Erika Bsumek

Erika Bsumek is the Ellen Clark Temple Chair in Women's History at the University of Texas at Austin. She 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 (University Press of Kansas, 2008) and the co-editor of a collection of essays on global environmental history titled Nation States and the Global Environment: New Approaches to International Environmental History (Oxford University Press, 2013). Her latest book, The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau (University of Texas Press, 2023) explores the social and environmental history of the area surrounding Glen Canyon on the Utah/Arizona border from the 1840s to the present and was awarded with the Best Indigenous Studies Award from the MHA and picked as a 2024 Southwest Book of the Year by Pima County Public Library.