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.
- (Gregorio Barahona Ocampo, M.A.)
- Seeding a Sustainable Future: The Centrality of Community in Regenerative Agriculture Within the Tuality Plains Region of Oregon (Lacey Bishop, M.A.)
- Contentiously Constructed, Community-Oriented: A Critical Geography of the Nature Center at Pia Okwai (Olivia Chandler, M.S.)
- patternfaring: practices of paradox and placemaking (Jerald Lim, M.S.)
- (Re)Watered Bodies: Daylighting New York City's Queer Ecologies (Quinn Luthy, M.A.)
- Communicating the (Re)Naming of the Nature Center at Pia Okwai: Fostering Anti-Colonial Relations through a Community-Based Public Relations Approach (Erin O'Farrell, M.A.)
- (Da'Quanisha Parks, M.S.)
- Reverence is resistance: Stories and Spells from a Lake-led movement (Sav Pearson, M.A.)
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Stories of the Fight for Health, Environment, and Sacred Lands in White Mesa (Madi Sudweeks, M.A.)
- Ecotage!: A Game of Climate Uncertainty (Rune Davino-Collins, M.S.)
- Disturbances: Cultural Stratification and Contamination on the Grasse River (Skylar Fetter, M.A.)
- 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. 2020)
- Fanning the flames: Weaving Carbon Narratives of the Past for an Understanding of Modern Wildfires (Katherine Bui, M.S. 2020)
- Utopian Poets and Cyberpunk Anarchists: The Cultural Commons and The Multitude in Latin American Science Fiction (Davey Cox, M.A. 2020)
- Ecologies of Thirst: Water, Climate & Migration in Arizona's Borderlands (Taylor Cunningham, M.A. 2020)
- On the Seas as in Heaven: Reimagining Christian Ethics for Resilience-Based Marine Fisheries (Lauren Hawkes, M.A. 2020)
- Connection Prayer: Tracing One Deer’s Path Across a Fragmented Landscape (Ben Kilbourne, M.S. 2020)
- The Wasatch Oasis: A Deep Environmental History (Jacob Northcutt, M.A. 2020)
- Craft Ecologies: Exploring Labor, Land Ethic, and Local Community in the Twenty-first Century (Michelle Wentling, M.A. 2020)
- Water you doing: finding place in the digital (Tiana Birrell, M.S. 2019)
- Goodbye to all that: haunted subjects and environmental affect in Wallace Stegner and Joan Didion (Zak Breckenridge, M.A. 2019)
- Ecocentric environmental education: using plants to connect & engage kids with local ecosystems through an interdisciplinary curriculum (Laura George, M.S. 2019)
- Expropriation by degradation: cumulative environmental inequalities in northern Alberta from the fur trade to the tar sands (Keith Scott, M.A. 2019)
- The Seismic West: tectonic epistemologies in the colonial and nuclear anthropocene (Hannah Smay, M.S. 2019)
- Rapture Rupture: poems for apocalypse & anthropocene (Heather Tourgee, M.A. 2019)
- People, plants and place: finding empowerment through community-building on the Green Farm Team (Cleo Warner, M.S. 2019)
- All at Sea: Rethinking our policial and ethical responsibility to the glocal oceans (Bianca Greeff, M.S. 2018)
- Layers Exposed: A Journey Through the Frontlines of Climate Injustice on the Colorado Plateau (J. Brooke Larsen, M.A. 2018)
- Breathe: Protest Art, Social Movements and Air Quality (Casey Clifford, M.A. 2018)
- The Mountain Guides: Climbing's Connection to Environmental Advocacy (Daniel Hohl, M.S. 2018)
- The Migration Bomb: How Climate Change Will Remap Our World (Maya Silver, M.A. 2018)
- Blue Mar: A Novel (Francesca Varela, M.A. 2018)
- EcoPoetics: The Warmest Zero (Mahreen "Jai" Hamid Bashir, M.A. 2018)
- 37 Records: Mapping a City Creek Soundscape (Sarah Dyer, M.S. 2017)
- Shift: Broadening Environmental Priorities in the Anthropocene (Kathleen Metcalf, M.S. 2017)
- Whose Streets? The Contestation of Public Space: Main Street, Salt Lake City (Kailey Luzbetak, M.S. 2017)
- See the Forest for the Trees: Examining Best Practice Collaboration in Forest Management Planning Processes (Kailey Kornhauser, M.S. 2017)
- Bird's-Eye View: Ecocentral Language and Environmental Education Curriculum (Joshua Fulton, M.S. 2017)
- The Silvertip Womb (Josh Wennergren, M.S. 2017)
- Shaped by Snow: The Landscapes of our Relationships and the Threats of Climate Change (Ayja Bounous, M.A. 2017)
- North with You: iPhone Book-App (Sarah Brey, M.S. 2016)
- "Stand ye in holy places": Place and Identity in Contemporary Mormon Meetinghouses (Ruedigar Matthes, M.S. 2016)
- From the Bush: Feminist Poetics of the Northern Interior (Nicole Brittany Cox, M.S. 2016)
- A Wasatch Voice: History, Future and Land Ethic in the Wasatch Mountains (Jack Stauss, M.S. 2016)
- Death Eyes (Hannah McLimans, M.S. 2016)
- All of Us Beasts (Claire Taylor, M.S. 2016)
- Encountering the More-Than-Human in Urban Fantasy Literature (Carissa M. Beckwith, M.A. 2016)
- Perceptions of Human Overpopulation: Disavowal and Dysfunction in Salt Lake City (Bryna K. Gallagher, M.S. 2016)
- An Elegy on Species Obituaries (Stinne Storm Folving, M.S. 2015)
- Toward Abundance: An Ecological Design to Enhance the Resilience of Shambow Creek and the Taft-Nicholson Center (Shaun Daniel, M.S. 2015)
- "And a Soul in Ev'ry Stone": The Ludic Natures of Pale Fire and Gravity's Rainbow (Robert "Bobby" Kennedy, M.A. 2015)
- A Narrative Atlas of the Anthropocene (Patrick Smyth, M.S. 2015)
- Taking the Waters: Baptism, Business and Place on Salt Lake City's Beck Street (Michael McLane, M.S. 2015)
- 21 Rivers (Ian Peisner, M.S. 2015)
- Three Georgia Winters: Writing and Lighting Fire (Hilary Smith, M.A. 2015)
- Field Guide to Other: A Nonfiction Collection (Anna Elza Brady, M.S. 2015)
- Mountains That Never Rest (Alisha Anderson, M.S. 2015)
- The Range of Light & Fast (Alex Ertaud, M.A. 2015)
- Moab & the Monument (Resford Rouzer, M.S. 2014)
- The Psychology of Salt: A Psychocartography of the State of Utah (Maggie Hippman, M.A. 2014)
- The Center of It: Coming Alive in a Time of Crisis (Laura Schmidt, M.S. 2014)
- Voices Downwind: Oral Histories from Utahns Exposed to Nuclear Testing (Robert DeBirk, M.A. 2013)
- Pulling Up Beets: An Exploration of Local Food in Southwest Montana (Kelsey Sather, M.A. 2013)
- Milk Lines: Tainted Headwaters of Heritage (Julia Pace, M.A. 2013)
- Mezzanine, or, Life at the Equator (Jesse Don Peterson, M.S. 2013)
- Feather Beard: Steps from the Heart of a Solitary Walker (Frank Carter, M.S. 2013)
- Look-out: An Exploration of Fire, Rot, War & Service (Erin Halcomb, M.A. 2013)
- The Salted Earth: Queer Materialism and Ecological Metaphor (Eric Robertson, M.A. 2013)
- Salt Lake Inverted: An Ecological Genealogy of Home (Emerson Andrews, M.S. 2013)
- Nightscape: A Pilgrimage into Darkness (Annie Gilliland, M.S. 2013)
- Exploring the Edge: Searching for Wilderness in Desolation and Gray Canyons (Alison Holland, M.S. 2013)
- Green River, Black Rock: Running Rivers and Mining Oil in Utah's Uintah Basin (Robin Rothfeder, M.S. 2012)
- Confluence: Endangered Fish, People and Utah's Green River (Nick Schou, M.S. 2012)
- The MX Moment: Exploring Cold War History and Democratic Future of Nuclear West (James Kichas, M.S. 2012)
- Where Dry Rivers Meet: A Palimpsest of the Pahvant Valley, Black Rock and Sevier Deserts (Dylan Mace, M.S. 2012)
- Hidden Beauty: A Portrait of the Turkey Vulture (Dianne Van Dien, M.S. 2012)
- The Kid Loses to Domination: History, Domination and Subjecthood in Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion(David M. Hoza, M.S. 2012)
- The Colorado River Beyond Resource: Finding Habit, Home and Restoration Through Generations Moving Downstream (Ben Reeder, M.A. 2012)
- Plugging Into Nature: A Radio Journey to Source My Electricity (Ross Chambless, M.A. 2011)
- Double Black Diamond: The Hard Truth About Sustainable Actions in the Ski Industry (Meaghan McKasy, M.S. 2011)
- New Mythologies: Creating Family and Home in a Changing World (Lindsy Floyd, M.S. 2011)
- The Writer's Dilemma: Telling Stories in the Age of Information Overload (Katharine "Katie" Plumb, M.S. 2011)
- A Guide to the E2 Business Program (Jack Lasley, M.S. 2011)
- Cloud Shadows (Diane Leslie Fouts, M.A. 2011)
- Home Landscapes: Tradition, Identity and Environments (Catherine Ashton, M.A. 2011)
- Touch: Making Contact With Climate Change (Benjamin Paul Burke Cromwell, M.A. 2011)
- Memoryscapes: American Art and the Tension of Time (Andrew Ross, M.A. 2011)
- At the Great Salt Lake: Place-Based Gallery Programming at the Natural History Museum of Utah (Andrea Nelson, M.A. 2011)
- The Landscape of Learning: Place-Based Education in Utah (Alex Porpora, M.S. 2011)
- New Directions for (Cosmopolitan) Bioregionalism (Nicholas Tyson Webster, M.S. 2010)
- The Role of Narratives in the Human Relationship to the Natural World (Lilly Arlette Jensen, M.A. 2010)
- Sheep-Work: Food Empires and Pastoral Resistance in the Intermountain West (Katy Savage, M.A. 2010)
- Green Consumerism: Exploring the Conundrum of Consuming ‘Green’ (Drew vonLintel, M.S. 2010)
- Crafting Principles for Sustainable Development: Negotiations in the Drafting of the Earth Charter and the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development (Brandon Hollingshead, M.S. 2010)
- Stories of Business and Place: The Organizations of Salt Lake City's E2 Program (Shannon Lyon Cornelius, M.S. 2009)
- A Land of Milk & Honey: Family, Food & Faith in Utah (Carrol Firmage, M.S. 2009)
- The Nature of the Beasts (Paul Grindrod, M.S. 2008)
- The Next Generation Project: Modern Environmentalism, Grassroots Leadership & the Emergence of Great West Institute (Christopher Peterson, M.S. 2008)
- Wordly Atonement: Neo-Agrarianism and Marriage to Place in the Works of Wendell Berry (Bryan Wallis, M.A. 2008)
- Interface: Connecting the Work of Gregory Bateson, Deleuze and Guattari, and Alain Badiou (Adele Haverty Bealer, M.A. 2008)
- Smeared Soot and Black Blood: Reintroducing the Brown Bear to the Pyrenees and Its Festivals (Patrick D. Mabey, M.A. 2007)
- The Family Waters (Leigh A. Bernacchi, M.S. 2007)