Eric W. Mogren
Associate Professor
Fields of Study: United States-20th Century, Agrarian Societies, Borderlands/Frontier, Environmental, Legal/Constitutional/Policy
E-mail: mogren@niu.edu
Phone: 815-753-6656
Office: Zulauf 712
Education: J.D., University of Colorado, 1985; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1995
Current Research: My current research explores bow hunting in American during the twentieth century. Historically, hunting shaped our national cultural identity, reinforced gender roles, and influenced environmental attitudes. In the early twentieth century, some sportsmen concluded that advances in firearms technology undermined the personal and national virtues traditionally associated with hunting. These hunters abandoned their firearms and embraced bow hunting, which they believed could recapture the personal virtue they felt they had lost to firearms hunting. Today, nearly twenty percent of hunters were bow hunters. I am investigating why bow hunting emerged as such a significant subset of hunting in America.
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