Nichelle Frank

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

Working book title: Dirty, Dark, and Dangerous: Environmental Cleanup and Historic Preservation in US West Mining Communities

Dr. Nichelle Frank is an Assistant Professor of U.S. History at Utah State University Eastern, studying the effects of the U.S. environmental and historic preservation movements on cultural landscapes in intermountain mining towns. She has worked with organizations such as the National Council on Public History, HistoriCorps, the Public and Environmental History Center, and the Applied History Initiative at CU-Boulder to bring a historical perspective to current affairs. As someone who is Colorado-born and bred, she loves any excuse to return to the Centennial State and explore its past and present.