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Worster has completed a biography on John Wesley Powell, the renowned explorer and geologist who lived in Bloomington-Normal after the Civil War. The forthcoming book will be published by Oxford University Press. John Wesley Powell and the Colorado River. Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas and was the 1980 recipient of Columbia University's Bancroft Prize in American history. As a leading figure in the emerging field of environmental history, his studies draw upon the intertwined disciplines of history, philosophy, economics, geography, biology, climatology, and others.