Annie Gilbert Coleman is associate professor of history at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. Her book, Ski Style: Sport and Culture in the Rockies (2004), examines the rise of the Rocky Mountain ski industry from the perspectives of cultural and social history as well as environmental history and landscape studies. She continues to pursue her interest in the consumption of western landscapes with her current research on professional outdoor guides.

Lecture topics:

• Call of the Mild: The Nature, Leisure, and Construction of Skiing Landscapes
• The Unbearable Whiteness of Skiing (or other riffs on the history of the ski industry)
• Professional Guides: "Fine Athletic Figures" and Environmental Brokers
  

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