HSMT Colloquium: “Making History and Telling Stories: Bernard de Colmont and the Lost Maya”

History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Coloquium Series

Richard Ivan Jobs (Rick) is Professor of Modern European History at Pacific University in Oregon, USA. His books include In the Land of the Lacandón: A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism with Steven Van Wolputte (MQUP, 2025), Backpack Ambassadors: How Youth Travel Integrated Europe (Chicago, 2017), Transnational Histories of Youth in the Twentieth Century with David Pomfret (Palgrave, 2015), and Riding the New Wave: Youth and Rejuvenation of France after the Second World War (Stanford, 2007). He is the recipient of numerous awards, honors, and fellowships in support of his research and publications. He researches and writes on 20thc French and European social and cultural history, young people and youth, travel and mobility, integration and nationalism, transnational and global, exploration and imperialism. He grew up in western Kentucky, went to college at Murray State University, got his doctorate from Rutgers University, and has lived in Portland, OR since 2001.