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Phil Roberts
Associate Professor
Wyoming History, American West, Public History, Legal History, Environmental History
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1990
J. D., University of Wyoming, 1977
philr@uwyo.edu • 766-5311 • Room 356
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Phil Roberts is associate professor of history, University of Wyoming, where he has been on the faculty since 1990.
He is a native of Lusk, Niobrara County, Wyoming, and lived during his early years on a ranch homesteaded by his grandfather. He attended public schools in Lusk, Torrington, Thermopolis, Worland, and numerous other towns around the West. He graduated from Cody (Wyo.) High School in 1966. After 1 ½ years at Northwest College, Powell, he entered the University of Wyoming. He served in the U. S. Marine Corps from 1969-1972 and, the next year, returned to Wyoming to complete his undergraduate degree at the University of Wyoming. After editing newspapers in California and Arizona, he again returned to Wyoming for a law degree.
A 1977 graduate of the University of Wyoming College of Law, he practiced law, worked in public history, owned a publishing company, and published a city magazine in Cheyenne. In the middle 1980s, he entered the University of Washington, Seattle, for a doctorate in history. He was granted the Ph.D. in history in 1990, and later that year, he was appointed to the faculty at the University of Wyoming where he has taught the history of Wyoming and the West, legal, public and environmental history.
At three different times in his career, he has served as editor of Annals of Wyoming. His dissertation on taxation in Washington Territory (State) was published by the University of Washington Press. His manuscript on the history of Shoshone Caverns National Monument and federal policies involved with monument elimination will be published later this year. He received a UW Arts and Sciences research grant for the project. He is co-author (with his two brothers) of Wyoming Almanac, now in its fifth edition. His edited textbook, Readings in Wyoming History, is in it's fourth edition.
Other history articles include: "History of the Wyoming Sales Tax," Wyoming Law Review, 2004; "Wyoming's Pioneers of Prohibition," Wyoming Law Review, Summer, 2001; "Scotts Bluff National Monument and the Coming of Television to the Nebraska Panhandle," Nebraska History, Spring, 1996; and "The Prohibition Agency's First Case," Western Legal History, Summer/Fall, 1998.
He is currently at work on a comparative analysis of oil development in the American West and the Arab Middle East. In recent years, he conducted research and served as a visiting lecturer at two universities in the Middle East. In 2004-2005, he served as a legal consultant for a project on legal education under the sponsorship of the ABA-CEELI in Baku, Azerbaijan.
He is a member of several professional and civic organizations including: the Wyoming State Bar (admitted to practice in 1977); the Wyoming State Historical Society; Western History Association; American Historical Association; Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society; Tenth Judicial Circuit Historical Society; and the Pacific Northwest Historians' Guild.
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