Cheryl Lyon-Jenness

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Cheryl Lyon-Jenness

Dr. Cheryl Lyon-Jenness
Emeritus, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D., Western Michigan University (1998)
Nineteenth Century U.S.; Material Culture Studies; Environmental History

Office: (269) 387-5382
Email:

Location
4436 Friedmann Hall

Mailing Address
Department of History
Western Michigan University
1903 W Michigan Ave
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5334

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Teaching

I teach courses in 19th and 20th century United States History and in Women's History. I am also the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of History , and in that role, oversee student advising for history majors and minors and undergraduate curriculum issues.

Research

My current research interests focus on horticultural history with a particular emphasis on ornamental plants as material culture. My forthcoming book, For Shade and For Comfort: Democratizing Horticulture in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest (Purdue University Press) explores the mid-nineteenth-century boom in horticultural interest and analyzes its cultural significance. Currently, I am working on an edited volume of letters drawn from thousands written to Illinois nurseryman John Kennicott between 1855 and 1863.