Writing

Please peruse below for a selection of published academic works, other pieces like blogs, and creative writing pieces.

Published

“What is a country without horses?” Robert Yellowtail and Horse Herd Restoration on the Crow Reservation, 1934-1944.

The article explores the important role played by Robert Yellowtail, leader of the Crow Nation and Agency Superintendent, in horse herd restoration on the Crow Reservation from 1934 to 1944. Topics discussed include a government-sponsored destruction of Crow horses between 1919 and 1930, the impact of the equine loss on the Crow people as farmers and ranchers, and the eventual revival of the Crow-horse connections.

Fall 2020, Montana, the Magazine of Western History. Please contact if unable to obtain a copy through ebscohost.

How Entrenched Is the Spatial Structure of Inequality in Cities?

Co-author, August, 2019, Annals of the American Association of Geographers.

Review of Wild by Nature

Wild by Nature: North American Animals Confront Colonization. By Andrea Smalley. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. ix + 324 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95 paper. For Great Plains Research, Volume 28, No. 2, Fall 2018.

Review of Climate Ghosts

Nancy Langston. Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in Anthropocene. Waltham, Massachusetts: Brandeis University Press, 2021. 208 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-68458-065-1. For H-Net Reviews.

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Other pieces

Spillover as Method: Contingency and Disease as Historical Methods

Reflection on history and disease historical methodology for Western History Association Graduate Student Caucus winter newsletter, December 2020.

Strange Disease: Living through a Pandemic as a Historian of Disease

Blog reflecting on living through a pandemic as a historian of disease, May, 2020, Erstwhile Blog.

From a rough start to Roughstock: The National Western’s storied beginning

Blog reviewing the origin of the National Western Stock Show, which is held in Denver every January. January, 2020, Erstwhile Blog.

Decolonize Your Scrolling 2.0: Indigenous Pop Culture Links

Blog that highlights a collection of Indigenous popular culture links, all of which feature history in some form or fashion. November 2019, Erstwhile Blog.