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About Aspen Brown
I am currently pursuing an MA in history at the University of Wyoming. My thesis will be an intellectual micro-history intersecting the histories of Western science, environment, and professionalism of American Higher Education. Utilizing Wyoming botanist Aven Nelson and the University of Wyoming's Rocky Mountain Herbarium as subjects, I am examining how fin de siècle botanical networks developed in America around the institutionalization of the herbarium and knowledge production. I also plan on beginning an investigation of ecocrit from the lens of queer and affect theories. My current general interests include creative writing, swimming, magic the gathering, and dancing (when it is safe to come out of my COVID burrow).NBN Episodes hosted by Aspen:
August 9, 2022
Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and Beyond
What is holding the oceans back from entirely flooding the earth? While a twenty-first century thinker may approach the answer to this question within…
May 31, 2022
Song of the Earth
In today’s podcast, Elisabeth Ervin-Blankenheim explains how understanding harmonics of the earth provides a forward-thinking methodology …
May 9, 2022
Unsettling Nature
In today's NBN Environmental Studies interview, dancer, performer, and literary scholar Dr. Taylor Eggan joins us to speak about his new book Unsettli…
April 13, 2022
Timescales
Time cannot be measured in so many coffee spoons, or that is what editors, Dr. Bethany Wiggin, Dr. Carolyn Fornoff, and Dr. Patricia Eunji Kim argue i…
March 16, 2022
Explorations in the Icy North
Harsh conditions, intense isolation, and acute danger inevitably impacted the making and communicating eighteenth-century scientific knowledge leading…
March 1, 2022
The Usufructuary Ethos
Would a claim that human possession and property rights as merely temporary seem outlandish to a 21st-century thinker? How would this idea be received…
February 18, 2022
Environmental Defenders
Join Dr. Mary Menton and Dr. Philippe Le Billon as they dive into their new edited volume, Environmental Defenders: Deadly Struggle for Life and Terri…
November 30, 2021
Performing Environmentalisms
The volume, Performing Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture and Ecological Change, edited by John Holmes McDowell, Katherine Borland, Rebecca Dirksen…
October 25, 2021
Nomad's Land
Chronicling the retreat of mobile pastoralization from Mediterranean coastlines, Andrea Duffy's Nomad's Land: Pastoralism and French Environmental Po…
October 15, 2021
Deep Time Reckoning
Based on twelve years of anthropological exploration, Vincent Ialenti's Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now (MIT Press, 2020)…
October 6, 2021
Homewaters
Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound (University of Washington Press, 2021) tells a story about exploitation and a story of hope. F…
October 5, 2021
Watershed
Ranea Lenor Hanson's Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress (U Minnesota Press, 2021) weaves a narrative that captures life on the water, …
September 3, 2021
No Wood, No Kingdom
Pushing back against the traditional narratives assuming that the American colonies served as resource “windfalls” which released Europe from the cons…
August 27, 2021
Cultivating Knowledge
Cultivating Knowledge: Biotechnology, Sustainability and the Human Cost of Cotton Capitalism in India by Andrew Flachs (University of Arizona Press, 2…
August 25, 2021
Red Coats and Wild Birds
Remapping empire, nature, and scientific enquiry beyond the simple binary exchange between periphery and metropole, Dr. Kirsten Greer demonstrates how…
August 16, 2021
Wild Abandon
Despite the proliferation of scientific ecology in the second half of the 20th C emphasizing the interconnection between environment and humanity, Wil…