CHA Graduate Student Fellows

CHA Graduate Fellows 2026-2027

Greg LeDonne

Dissertation Completion Fellow • History

Greg is an attorney, historian, and advocate for public lands. He holds an MA in history from Boise State University, a JD from Harvard Law School, and a BA in history and political science from Yale College, and he is currently a PhD candidate in the History Department at the University of Colorado Boulder. Greg’s research interests center around the environmental and cultural history of the twentieth-century North American West. A recipient of the Emerging Scholar Award for the article “Rebranding Neoliberalism: Idaho’s Owyhee Ranchers Confront Rangeland Reform ’94” published in Montana The Magazine of Western History, his dissertation project explores the history of rewilding as both an idea and an environmental management practice. Greg’s research has also been featured in a chapter in The Missouri, America’s Longest River: A Cultural and Environmental History. His work has received financial support from the Center for Humanities & the Arts and the Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming, the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University, the Montana State University Library and the Ivan Doig Center for the Study of the Lands & Peoples of the North American West at Montana State University, and the Denver Public Library Special Collections and Archives Department.

 

 

 

 

Sanggay Tashi

Sanggay Tashi is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research examines social and political transformations in indigenous Tibetan communities in eastern Tibet, China, with broader interests in state-making, indigeneity, development, digital infrastructures, energy transition, and environmental changes. His work pays particular attention to licensing and bureaucratic regimes, the digitalization of infrastructure and social life, solar and wind energy farms, and indigenous approaches to modernization. Through ethnographic fieldwork, his research highlights how local communities experience and navigate these transformations through culturally grounded knowledge, practices, and skills.

Anna Wynfield

Dissertation Fellow • Anthropology

Anna’s dissertation, “Conceiving Labor: An Ethnography of Midwifery Practice and Prenatal Care after COVID-19,” is based on multi-year ethnographic research with certified nurse-midwives and pregnant people in the U.S. Her work aims to explore the individual practices people engage in to bridge systemic inequities and adapt care within expanding fissures of the healthcare system. In her dissertation, she draws on theoretical perspectives from feminist anthropology and political economy to argue that sustaining personalized care requires gendered and stratified forms of labor that unfold within and beyond clinical spaces. In doing so, she centers the experiences of the (female) providers and pregnant people most responsible for reconciling the inequities they experience most acutely. Her research ultimately highlights how historically driven practices are (re)configured in the aftermath of the pandemic, tracing the ways that care emerges within late-stage capitalist and post-Roe landscapes of reproductive responsibility.