{"id":2363,"date":"2021-05-12T14:53:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T19:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=2363"},"modified":"2021-05-12T14:53:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T19:53:20","slug":"dr-samuel-truett","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/speaker\/dr-samuel-truett\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Samuel Truett"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Samuel Truett received his Ph.D. at Yale University and is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Southwest at the University of New Mexico.\u00a0 He is the author of <em>Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands<\/em> (2006), the co-editor of <em>Continental Crossroads: Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History<\/em> (2004), and writes broadly on borderlands, environmental, and Native American History in North American and global perspectives.\u00a0 He has been a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Tampere (Finland) and a fellow at the Huntington Library, Newberry Library, John Carter Brown Library, and Institut d\u2019Etudes Avanc\u00e9es (Institute for Advanced Study) in Nantes, France.\u00a0 At the University of New Mexico he has led interdisciplinary efforts with the Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies and Ted Turner\u2019s New Mexico ranches.\u00a0 His current work on border crossings in the nineteenth-century world reaches south across the hemisphere and west to imperial and Indigenous spaces in the Pacific basin, the Indian Ocean, and the greater China Seas.\u00a0 He is also interested in cross-disciplinary ways of using history to rethink planetary crossings, entanglements, and futures of humans and their non-human kin in contexts of rapid social and environmental change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2365,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-2363","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Southwest at the University of New Mexico","speaker_last_name":"Truett","speaker_classification":["Featured Guests"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/2363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/2363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2368,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/2363\/revisions\/2368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}