Skills Repurposing Fellows
The following individuals have been selected to participate as Mellon Fellows for our three day Skills Repurposing Workshops.
April 2024
Greening a Copper City: Recreation, Reclamation, and Resilience in Butte, Montana, 1876-2022
March 2024
Liderazgo con Buena Mano”:” Aida Barrera, Carrascolendas and the Intersection of Race and Gender
February 2024
Wild by Design the Technological Construction of Authenticity, Wilderness, and Nature in America’s National Parks, 1890-1945
February 2024
The Age of Encampment: Race, Migration, Surveillance, and the Power of Spatial Scripts, 1933-1950
Fall 2023
Californio Local Liberalism: The Lasting Impact of Mexican Ideologies in California, 1848-1890
September 2023
Borderline Unstainable: Urban Planning and Diplomacy at the Tijuana-San Diego Boundary, 1919-1999
April 2023
In the Land of Milk, Honey, and Hollywood! Religion and Black Urban Life in Los Angeles, 1903-1953
April 2023
Aerial Enclosures: From Commons to Conflict in the American West
March 2023
Reconstructing Indian Territory: Federal vs. Native Power and the Expansion of American Sovereignty, 1861-1907
January 2023
Narcomundi: How Narcotraficantes Gained Control of Northern Mexico and Beyond
November 2022
Miracle Miles: From Roadbuilding to American Highway Engineering, 1893-1933
September 2022
Interpreting the Transnational Material Culture of the 19th Century
September 2022
"Ocean Fever: Steam Power, Transpacific Trade, and American Colonization of Puget Sound"
November 2022
“Sanitizing History: Environmental Cleanup and Historic Preservation in U.S. West Mining Communities”
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”
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
