Education

  • PhD, History, University of British Columbia / Dissertation defended, April 2023 / Degree conferred, November 2023
  • MA, History, Western Washington University / 2014
  • BA, History and Cultural Studies, The Evergreen State College / 2006

Research Interests

  • Environmental History
  • Native American and Indigenous Studies
  • American West
  • Nineteenth and Twentieth Century US
  • Science and Technology Studies

Awards

  • Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Pre-Doctoral Fellowship / 2018-2020
  • Killam-Donald N. Byers Memorial Prize / 2018
  • UBC Four Year Fellowship / 2016-2018

Courses taught

  • Adjunct Faculty – Spokane Falls Community College
    HIST 105 Historical Roots of Contemporary Issues
    HIST 137 US History II 1865-Present
  • Teaching Assistant – University of British Columbia
    HIST 237 History of the United States
    HIST 260 Science and Society in the Contemporary World
    HIST 106 Global Environmental History
    HIST 235 History of Canada
    HIST 325 Canada 1896-1945 Boom, Bust, and War
    HIST 432 International Relations of the Twentieth Century

Additional Training and Experience

  • Faculty Participant – Climate and Community Workshop, Spokane Falls Community College / May-June 2023
  • Research Assistant – Dr. Eagle Glassheim, “Revitalizing Mining Landscapes and Communities” / 2021-2022
  • Chair – History Graduate Student Association Burge Lecture Committee / 2018-2019

Conference Papers

  • “Volcanic Intracatastrophe: The 1980 Mt. St. Helens Eruption and the Interface of Human and Geologic Time,” American Society for Environmental History Conference, Eugene, Oregon, March 23-27, 2022.
  • “‘Prophets and Dreamers, Who Used to Work in Secret are Becoming More Bold’: Indigenous Futurities, Settler Colonialism, and Environmental Change in Nineteenth-Century North America,” AHA Pacific Coast Branch Conference, August 11-13, 2021. (Online)
  • “Settler Colonialism, Environmental Crisis, and Indigenous Prophecy on the Columbia Plateau, 1860-1890,” Pacific Northwest History Conference, October 20-23, 2020. (Online)
  • “Indigenous Prophecy and the Promise of Ecological Repair: Confronting Environmental Change in the Early Nineteenth-Century Ohio Valley,” American Society for Environmental History Conference, Ottawa, ON, Canada, March 25-29, 2020. (Cancelled due to COVID-19)
  • “Local Knowledge, Indigenous Geographies, and Settler Colonialism in Nineteenth Century Washington Territory,” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) Conference, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, June 13-15, 2013.
  • “Blockhouses as Domestic Spaces: Constructing Race and Nation in Nineteenth Century Washington Territory,” Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Whitworth University, Spokane, WA, April 13-14, 2012.
  • “Indigenous Leaders, American Expansion, and the Re-Negotiation of Power at the Chehalis River Treaty Council,” University of Alabama Graduate Student History Conference on Power and Struggle, Tuscaloosa, AL, March 2-3, 2012.

Publications

  • Review of The River that Made Seattle: A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish, by B.J. Cummings, Pacific Northwest Quarterly 112, No. 3 (Summer 2021).
  • Review of Laid Waste!: The Culture of Exploitation in Early America, by John Lauritz Larson, American Nineteenth Century History 21, Issue 2 (May 2020).
  • Review of Mudflat Dreaming: Waterfront Battles and the Squatters Who Fought Them in 1970s Vancouver, by Jean Walton, BC Studies 202 (June 2019).

Professional Associations

  • American Society for Environmental History (ASEH)
  • Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA)