Dr. Jack L. August

DR. JACK L. AUGUST, JR. serves as executive director of the Arizona Historical Foundation at Arizona State University, where he teaches graduate courses in water policy and management. He has taught at several institutions, including the University of Houston, the University of Northern British Columbia, and Northern Arizona University. He was a Pulitzer Prize nominee for his volume Vision in the Desert: Carl Hayden and Hydropolitics in the American Southwest (Fort Worth: TCU Press, 1999); coauthor with former Arizona Senator Dennis DeConcini of Senator Dennis Deconcini: From the Center of the Aisle (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006); and author of Dividing Western Waters: Mark Wilmer and Arizona v California (Fort Worth: TCU Press, 2007).