{"id":217,"date":"2022-11-23T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/into-the-colaverse\/?post_type=speaker&p=217"},"modified":"2022-11-10T18:32:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T18:32:14","slug":"erika-bsumek","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/into-the-colaverse\/speaker\/erika-bsumek\/","title":{"rendered":"Erika Bsumek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dr. Bsumek has written on Native American history, environmental history\/studies, the history of the built environment, and the history of the U.S. West. She is the author of the award-winning, Indian-made: Navajo Culture in the Marketplace, 1848-1960<\/em><\/a> (University Press of Kansas, 2008) and the coeditor of a collection of essays on global environmental history titled Nation States and the Global Environment: New Approaches to International Environmental History<\/em><\/a> (Oxford University Press, 2013). Her current research explores the social and environmental history of the area surrounding Glen Canyon on the Utah\/Arizona border from the 1840s to the present. The title of her forthcoming book with the University of Texas Press is The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau.<\/a> She is also working on a larger project that examines the impact that large construction projects (dams, highways, cities, and suburbs) had on the American West which is tentatively titled “The Concrete West: Engineering Society and Culture in the Arid West, 1900-1970” and a biography of a Navajo woman who was enslaved by the Utes, sold to LDS settlers, and then who became a well-known figure in the region tentatively titled \u201cUnsettling Narratives: Rose Daniels, Indentured Servitude, and the Creation of an American Symbol.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Bsumek has written op-eds for publications such as Time<\/em>, the Austin American Statesman<\/em>, Huffington Post<\/em>, Al Jazeera America<\/em>, and the Pacific Standard. She <\/em>has been a Provost’s Teaching Fellow and has been named a UT-Austin Academy of Distinguished Teacher and a
UT System Regents Distinguished Teaching Professor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is also the creator of a digital timeline<\/a> and network mapping software platform, called ClioVis, which enables students and researchers to create time-aligned network maps of their class\/research projects. The platform currently serves over 11,000 students. She is also the lead scholar on the Radical Hope Syllabus Project<\/a> and the coordinator of the website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":233,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-217","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin","speaker_last_name":"Bsumek","speaker_classification":["Current Staff","Featured Guests"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/into-the-colaverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/into-the-colaverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/into-the-colaverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/into-the-colaverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/into-the-colaverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/217\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/into-the-colaverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/into-the-colaverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}