Participants

Robert Bailey is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Oklahoma, where he has affiliate faculty status in Environmental Studies and in Film and Media Studies. Bailey researches and teaches the history, criticism, and theory of modern and contemporary art as well as the historiography and methodology of art history. He is the author of Art & Language International: Conceptual Art between Art Worlds (Duke University Press, 2016),...

Dan Beachy-Quick is a poet, essayist, and translator, whose most recent collection, Variation on Dawn and Dusk , was long-listed for the National Book Award in Poetry. His work has been supported by the Monfort, Lannan, and Guggenheim Foundations, and he teaches at Colorado State University, where he is a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar.

Clint Carroll is an Associate Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, he works at the intersections of Indigenous studies, anthropology, and political ecology, with an emphasis on Cherokee environmental governance and land-based resurgence. Currently, he is working on a five-year, NSF-funded integrated education and community-based research project that investigates Cherokee access...

Brianne Cohen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she teaches contemporary art history and visual culture. She is co-editor of the book The Photofilmic: Entangled Images in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture (Leuven University Press and Cornell University Press, 2016), arising from a 3-year interdisciplinary research project at the Université Catholique de Louvain and Lieven Gevaert Centre...

Andrew Cowell´s research is on linguistic anthropology and language documentation, as well as language maintenance and revitalization. He works in the areas of Native America and Polynesia. One of his areas of focus has been ethnogeography, which includes not only placenames and landscape, but also the ethnic components of botany, zoology, astronomy, and metereology. He has written an ethnography of language shift among the Northern Arapaho, and also grammars, anthologies,...

Erin Espelie is a filmmaker whose works have shown at the New York Film Festival, the British Film Institute, the Whitechapel Gallery, Anthology Film Archive, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and more. Her writing has appeared in SciArt Magazine, Labocine , The Brooklyn Rail , High Country News, and Natural History magazine. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies & the Moving Image Arts...

Bonnie Etherington earned her PhD in English from Northwestern University, where she was also a Presidential Fellow. She is at work on a book manuscript entitled One Salt Water: Writing the Pacific Ocean in Contemporary Indigenous Protest Literatures , and her scholarly work is forthcoming in The Contemporary Pacific , and recently published in New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific (Routledge, 2019). Her first novel, The Earth Cries...

Erika Osborne received her BFA from the University of Utah and her MFA from the University of New Mexico. Erika’s artwork deals with cultural connections to place and environment. She has exhibited extensively with over ten solo exhibitions and 80 group exhibitions in recent years - including shows at the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Nevada Museum of Art and the Chautauqua Institute. She is currently represented by Robischon Gallery...

Lori Peek is director of the Natural Hazards Center and professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder. She studies vulnerable populations in disaster and is author of Behind the Backlash: Muslim Americans after 9/11 , co-editor of Displaced: Life in the Katrina Diaspora , and co-author of Children of Katrina . Peek also helped develop and write school safety guidance for the nation, which resulted...

Pezzullo serves as a founding Co-Director of the Just Transition Collaborative , which engages in inclusive partnerships, projects, and policy research to advance climate justice in the transition from a carbon-based extractive economy to a sustainable, living culture. She also is a co-director of Inside the Greenhouse , which fosters creative climate communication for decision-makers, youth, and frontline communities. Pezzullo authored the highly-regarded book, Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Travel, Pollution,...

Jen Shannon is a Curator and Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History where she teaches cultural anthropology and museum studies. She is the author of Our Lives: Collaboration, Native Voice, and the Making of the National Museum of the American Indian (2014), co-host of SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human, and a co-producer of NAGPRA Comics .

Paul Sutter, Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at the University of Colorado Boulder, is the author of Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement (2002) and Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies: Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South (2015) . He has published widely on the American wilderness movement, the environmental history of the U.S. South, U.S. imperial environmental...