Greg Gordon

Greg Gordon was born at the junction of Cherry Creek and the South Fork of the Platte river, a place also known as Denver, Colorado. He spent much of his adult life living along the Clark Fork and Dearborn rivers of Montana and now lives a short walk from the confluence of Latah Creek and the Spokane River. Rivers have obviously informed much of his identify, relationship to place and current research.

The genesis of his first book, Gringos in the Mist, was a canoe trip down the Yasuni River in Ecuador. His second book, Landscape of Desire, follows a group of college students on a three-week trip along the Dirty Devil River in Utah. And his current project is a book about urban rivers and rewilding.

Like the rivers he studies, Greg followed a rather circuitous route to his present position as Associate Professor of Environmental Studies. After completing his BA in English from the University of Colorado, Greg spent the next five years working as a seasonal park ranger in Utah, Alaska, and Washington. In 1989, he moved to Montana to attend graduate school and then spent the next 20 years leading field studies programs in Utah, Montana, Canada, Chile, and Costa Rica. During this time, he also traveled extensively throughout South America, Asia, and Africa. But his home base was a yurt in the backwoods of central Montana. In 2005, he returned to the University to earn a PhD in History and was fortunate enough to land a position at Gonzaga in 2011.