Fellows

The following individuals have been selected to participate as Mellon Fellows for our Summer Workshop as well as our Skills Repurposing Weekends. We will continue to recruit on an annual basis for openings that fulfill the guidelines of this three-year grant.

Skills Repurposing Fellows

March 2023

Reconstructing Indian Territory: Federal vs. Native Power and the Expansion of American Sovereignty, 1861-1907

September 2022

Interpreting the Transnational Material Culture of the 19th Century

Spring 2023

Aerial Enclosures: From Commons to Conflict in the American West

November 2022

Miracle Miles: From Roadbuilding to American Highway Engineering, 1893-1933

Spring 2023

Californio Local Liberalism: The Lasting Impact of Mexican Ideologies in California, 1848-1890
 

December 2022

In the Land of Milk, Honey, and Hollywood! Religion and Black Urban Life in Los Angeles, 1903-1953

April 2023

The Age of Encampment: Race, Migration, Surveillance, and the Power of Spatial Scripts, 1933-1950

2023

Wild by Design the Technological Construction of Authenticity, Wilderness, and Nature in America’s National Parks, 1890-1945

Fall 2023

Borderline Unstainable: Urban Planning and Diplomacy at the Tijuana-San Diego Boundary, 1919-1999

Fall 2023

Parks to the People: The National Park Service and Social Change in the Long 1960s

Spring 2023

"Liderazgo con Buena Mano”:” Aida Barrera, Carrascolendas and the Intersection of Race and Gender"

September 2022

"Ocean Fever: Steam Power, Transpacific Trade, and American Colonization of Puget Sound"

TBD

"Right to Painless Death": The Fight for Humane Animal Slaughter in the Cold War United States

November 2022

“Sanitizing History: Environmental Cleanup and Historic Preservation in U.S. West Mining Communities”

January 2023

Narcomundi: How Narcotraficantes Gained Control of Northern Mexico and Beyond

April 2022

"Representation for Change: How Chicanas Transformed American Politics in the Twentieth Century"

April 2022

Undercurrents: Resistance and Survival in the Colorado River Borderlands

November 2021

The Earth Memory Compass: Diné Landscapes and Education in the Twentieth Century

October 2021

Coal Frontier: Corporate Power and the Making of the Powder River Basin, 1965-1985

February 2020

“God Willin’ and the Creek Don’t Rise”: Christianity and Nature in the American West

January 2020

“Trapped by Progress? Technological Innovation and Winter Security in the Northern Plains, 1854-1949”

December 2019

“Sinclair’s Dinoland: How Artists and Oilmen Made Midcentury America Mesozoic”

November 2019

“Black Leaders of Leisure in the Struggle for Freedom during the Jim Crow Era in the American West: The Implications of their Stories for Our Lives Today”

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I came away from my weekend in Boulder with a sense that there are many audiences outside of historians who were interested in what I studied

-Greg Atkins

Greg Atkins