doane (1821-1897). This grant was generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with supplemental funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Dr. Jarvis's research is in the field of American Environmental History. Her most recent book, From the Mountains to the Sea: Protecting Nature in Post-War New Hampshire (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020) examines three conservation campaigns in New Hampshire after World War II. Her first book, Franconia Notch and the Women Who Saved It (University of New Hampshire Press, 2007) focuses on the 1920s conservation campaign that created Franconia Notch State Park in New Hampshire's White Mountains. Dr. Jarvis's work on gender and the conservation movement is included in A Landscape History of New England (MIT Press, 2011) and in American Wilderness: A New History (Oxford University Press, 2007).
Dr. Jarvis has been awarded the Doane University Student Congress Outstanding Faculty Award and the Doane University Advisor of the Year. She has held the Ardis Butler James Endowed Chair for the Advancement of the Liberal and Fine Arts and was awarded the Zenon R. Hansen Leadership Award (now the Thomas Doane Outstanding Faculty Award). She has served as Chair of the History Department and the Social Sciences Division. She is a member of the American Society for Environmental History, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, the New Hampshire Historical Society, the Mountains-Plains Museums Association, and the Nebraska Museums Association.