Research Interests: Political Ecology, Feminist Science and Technology Studies, Queer Studies, Settler-Colonial Studies, Critical Natural History, Museum Studies, Pacific Northwest.
I am studying as a political ecologist with concentrations in feminist science and technology studies and cultural and ethnic studies.
Specifically, I am working on research about the construction and contestation of "green environments" in Oregon.
Currently I am developing a project that examines representations of “Nature” in museums, national parks, and interpretive centers in the Pacific Northwest and Western U.S.
My research and writing intersects the fields of critical environmental history, political ecology, feminist and indigenous science and technology studies, settler colonial studies, and cultural geography.
Research Interests:
- Feminist evolutionary biology/behavioral ecology
- US settler colonialism in the Pacific Northwest
- Militarized landscapes
- Visuality and visual technologies
- Environmental(ist) politics and discourse.
My future research builds on my work in the Mid-Columbia River to investigate toxic sediments and the diverse knowledge and management practices that converge and contest one another around various socioenvironmental harms that sediments produce.
Research:
- Routing the Scenic: settler colonialist sense and environmental culture in the Columbia River Gorge I examine the historical legacy and quotidian production of U.S. settler colonial violence through scientific practices.
- STS, Environmental Justice, & Education.
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