Neall Pogue

Neall Pogue is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. He specializes in environmental history.

Pogue’s interest and compassion for the natural world inspired him to explore why some groups espouse opposition towards environmental protection efforts. Consequently, although he is not a community insider, his first history scholarly project investigated why white conservative evangelicals who make up the politically important religious right movement today stand against eco-friendly efforts. This research was published as a monograph by Cornell University Press in 2022 titled The Nature of the Religious Right: The Struggle Between Conservative Evangelicals and the Environmental Movement.

Praise

Stellar. Pogue draws on an impressive range of archival and secondary sources to advance a highly nuanced and provocative argument about the transformation of evangelical/fundamentalist beliefs about environment and earth care between the early 1970s and present day.”
Darren Dochuk, University of Notre Dame, author of Anointed with Oil

The account is well written, carefully argued, and based on meticulous historical scholarship.
Susannah Crockford, University of Exeter featured in the Journal of Religion

The Nature of the Religious Right will cause some deep soul searching and personal reflection among all readers. It is exactly what is needed right now to help repair the schism between pro- and anti-environmentalists and to begin to solve our ecological problems.
David F. Garner, Spectrum Magazine

Teaching Subjects

Environmental history/studies
Religion and ecology/nature
Early American history
Modern American history
Religion and politics
American popular culture
Early and modern world history
History methodologies: Theory, research, writing and intellectual inquiry.