ABOUT
Michelle Follette Turk is a historian of occupational health and safety, and the state of Nevada. She examines work, hazards, and safety programs in the greater Las Vegas area from early building of the railroad through dam construction, chemical manufacturing during World War II, nuclear testing, and resort industry employment. She has authored a book as well as scholarly articles on health, safety, and labor, and is a lecturer on Las Vegas medical history and Hoover Dam labor history. Turk earned her doctorate in the history of the twentieth century American West with specialties in public history from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She served as a founding deputy director of Preserve Nevada, a statewide nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of Nevada’s cultural, historical, and archaeological heritage, and teaches history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Turk is the granddaughter of Kirk V. Cammack Jr., MD, the second board-certified surgeon in Nevada and co-founder of the Lion’s Burn Care Center at University Medical Center (UMC) in Las Vegas. She lives in Las Vegas with her husband and two children.
Michelle Follette Turk is a historian of occupational health and safety, and the state of Nevada. She examines work, hazards, and safety programs in the greater Las Vegas area from early building of the railroad through dam construction, chemical manufacturing during World War II, nuclear testing, and resort industry employment. She has authored a book as well as scholarly articles on health, safety, and labor, and is a lecturer on Las Vegas medical history and Hoover Dam labor history. Turk earned her doctorate in the history of the twentieth century American West with specialties in public history from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She served as a founding deputy director of Preserve Nevada, a statewide nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of Nevada’s cultural, historical, and archaeological heritage, and teaches history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Turk is the granddaughter of Kirk V. Cammack Jr., MD, the second board-certified surgeon in Nevada and co-founder of the Lion’s Burn Care Center at University Medical Center (UMC) in Las Vegas. She lives in Las Vegas with her husband and two children.
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