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Sick of the City: Conservation, Colonialism, and the Making of the “Healthy” Body

A screenshot of Beth's presentation Sick of the City

    • Cronon, William. “The Trouble with Wilderness: Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature.” Environmental History 1, no. 1 (January 1, 1996): 7–28. https://doi.org/10.2307/3985059.

    • Johnston-Goodstar, Katie. “Decolonizing Youth Development: Re-Imagining Youthwork for Indigenous Youth Futures.” AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 16, no. 4 (December 2020): 378–86. https://doi.org/10.1177/1177180120967998.

    • Potvin, Leigh, and Blair Niblett. “Queer, Fat, and OUTdoors.” Parks Stewardship Forum 39, no. 2 (May 15, 2023). https://doi.org/10.5070/P539260973.

    • Farrell, Amy Erdman. Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture. New York, UNITED STATES: New York University Press, 2011. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/csu/detail.action?docID=865462.

    • Powell, Miles A. Vanishing America: Species Extinction, Racial Peril, and the Origins of Conservation. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2016.

    • Ray, Sarah Jaquette. The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2013.

    • Schwartz, Hillel. Never Satisfied: A Cultural History of Diets, Fantasies, and Fat. 1st Anchor Books ed. New York: Anchor Books, 1990.

    • Spence, Mark David. Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks. New York; NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000.

    • Strings, Sabrina. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2019.

A screenshot of Beth's presentation called Herd Mentality

Herd Mentality: American Eugenic Conservationists in the 1900s and the Connection Between the Conservation and Eugenics Movements

    • Allen, G. E. (2013). “Culling the Herd”: Eugenics and the Conservation Movement in the United States, 1900–1940. Journal of the History of Biology, 46(1), 31–72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-011-9317-1

    • Dyett, J., & Thomas, C. (2019a). Overpopulation Discourse: Patriarchy, Racism, and the Specter of Ecofascism. Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, 18(1–2), 205–224. https://doi.org/10.1163/15691497-12341514

    • Layden, T., David-Chavez, D., Galofré García, E., Gifford, G., Lavoie, A., Weingarten, E., & Bombaci, S. (2025). Confronting colonial history: Toward healing, just, and equitable Indigenous conservation futures. Ecology and Society, 30(1), art33. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-15890-300133

    • Linett, M. (2023). Mind the Gap: Eugenics and Animality. Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 17(4), 435–451. https://doi.org/10.3828/jlcds.2023.33

    • Persinger, C. (Forthcoming). The Race Politics of Bison Conservation. Environmental Ethics, 47.

    • Powell, M. A. (2015). “Pestered with Inhabitants”: Aldo Leopold, William Vogt, and More Trouble with Wilderness. Pacific Historical Review, 84(2), 195–226. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2015.84.2.195

    • Schmitt, C., & Cohen, L. (2024). Untangling roots: Reflections on eugenics, conservation, and US national parks. Parks Stewardship Forum, 40(2). https://doi.org/10.5070/P540263642

    • Tuck, E., & Yang, K. W. (2012). Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 1(1). http://decolonization.org/index.php/des/article/view/18630

    • Dunbar-Ortiz, R. (2014). An indigenous peoples’ history of the United States. Beacon Press.

    • Ordover, N. (2003). American eugenics: Race, queer anatomy, and the science of nationalism. University of Minnesota Press.

    • Powell, M. A. (2016). Vanishing America: Species extinction, racial peril, and the origins of conservation. Harvard University Press.

    • Ray, S. J. (2013). The ecological other: Environmental exclusion in American culture. University of Arizona Press.

    • Spiro, J. P. (2009). Defending the master race: Conservation, eugenics, and the legacy of Madison Grant. University of Vermont Press ; Published by University Press of New England.

    • Stern, A. M. (2016). Eugenic nation: Faults and frontiers of better breeding in modern America (Second edition). University of California Press.

    • Taylor, D. E. (2016). The rise of the American conservation movement: Power, privilege, and environmental protection. Duke University Press.

Body Size and Nature Interview Study

A flyer with inclusion criteria for Beth's interview study about body size and nature

Recognizing and Addressing Oppression in the Sciences Graduate Course

A flyer for Recognizing and Addressing Oppression in the Sciences, Beth's graduate course