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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.

  • 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 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.)

  • 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.)

  • 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.)

  • 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.)

Last Updated: 6/5/23