Stephen Pyne

Faculty facts

First name

Stephen

Last name

Pyne

Academic title and academic unit

Emeritus Professor The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Web Directory link

https://search.asu.edu/profile/94191

Status

Emeritus

Award details

Distinguished memberships and honors

Fulbright U.S. Scholars 1991

American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows 2000 Historic listing, not current member Received while at ASU

Highly prestigious awards

MacArthur Foundation MacArthur Fellow 1988

National Humanities Center Fellowship 1979

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships for University Teachers 1981

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars 1988

American Academy of Arts and Sciences Academy Fellow 1995

National Humanities Center Fellowship 2002

Faculty spotlight

Spotlight title

MacArthur Fellow

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Bio summary

MacArthur Fellowship recipient Stephen Pyne has written 15 books on the history and management of wild land and rural fire, including big-screen surveys for the U.S., Canada, Australia and Europe.

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Bio

Pyne was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1988. An ASU Regents Professor in the School of Life Sciences in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Pyne has written more than 20 books on the history and management of wild land and rural fire, including big-screen surveys for the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Europe (including Russia). His most recent work is a multivolume fire history of the United States since 1960. He brings historical scholarship to the subject of humanity’s interaction with fire. He came to ASU from the University of Iowa in 1986. He received his BA from Stanford University, his MA and PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. In 1995 he received the Robert Kirsch Award, Los Angeles Times, for "a living author whose residence or focus has been in the West and whose career contributions merit body-of-work recognition. "Watch Professor Steve Pyne's TED talk | How fire shapes everything.