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University of 91��Ƶ Fairbanks, Fairbanks AK.
Assistant Professor of History, and Arctic & Northern Studies August 2021-Present
Assistant Director, Arctic & Northern Studies July 2023-Present
Affiliate Faculty, 91��Ƶ Center for Energy and Power July 2023-Present
Affiliate Faculty, Climate Scholars Program July 2022-Present 

Term Assistant Professor of History and Northern Studies May, 2020-August 2021
Lecturer in History December 2019- May, 2020

Brandeis University, Waltham MA.
Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Year Fellow August 2019-May 2020
Rose and Irving Crown Fellow, Brandeis University August 2013-May 2019

Ohio University, Athens OH.
Contemporary History Institute Fellow August 2011-May 2013

2013-2020
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
History Ph.D.
Qualifying Examinations passed with Distinction, December, 2015.

2011-2013
Ohio University, Athens, OH.
History M.A. with Distinction, Contemporary History Institute graduate.

2005-2008
University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
History B.A. with Honors, Minor in Astronomy

• 2024. (Forthcoming) “A Brief History of 91��Ƶn Electrification, 1893-2023” 2 Peter Asmus, ed. 91��Ƶ’s Energy Innovators: How Communities are Responding to the Climate Crisis. Fairbanks AK: University of 91��Ƶ Press.
• 2024. “Atomic Currents: The U.S. Military & Nuclear Energy in the 91��Ƶn Pacific”, in An American Lake? The United States, War and Environment in the Recent Pacific World. Ed. Beth Baily, Andrew Isenberg, Paul Landsberg. Lawrence KS: University of Kansas Press.
• 2023. “”, Journal of Energy History/Revue d'Histoire de l'Énergie [Online].
• 2023. “Petroleum Development and the State in Arctic North America, 1919-1977”. Cambridge History of the Polar Regions. Ed. Adrian Howkins and Peder Roberts. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.
• 2021. “” in The Greater Plains: Rethinking a Region’s Environmental Histories. Ed. Brian Frehner and Kathleen Brosnan. Lincoln NE: University of Nebraska Press. National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project.
• 2017. “The Countercultural Roots of Green Consumerism,” in . Ed. Louis Hyman and Joseph Tohill. Ithaca, NY: ILR/ Cornell University Press.

• 2024. (Forthcoming). “91��Ƶ’s Spine Road: Access, Equity and Safety on the Dalton Highway, 1974-2024” 2024. Review of John M. Findlay, The Mobilized West: 1940-2000. Published in 91��Ƶ History.
• 2024. “Electrifying 91��Ƶ’s Railbelt: A Generation and Transmission History, 1904-2024”, 91��Ƶ Center for Energy and Power (ACEP) Technical Paper.
• 2022. “”, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). December. Quoted in and .
• 2017. “”, Yale Environment 360. 16th November. Quoted in , November 24th and the , November 26th.
• 2017. “”, part of mini-series “Hope and Environmental History”, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). 7 June.
• 2017. “”, Part of Seeds: New Research in Environmental History series for the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE).
• 2015. Committee Report, Lead Co-Author. “Final Report and Recommendations.” Brandeis’ Exploratory Committee on Fossil Fuel Divestment.
• 2013. “” Review of Lewis Perry’s Civil Disobedience: An American Tradition (Yale University Press, 2013), in Waging Nonviolence.

• 2018-2019 Dissertation Year Fellowship, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
• 2015, March University Prize Instructorship, Brandeis University
• 2014-2015 Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award, Brandeis University
• 2014, 2016, 2018 Brandeis Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (BOLLI) Lectureship
• 2013-2018 Rose and Irving Crown Fellowship, Brandeis University
• 2011-2013 Contemporary History Institute Fellowship, Ohio University
• 2008, April Phi Beta Kappa
• 2008, May Senior Marshal, University of Maryland Graduation
• 2004, November Eagle Scout, Troop 674, Cincinnati, Ohio

• 2024, April Yale Agrarian Studies Colloquium Travel Grant
• 2023, June 91��Ƶ Center for Energy and Power Electrification Research Grant
• 2023 & 2024, January United Academics (UNAC) Faculty Development Travel Award
• 2022, December “Petrocultures” Conference Travel Grant, Göteborg, Sweden
• 2021, September Center for Safety Equity in Transportation (CSET) Research Grant P.I.; Co-P.I. Dr. Nathan Belz; “Access, Equity, and Safety in Rural Road Development: Historical Evidence from the Dalton Highway”
• 2021, October “US, War, & the Environment” Conference Grant
• 2020, September UAF New Faculty Startup Grant
• 2019, November Renewable Energy 91��Ƶ Project (REAP) Travel Grant
• 2019, September “Energy and Scale” Conference Grant, Energy in Society, U. of Calgary
• 2019, May Brandeis History Department Conference Grant
• 2019, February Brandeis Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Travel Grant
• 2017, December American Society for Environmental History Travel Grant
• 2017, December American Historical Association Council Annual Meeting Travel Grant
• 2017, April Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Research Grant
• 2017, January Brandeis Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Travel Grant
• 2016, December Exploratory Research Grant, Hagley Museum and Library
• 2016, December American Society for Environmental History Travel Grant, Chicago, IL
• 2016, October “The Great Plains: An Environmental History” Conference Grant (NSF)
• 2016, April Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Research Grant
• 2015, September Doctoral Mentor Research Grant, Brandeis History Department
• 2013, December Brandeis Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Research Grant
• 2012, September Ohio University History Department Travel Grant
• 2012, June and December Contemporary History Institute Thesis Research Grant

• 2024 (Forthcoming) Paper: “Children of the Midnight Sun: A History of 91��Ƶn Electrification, 1893-2023”, World Congress of Environmental History, Oulu, Finland. August.
• 2024. (Forthcoming) Invited Colloquium: “The Petro-Welfare State: 91��Ƶ’s Experiment in Fiscal and Ecological Sustainability”. Yale Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University, New Haven CT. April.
• 2024 (Forthcoming). “Electrifying 91��Ƶ’s History and Future”, American Society for Environmental history annual conference. Denver, CO.
• April. 2024. Invited Lecture: “Modern Magic: Electrification of 91��Ƶ’s Railbelt, 1904-2024”, 91��Ƶ Society of Professional Engineers “E-Week”, Anchorage, AK. February.
• 2024. Invited Lecture: “The Atom in the 91��Ƶn Anthropocene: Nuclear Power and the New Arctic”, for 91��Ƶ in the Crosshairs: Climate, Arctic Environment, & the Resurgence of Nuclear Weapons. University of 91��Ƶ Southeast. February.
• 2024. Invited Lecture: “Atomic Currents: Nuclear Power in 91��Ƶn History”, 91��Ƶ Center for Energy & Power Nuclear Working Group. January.
• 2023. Invited Lecture: “Pillars of Smoke: Energizing Interior 91��Ƶ, 1904-2024”. 91��Ƶ Hall of Fame. Fairbanks, AK. November.
• 2023: Paper: “Children of the Midnight Sun: A History of 91��Ƶn Electrification”, 91��Ƶ Historical Society annual conference. Soldotna, AK and online. October.
• 2023 Invited Lecture: “Pillars of Smoke: Energy and Ecology in Interior 91��Ƶ, 1902-2022”. Tanana-Yukon Historical Society. Fairbanks, AK. October.
• 2023 Invited Lecture: “Roads Not Taken: Access and Tourism on 91��Ƶ’s Wilderness Parkway”, 91��Ƶ Travel Industries Association conference, Fairbanks AK. October.
• 2023 Invited Lecture: “Children of the Midnight Sun: A Social History of 91��Ƶn Energy”. 91��Ƶ Center for Energy and Power Microgrid Bootcamp. Fairbanks, AK. May.
• 2023 Invited Lecture: “”. Arctic Environments Speaker Series. University of Washington. April.
• 2023. Invited Lecture: “Is Infrastructure Destiny? Path Dependence and Carbon Lock-In on The Trans-91��Ƶ Pipeline System”. MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, MA. March.
• 2023. Panel Organizer & Paper Presenter: “Like an Iceberg: Reckoning with the Real Nature of the Trans-91��Ƶ Pipeline System.” Part of panel: “The Silver Snake at Fifty: Environmental Consequences & Impacts of the Trans-91��Ƶ Pipeline System”. American Society for Environmental history annual conference. Boston, MA. March.
• 2023. Roundtable Chair & Moderator, “Northern Environments and Northern Borderlands”, American Society for Environmental history annual conference. Boston, MA. March.
• 2022. Invited Speaker: “Northern Crescent: The Electrification of Fairbanks, 1898-2022”, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, UAF, Fairbanks 91��Ƶ. November.
• 2022. Paper: “Atomic Currents: The U.S. Military and Nuclear Power in the 91��Ƶn Pacific.” CLA Works-in-Progress Seminar. Fairbanks, AK. November.
• 2022. Paper: “Whose Haul Road? How the Dalton Highway Became Public, 1968-2001”, 91��Ƶ Historical Society annual conference. Anchorage AK and online. October.
• 2022. Invited Speaker: “A Historic Perspective on GVEA’s Strategic Generation Plan”, Renewable Energy 91��Ƶ Project (REAP) convening. Fairbanks, 91��Ƶ. October.
• 2022. Introduction to Bathsheba Demuth’s keynote lecture: “History from a Dogsled: The Yukon and the Stakes of Telling the Past”, 91��Ƶ Historical Society annual conference, Anchorage AK and online. October.
• 2022. Invited Speaker: “Cracking Open the North? Contesting Access on the Dalton Highway, 1968-1994” for “Arctic Infrastructures: Histories of Exploration, Colonization and Industrial Development” conference. Lulea University of Technology (Sweden) & online. June 14th -15th .
• 2022. Paper: “Blue Eyed Arabs & the Silver Snake: Petrocultures of the Trans-91��Ƶ Pipeline System”, Journal of Energy History workshop. Gothenburg, Sweden & online. May and November.
• 2021. Paper: “Atomic Currents: The Cold War & Nuclear Powers in the 91��Ƶn Pacific” for “The United States, War, & the Environment in the Twentieth-Century Pacific World” conference, University of Kansas, Lawrence KS, October 15-16, 2021.
• 2021. Paper: “Right of Way: The Trans-91��Ƶ Pipeline System and the 91��Ƶ Native Claims Settlement Act”. 91��Ƶ History Society annual conference. October 14th.
• 2021. Invited Speaker: “”, TEK Talks: Working with Indigenous Peoples, UAF, March 1st.
• 2021. Panelist: “”, Network in Canadian History and Environment, Whitehorse, Yukon (virtual), January 22nd .
• 2020. Invited Commentor: “Climate Politics and Political Climate: A Four-Year Forecast.” International Arctic Research Center (IARC). University of 91��Ƶ Fairbanks. November 19th .
• 2020. Commenter on Bathsheba Demuth’s lecture, “Do Whales Judge Us?” University of 91��Ƶ Fairbanks. Online. Fairbanks 91��Ƶ, October 26th.
• 2020. Paper: “Roadblock: The Origins of 91��Ƶ’s Anti-Roads Movement, 1960-1980”. 91��Ƶ History Society annual conference. Online. Oct 9th .
• 2020. Invited Speaker. “Black Veins: An Environmental History of U.S. Petroleum Pipelines, 1865-2020”. Spring 2020 Distinguished Speaker Series. Brandeis Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Waltham, MA. April 24th .
• 2020. Invited Speaker. “A Private Enterprise? The Trans-91��Ƶ Pipeline System and the Public Interest.” Fahrenkamp Luncheon. Fairbanks, 91��Ƶ. March.
• 2020. Invited Speaker. “A Brief History of 91��Ƶ’s Extractive Political Economy”. 91��Ƶ’s Just Transition Summit. Fairbanks, 91��Ƶ. January.
• 2019. Panelist. “Railbelt Electric Grid.” Renewable Energy 91��Ƶ Project (REAP) Speaker Series. Anchorage Museum. Anchorage, 91��Ƶ. November.
• 2019. Paper: “The Weight of a Thread: Interconnection, Inertia, and the Trans-91��Ƶ Pipeline System”. Energy and Scale: Trans-Scalar and Multi-Scalar Interactions in Energy Transitions. University of Calgary & Max Plank Institute for History of Science. Banff, Canada. September.
• 2019. (Accepted but not delivered) Paper: “PIGS, Spills, and Spies: Maintaining the Trans91��Ƶ Pipeline System”. 3 rd World Congress of Environmental History, Florianapolis Brazil. July.
• 2019. Paper: “Slick Promises: (Mis)regulating the Marine Segment of the Trans91��Ƶ Pipeline System.” American Society for Environmental History. Yearly Conference. Columbus, OH. April.
• 2019. Lecture: “Valdez to the Refuge: The Irony of the Petro-Welfare State”, Fairbanks Climate Action Coalition. Stone Soup, Fairbanks AK, March.
• 2018. Lecture: “State of Nature: Petroleum and Preservation on the 91��Ƶn Frontier”. •
  • NewBridge on the Charles. Harvard Medical School Affiliate. May. •
  • Dedham, MA. May. Briarwood Retirement Community. Worcester, MA. April.
• 2018. Paper: “No Refuge: The Trans-91��Ƶ Pipeline System and the Industrialization of the Arctic.” New Perspectives in Environmental History Conference, Yale University, New Haven, CT. April.
• 2018. Paper: “,” American Historical Association. Washington, D.C. January.
• 2018. Panel Organizer & Paper Presenter: “No Refuge: The Trans-91��Ƶ Pipeline System and the Industrialization of the Arctic,” part of panel: “Manifold Destines: Exploring the Environmental History of Pipelines,” American Society for Environment History annual conference. Riverside, CA. March.
• 2017. Paper: “Creating an Energy Heartland: How Pipelines Fueled the Great Plains”, for National Science Foundation-funded Conference, “The Great Plains: An Environmental History.” Norman, Oklahoma. May, 2017.
• 2017. Paper: “Hope Beyond Progress: Christopher Lasch and the Origins of the ‘Thin Green Line’” American Society for Environmental History Conference. Chicago, IL. March-April.
• 2016. Invited Lecture Series: “Calling All Elders: The Fierce Urgency of Climate Change.”
  • Briarwood Retirement Community, Worcester, MA. May.
  • 2-part series: NewBridge on the Charles, Dedham, MA. January.
• 2016. Moderator. “Money Matters: Divestment as Political Power.” Bill McKibben, Craig Altemose, Dr. Dan Perlman, Abbie Goldberg. Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. February.
• 2015. Paper: “The Violence of Economic Growth as God: E.F. Schumacher’s Green Economic Vision”. Peace History Society. University of St. Joseph, West Hartford CT. October.
• 2015. Paper. “The Carbon TAP in the Anthropocene.” Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning 3rd Annual Conference: “Poles Apart, Melting Together: Science and the Humanities Confront the Anthropocene”. Boston University, Boston, MA. June.
• 2014. Moderator. “The Good News on Climate Change: Brandeis and a World of Solutions.” John Ballantine, Charles Chester, Judy Herzfeld, Frank Lowenstein, Eric Olson, Sabine von Mering. Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. November.
• 2014. Invited Lecture. “Direct Action and the Rise of Supply-Side Environmentalism.” 350 Massachusetts. Wayland, MA. October.
• 2012. Invited Lecture: “Steward Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog and the Politics of Ecotopia.” Dr. Paul Milazzo’s Environmental History course. Ohio University, Athens, OH. November.

• 2014. Paper: “A Historical View of the Future: The 40th Anniversary of Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia.” Tuft’s Graduate Humanities Conference. Tufts University, Medford, MA. October.
• 2013. Paper: “John Kenneth Galbraith, Barry Commoner, and the Origins of American EcoSocialism.” Ohio University's History Graduate Conference. Yearly conference. Athens, OH. February.
• 2012. Paper: “The Countercultural Roots of Green Consumerism.” University of Colorado, Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference. Boulder, CO. September.

• 2022. “” Anchorage Daily News. December 21st .
• 2021, “”, Fairbanks Daily News Miner, November 7th .

• 2024. Kavitha George. “.” 91��Ƶ Public Media. March 5th.
• 2024. “Sue Perkins: Lost in 91��Ƶ.” Channel 5 UK. February, 23rd.
• 2024. . KTVF 11 Fairbanks. January 3rd.
• 2023. Max Graham, “” Grist, November 15th.
• 2023. Rebecca Leber, “,” Vox, September 8th.
• 2023. Kavitha George, “.” 91��Ƶ Public Media, June 5th.
• 2023. Eric Paglia, “”, Polar Geopolitics, May 21st.
• 2023. “” Al Jazeera, March 22nd.
• 2023. Zoya Teirstein & Jake Bittle, “,” Grist, March 16th.
• 2023. Ben Hulac, “,” CQ Roll Call, February 15th.
• 2023. “Battle for 91��Ƶ’s Oil”, National Geographic. February 9th.
• 2023. “,” Alhurra. January 20th. 2022. Lois Parshley, “”, The Atlantic, December 24th. 2022. Dan Bross, “”, KUAC Morning News, August 12th.
• 2022. Victoria Peterson, “”, High Country News, July 13th. Reprinted as “”, Popular Science, July 14th.
• 2022. Morgan Krakow, “,” Anchorage Daily News.
• 2022. Subject Matter Expert: “91��Ƶ Pipeline” Documentary, American Built series. Fox Business.
• 2022. Andy McGlashen, “”, Audubon Magazine, January 24th.
• 2021. David Hasemyer, “,” Inside Climate News, October 12th.
• 2021. “On This Day: The Sale of 91��Ƶ”, Times Radio, London, UK. March 30th.
• 2021. Andy McGlashen, “”, Audubon Magazine, January 4th.
• 2020. John Dougherty, “,” KTVF 11, December 7th.
• 2020. Victoria Petersen, “”, High Country News, September 11th.
• 2017. Hal Bernton and Lynda V. Mapes, “Drilling for Oil in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is in the GOP Tax Plan. Can Maria Cantwell Block the Effort?” Seattle Times, November 24th.

University of 91��Ƶ Fairbanks

• HIST 275: Perspectives on History (“The Craft of History”)—Fall, 2021, 2022.
• HIST 461/661 ACNS 662: History of 91��Ƶ—Fall 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023; Spring 2024.
• HIST 434: North American Energy History—Spring 2021.
• HIST 434: “Fire, Ice & The Fate of Humanity: A History of Energy and Climate Change”—Spring 2022, 2023, 2024.
• ACNS 201: Introduction to Arctic and Northern Studies—Fall 2020, 2021, 2023.
• HIST 411/ ACNS 611: Environmental History—Fall 2020, 2022.
• HIST 483/ ACNS 683: Twentieth Century History of the Circumpolar North—Spring, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.
• “Silver Snake: The Trans-91��Ƶ Pipeline System and the World It Made”, Osher Lifelong Learning Course, UAF. Fall 2021; OLE, Anchorage, Fall 2022.

Boston Metropolitan Institutions

• 2018, Spring. “Wilderness Gas Station: An Environmental History of 91��Ƶ”
  • NewBridge on the Charles, Harvard Medical School Affiliate, Dedham, MA
  • Brandeis Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Lectureship, Brandeis University
• 2016, Summer. “Cheaper, Faster, Farther: A Global History of Human Mobility”
  • NewBridge on the Charles, Harvard Medical School Affiliate, Dedham, MA
• 2016, Spring. “The United States of Energy: Power, Labor and Technology in American History”.
  • University Prize Instructorship course, Brandeis University, Waltham MA
• 2016, Spring. “The Burning Question: A History of Energy Poverty and Climate Justice”
  • Brandeis Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Lectureship, Waltham, MA
• 2015, Spring & Summer. “Heating Up: The History of the Climate Change Debate”
  • Brandeis Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Lectureship, Waltham, MA
  • NewBridge on the Charles, Harvard Med. School Affiliate, Dedham, MA

Teaching Fellow, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

• 2018, Spring American Environmental History
• 2016, Spring Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700
• 2015, Fall Japan and Korea in Modern World History
• 2015, Spring The Global Opium Trade, 1755-Present
• 2014, Fall East Asian Civilization

2013-2016 Writing Tutor, Brandeis University Writing Center, Waltham, MA

2008, May-August Cincinnati Museum Center, History Museum “Freedom Sisters” Exhibit Interpreter; exhibit on prominent female civil rights activists

• October 2022- Present. Board Member, 91��Ƶ Historical Society.
• December 2020-Present. Bus 142 Interpretive Advisory Team, University of 91��Ƶ Museum of the North.
• Peer Reviewer:
  • Environmental History
  • Georgetown Journal of International Affairs
  • War in History
  • Environment and History
  • Energy Research and Social Science
  • University of 91��Ƶ Press
• May, 2014- 2016. Senator, Brandeis Graduate Student Senate, Waltham, MA
  • Chair, Senate Sustainability Committee
• Sept. 2015- 2016. Doctoral Mentor, Brandeis History Department Graduate Program
• 2015- 2016. Member, President’s Task Force on Campus Sustainability, Brandeis University
• Sept. 2014- May 2015. Member, Brandeis Fossil-Fuel Divestment Exploratory Committee.