COLLABORATIONS
“With that Shadow Over Them”: Constructuring Catskill Reservoirs, Remembering Home
I am co-curating an exhibit which will be staged at the Yager Museum of Art and Culture at Hartwick College, in Oneonta, NY. Using photographs, transcripts from mid-twentieth century eminent domain proceedings, and recently digitized oral histories conducted in the 1980s and 1990s, the exhibit considers the tension between intimate and interlinked losses in the Catskills and the public benefits of the water supply system.With that Shadow Over Them opens October 24, 2024 and will remain on view through spring 2025.
Some of the oral histories used in the exhibit were digitized with support from a 2022 grant from the Agricultural History Society.
Public Environmental History in a World of Wounds
Building on a June 2024 workshop, Public Environmental History in a World of Wounds, I have been collaborating with a group of environmental historians, public history practitioners, and artists to explore environmental trauma as a method and theoretical frame for understanding environmental losses, harms, and hazards in history. With an emphasis on public history, the group is developing a set of interconnected articles and a mapping project designed to reach across academic and non-academic publics.Left: Former site of the village of Montela, along the Roundout Reservoir, Town of Neversink. 2020.