Jared Farmer


Jared Farmer is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in environmental history, landscape studies, and the North American West.

Biography

Jared Farmer earned his BA from Utah State University in 1996, his MA from the University of Montana in 1999, and his PhD from Stanford University in 2005.
From 2005 to 2007, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern California. In 2007, he joined the history faculty at Stony Brook University. In 2020, he moved to the University of Pennsylvania, where he is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History. In 2025, he became chair of the university's Department of History.

Awards and distinctions

Farmer's book On Zion's Mount won the 2009 Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians. His book Trees in Paradise won the 2015 Ray Allen Billington Prize from the Organization of American Historians. His book Elderflora won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History from the American Philosophical Society. In 2014, Farmer received the Hiett Prize in the Humanities from the Dallas Institute. In 2017 he was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the following year the American Academy in Berlin awarded him a Berlin Prize. Farmer delivered the 28th annual Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture in 2023.