Erika M. Bsumek, Associate Professor of History at UT Austin, is the author of Indian-made: Navajo Culture in the Marketplace, 1880-1940 (University of Kansas Press, 2008), and co-editor of Nation-States and the Global Environment: New Approaches to International Environmental History (Oxford University Press, 2013). She  teaches courses on the built environment in American history that cover the relationship between geography, climate change, and engineering. She is currently working on a book project titled "Damming Zion: Mormons, Indians, and the Fight over Resources on the Colorado Plateau, 1848-1980." Her research interests are Native American history, environmental history, the history of engineering, and the history of consumption and production. She is a Fellow at the Institute for Historical Studies in 2017-2018.

Responder:
Anthony K. Webster
Professor of Anthropology
The University of Texas at Austin

To RSVP to attend and receive a copy of the pre-circulated paper, please email cmeador@austin.utexas.edu by 9 a.m., Friday, Jan. 19.

Sponsored by Native American and Indigenous Studies and Institute for Historical Studies in the Department of History.