Douglas R. Littlefield, Ph.D.
Douglas R. Littlefield, Ph.D., has over twenty-seven years of
experience in forensic historical consultation and expert
witness services in support of litigation – including testimony,
depositions, affidavits, and/or reports in four United States Supreme Court original
jurisdiction lawsuits. The author of
Conflict on the Rio Grande: Water and the Law, 1879-1939
(University of Oklahoma Press, 2008), and multiple scholarly
articles on various historical environmental topics, as well as
the holder of the 2008 National Council on Public History’s Consultant Award,
Littlefield has provided professional services for a lengthy
list of clients, including state and local governments, law
firms, and private parties.
Education
Ph.D. in American History from University of California, Los
Angeles
Master’s Degree in American History from
University of Maryland, College Park
Bachelor’s Degree from Brown University
Selected Publications
Books
Conflict on the Rio Grande: Water and the Law, 1879-1939
(2008)
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The Spirit of Enterprise: A History of Pacific Enterprises, 1867-1989 (coauthor, 1990)
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Articles
- “Jesse W. Carter and California Water Law: Guns, Dynamite,
and Farmers: 1918-1939,” California Legal History (2009).
- “The History of the Rio Grande Compact of 1938,” in Catherine
T. Ortega Klett, ed., 44th Annual New Mexico Water Conference –
Proceedings – The Rio Grande Compact: It’s the Law (Las Cruces:
New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute, 2000).
- “The Forensic Historian: Clio in Court,” Western Historical
Quarterly (1994).
- “The Rio Grande Compact of 1929: A Truce in an Interstate
River Apportionment War,” Pacific Historical Review (1991).
- “Eighteenth-Century Plans to Clear the Potomac River:
Technology, Expertise, and Labor in a Developing Nation,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (1985).
- “The Potomac Company: A Misadventure in Financing an Early
American Internal Improvement Project,” Business History Review
(1984).
- “Water Rights During the California Gold Rush: Conflicts
over Economic Points of View,” Western Historical Quarterly (1983).
- “Maryland Sectionalism and the Development of the Potomac
Route to the West, 1768-1826,” Maryland Historian (1983).
- Numerous book reviews on the history of water rights, land use
issues, and environmental history.
Awards and Other Professional Experience Examples
- Recipient of the National Council on Public History’s
Consultant Award, 2008.
- Member, Board of Directors, California Supreme Court
Historical Society, 2007-present.
- Faculty lecturer for Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
International, Arizona Water Law Conference. Course: “Historians
and Water Rights – The Role of Historians in U.S. Supreme Court
Interstate Stream Litigation,” August 2006.
- 1999 Keynote Speaker at the New Mexico Water Resources
Institute’s 44th Annual New Mexico Water Conference; “The
History of the Rio Grande Compact of 1938.”
- Adjunct Professor, Department of History, California State University,
East Bay. Taught graduate seminar on environmental history and
courses on American history and California history, 1991 – 1995.
- Member of Board of Editors, Western Historical Quarterly,
1992-1994.
- Editorial Assistant, Pacific Historical Review, 1980-1984.
- Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland’s off-campus program.
Taught history of the American West and U.S.
History at the Pentagon, 1979.
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