Past Projects and Theses - Environmental Humanities Graduate Program

Ecotage!: A Game of Climate Uncertainty (Rune Davino-Collins, M.S.)
COAST Card: An Evaluation Case Study for International and Transdisciplinary Socio-Environmental Collaboration (Pheng Lor/Pheej Lauj, M.S.)
Mad Mud and Strange Survival: a Meeting in the Undefined (Esther Mathieu, M.S.)
The Nature of Inclusion: Exploring Nature-Based Structured Experiences for Black Youth and Their Families (Sydney Murray, M.A.)
In the Middle, at the Margins: Resilience, Novelty and Futurity at Lee Kay Conservation Area (Maggie Scholle, M.S.)

Gazing at Ecological Precarity: a Fugitive Map of Fire Island, New York (Amelia Carter, M.S.)
Solidarity across Time and Place: A Call for Collective Bargaining Rights to Sustain Conservation Workers, Long-term (Jaimie Choi, M.S.)
Life over Lithium: Mining, Power and Just Transition at Thacker Pass /Peehee Mu'huh (Amelia Diehl, M.S.)
The Role of Gardens in Northern New Mexican Environmental Justice: Food, Climate and Community (Jazmine Lopez, M.A.)
Building a Permeable Landscape: Community-based Collaboration in Montana's Centennial Valley (Margaret McGuirk, M.S.)
The River and the Reeds: Carrizo Cane and the Politics of Migration on the Rio Grande (Maddie Melton, M.S.)
Infrastructure versus Conservation: Political and Epistemological controversies of Lake Powell Pipeline (Juan Camilo Perdomo Marin, M.A.)
Project ECO SLC: Using Digital Environmental Education to Promote Community Connection and Resilience (Tessa Scheuer, M.A.)
Digital Ecologies of Access: Archiving Art-Based Narratives at the Intersection of Disability and the Environment in Salt Lake City, Utah (Natalie Slater, M.S.)
Indigenizing the Junior Ranger Booklet at Antelope Island State Park in Collaboration with the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation (Fiona Summers, M.S.)

Extraction: Stories of Place, Displacement and Memory from Lark, Utah (Ashleigh Albrechtsen, M.A.)
Praxis: Toward a Critical Climate Justice Pedagogy (Maria Archibald, M.A.)
Home on the Rattlesnake's Range (Amber Aumiller, M.S.)
Landscapes of Transformation: Narratives from the Colorado Trail (Jenna Fisher, M.A.)
Notes from the Landscape of Grief (Maya Kobe-Rundio, M.A.)
Writing with Trees: Plants as Literary Characters & Epistemologies for Children (Sam Nelson, M.A.)
Forgetting and Remembering Native Land Use and History in the Wasatch Back (Doug Sam, M.A.)
Developing Indigenous History and Culture Programming at Antelope Island State Park (Hannah Taub, M.A.)

CRUDE: Cultivating Pleasure in (spite of) Petroleum Culture: Commentary to Craftivism from the PT of Extraction to the PT of Emission/Ejaculation (Madeleine Bavley, M.A.)
Bayou City Underwater: Disability, Houston and Hurricane Harvey (Gardiner Brown, M.S.)
Restoring Ea: Loko I'a and Indigenous Resurgence (McKenna Granato, M.S.)
Spectral Saline: Essays from a Vanishing Great Salt Lake (Morgan Lawrence, M.S.)
Albion Basin: A Case Study for Ecological Restoration and Resilience in the Anthropocene (Taylor Litwin, M.S.)
Environmental Justice and the People of the Pacific (Makaio Kimbrough, M.S.)
Joy like a gushing spring: Women and Urban Waterways in Pak T'ae-Won's 'Scenes from Ch'onggye Stream' (Anne Whitehouse, M.A.)

Non human agency and animacy in Mario de Andrade's Macunaima and Ferreira de Castro's A Selva (Nic Apodaca, M.A.)
Fanning the flames: Weaving Carbon Narratives of the Past for an Understanding of Modern Wildfires (Katherine Bui, M.S.)
Utopian Poets and Cyberpunk Anarchists: The Cultural Commons and The Multitude in Latin American Science Fiction (Davey Cox, M.A.)
Ecologies of Thirst: Water, Climate & Migration in Arizona's Borderlands (Taylor Cunningham, M.A.)
On the Seas as in Heaven: Reimagining Christian Ethics for Resilience-Based Marine Fisheries (Lauren Hawkes, M.A.)
Connection Prayer: Tracing One Deer’s Path Across a Fragmented Landscape (Ben Kilbourne, M.S.)
The Wasatch Oasis: A Deep Environmental History (Jacob Northcutt, M.A.)
Craft Ecologies: Exploring Labor, Land Ethic, and Local Community in the Twenty-first Century (Michelle Wentling, M.A.)

Water you doing: finding place in the digital (Tiana Birrell, M.S.)
Goodbye to all that: haunted subjects and environmental affect in Wallace Stegner and Joan Didion (Zak Breckenridge, M.A.)
Ecocentric environmental education: using plants to connect & engage kids with local ecosystems through an interdisciplinary curriculum (Laura George, M.S.)
Expropriation by degradation: cumulative environmental inequalities in northern Alberta from the fur trade to the tar sands (Keith Scott, M.A.)
The Seismic West: tectonic epistemologies in the colonial and nuclear anthropocene (Hannah Smay, M.S.)
Rapture Rupture: poems for apocalypse & anthropocene (Heather Tourgee, M.A.)
People, plants and place: finding empowerment through community-building on the Green Farm Team (Cleo Warner, M.S.)

All at Sea: Rethinking our policial and ethical responsibility to the glocal oceans (Bianca Greeff, M.S.)
Layers Exposed: A Journey Through the Frontlines of Climate Injustice on the Colorado Plateau (J. Brooke Larsen, M.A.)
Breathe: Protest Art, Social Movements and Air Quality (Casey Clifford, M.A.)
The Mountain Guides: Climbing's Connection to Environmental Advocacy (Daniel Hohl, M.S.)
The Migration Bomb: How Climate Change Will Remap Our World (Maya Silver, M.A.)
Blue Mar: A Novel (Francesca Varela, M.A.)
EcoPoetics: The Warmest Zero (Mahreen "Jai" Hamid Bashir, M.A.)

37 Records: Mapping a City Creek Soundscape (Sarah Dyer, M.S.)
Shift: Broadening Environmental Priorities in the Anthropocene (Kathleen Metcalf, M.S.)
Whose Streets? The Contestation of Public Space: Main Street, Salt Lake City (Kailey Luzbetak, M.S.)
See the Forest for the Trees: Examining Best Practice Collaboration in Forest Management Planning Processes (Kailey Kornhauser, M.S.)
Bird's-Eye View: Ecocentral Language and Environmental Education Curriculum (Joshua Fulton, M.S.)
The Silvertip Womb (Josh Wennergren, M.S.)
Shaped by Snow: The Landscapes of our Relationships and the Threats of Climate Change (Ayja Bounous, M.A.)

North with You: iPhone Book-App (Sarah Brey, M.S.)
"Stand ye in holy places": Place and Identity in Contemporary Mormon Meetinghouses (Ruedigar Matthes, M.S.)
From the Bush: Feminist Poetics of the Northern Interior (Nicole Brittany Cox, M.S.)
A Wasatch Voice: History, Future and Land Ethic in the Wasatch Mountains (Jack Stauss, M.S.)
Death Eyes (Hannah McLimans, M.S.)
All of Us Beasts (Claire Taylor, M.S.)
Encountering the More-Than-Human in Urban Fantasy Literature (Carissa M. Beckwith, M.A.)
Perceptions of Human Overpopulation: Disavowal and Dysfunction in Salt Lake City (Bryna K. Gallagher, M.S.)

An Elegy on Species Obituaries (Stinne Storm Folving, M.S.)
Toward Abundance: An Ecological Design to Enhance the Resilience of Shambow Creek and the Taft-Nicholson Center (Shaun Daniel, M.S.)
"And a Soul in Ev'ry Stone": The Ludic Natures of Pale Fire and Gravity's Rainbow (Robert "Bobby" Kennedy, M.A.)
A Narrative Atlas of the Anthropocene (Patrick Smyth, M.S.)
Taking the Waters: Baptism, Business and Place on Salt Lake City's Beck Street (Michael McLane, M.S.)
21 Rivers (Ian Peisner, M.S.)
Three Georgia Winters: Writing and Lighting Fire (Hilary Smith, M.A.)
Field Guide to Other: A Nonfiction Collection (Anna Elza Brady, M.S.)
Mountains That Never Rest (Alisha Anderson, M.S.)
The Range of Light & Fast (Alex Ertaud, M.A.)

Moab & the Monument (Resford Rouzer, M.S.)
The Psychology of Salt: A Psychocartography of the State of Utah (Maggie Hippman, M.A.)
The Center of It: Coming Alive in a Time of Crisis (Laura Schmidt, M.S.)

Voices Downwind: Oral Histories from Utahns Exposed to Nuclear Testing (Robert DeBirk, M.A.)
Pulling Up Beets: An Exploration of Local Food in Southwest Montana (Kelsey Sather, M.A.)
Milk Lines: Tainted Headwaters of Heritage (Julia Pace, M.A.)
Mezzanine, or, Life at the Equator (Jesse Don Peterson, M.S.)
Feather Beard: Steps from the Heart of a Solitary Walker (Frank Carter, M.S.)
Look-out: An Exploration of Fire, Rot, War & Service (Erin Halcomb, M.A.)
The Salted Earth: Queer Materialism and Ecological Metaphor (Eric Robertson, M.A.)
Salt Lake Inverted: An Ecological Genealogy of Home (Emerson Andrews, M.S.)
Nightscape: A Pilgrimage into Darkness (Annie Gilliland, M.S.)
Exploring the Edge: Searching for Wilderness in Desolation and Gray Canyons (Alison Holland, M.S.)

Green River, Black Rock: Running Rivers and Mining Oil in Utah's Uintah Basin (Robin Rothfeder, M.S.)
Confluence: Endangered Fish, People and Utah's Green River (Nick Schou, M.S.)
The MX Moment: Exploring Cold War History and Democratic Future of Nuclear West (James Kichas, M.S.)
Where Dry Rivers Meet: A Palimpsest of the Pahvant Valley, Black Rock and Sevier Deserts (Dylan Mace, M.S.)
Hidden Beauty: A Portrait of the Turkey Vulture (Dianne Van Dien, M.S.)
The Kid Loses to Domination: History, Domination and Subjecthood in Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion(David M. Hoza, M.S.)
The Colorado River Beyond Resource: Finding Habit, Home and Restoration Through Generations Moving Downstream (Ben Reeder, M.A.)

Plugging Into Nature: A Radio Journey to Source My Electricity (Ross Chambless, M.A.)
Double Black Diamond: The Hard Truth About Sustainable Actions in the Ski Industry (Meaghan McKasy, M.S.)
New Mythologies: Creating Family and Home in a Changing World (Lindsy Floyd, M.S.)
The Writer's Dilemma: Telling Stories in the Age of Information Overload (Katharine "Katie" Plumb, M.S.)
A Guide to the E2 Business Program (Jack Lasley, M.S.)
Cloud Shadows (Diane Leslie Fouts, M.A.)
Home Landscapes: Tradition, Identity and Environments (Catherine Ashton, M.A.)
Touch: Making Contact With Climate Change (Benjamin Paul Burke Cromwell, M.A.)
Memoryscapes: American Art and the Tension of Time (Andrew Ross, M.A.)
At the Great Salt Lake: Place-Based Gallery Programming at the Natural History Museum of Utah (Andrea Nelson, M.A.)
The Landscape of Learning: Place-Based Education in Utah (Alex Porpora, M.S.)

New Directions for (Cosmopolitan) Bioregionalism (Nicholas Tyson Webster, M.S.)
The Role of Narratives in the Human Relationship to the Natural World (Lilly Arlette Jensen, M.A.)
Sheep-Work: Food Empires and Pastoral Resistance in the Intermountain West (Katy Savage, M.A.)
Green Consumerism: Exploring the Conundrum of Consuming ‘Green’ (Drew vonLintel, M.S.)
Crafting Principles for Sustainable Development: Negotiations in the Drafting of the Earth Charter and the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development (Brandon Hollingshead, M.S.)

Stories of Business and Place: The Organizations of Salt Lake City's E2 Program (Shannon Lyon Cornelius, M.S.)
A Land of Milk & Honey: Family, Food & Faith in Utah (Carrol Firmage, M.S.)

The Nature of the Beasts (Paul Grindrod, M.S.)
The Next Generation Project: Modern Environmentalism, Grassroots Leadership & the Emergence of Great West Institute (Christopher Peterson, M.S.)
Wordly Atonement: Neo-Agrarianism and Marriage to Place in the Works of Wendell Berry (Bryan Wallis, M.A.)
Interface: Connecting the Work of Gregory Bateson, Deleuze and Guattari, and Alain Badiou (Adele Haverty Bealer, M.A.)

Smeared Soot and Black Blood: Reintroducing the Brown Bear to the Pyrenees and Its Festivals (Patrick D. Mabey, M.A.)
The Family Waters (Leigh A. Bernacchi, M.S.)

To get an idea of the breadth of subject matter our students pursue, have a look at their final projects and theses. Contact cory.pike @ utah.edu to inquire.