Dale Mize
@dalemize.bsky.social
University of Illinois History PhD Student | 1st Gen | He/him/his | Beef historian 🥩
Grateful to win the WHA Graduate Student Prize at this year’s convention in Albuquerque, NM!
October 18, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Grateful to win the WHA Graduate Student Prize at this year’s convention in Albuquerque, NM!
Wow - what a powerful read!
September 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Wow - what a powerful read!
This is so cool! Can’t wait to hear more about how it goes.
I’m the professor who’s been teaching and writing about American history through Red Dead Redemption. I’m thrilled to announce my new Spring ’26 class, HIST 150, "Grand Theft America: US History since 1980 through the GTA Video Games." Full interview: www.ign.com/articles/we-...
We Got a GTA College History Class Before GTA 6 - IGN
On January 20, 2026, students at the University of Tennessee will attend the world’s first Grand Theft Auto college history class. That’s right: we got a GTA college history class before GTA 6. IGN in...
www.ign.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This is so cool! Can’t wait to hear more about how it goes.
This was only half of the reading list, but thankfully they can all be put away today because I passed my major field prelim exam this morning! 🥳
September 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This was only half of the reading list, but thankfully they can all be put away today because I passed my major field prelim exam this morning! 🥳
Blog post about my summer research trip: history.illinois.edu/news/2025-09...
WARNING: I love a good a pun
WARNING: I love a good a pun
The steaks of archival research | Department of History | Illinois
Graduate student Dale Mize explores beefy history
history.illinois.edu
September 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Blog post about my summer research trip: history.illinois.edu/news/2025-09...
WARNING: I love a good a pun
WARNING: I love a good a pun
Reposted by Dale Mize
Come see @dalemize.bsky.social’s and my new exhibit!!!
We hope you'll join us!
September 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Come see @dalemize.bsky.social’s and my new exhibit!!!
Found a needle in a haystack plane ticket for WHA (MUCH cheaper than any other tickets I was finding). I’m taking that as a good omen that my first prelim exam will go swimmingly in a few weeks.
August 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Found a needle in a haystack plane ticket for WHA (MUCH cheaper than any other tickets I was finding). I’m taking that as a good omen that my first prelim exam will go swimmingly in a few weeks.
“…unburdened by the structures of modern environmental law, imprisoned workers helped turn an unbroken wilderness into a beehive of economic activity…”
- @cjeffersonhall.bsky.social
I loved this work, found it intriguing, and it is a timely read. I would highly recommend!
- @cjeffersonhall.bsky.social
I loved this work, found it intriguing, and it is a timely read. I would highly recommend!
August 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
“…unburdened by the structures of modern environmental law, imprisoned workers helped turn an unbroken wilderness into a beehive of economic activity…”
- @cjeffersonhall.bsky.social
I loved this work, found it intriguing, and it is a timely read. I would highly recommend!
- @cjeffersonhall.bsky.social
I loved this work, found it intriguing, and it is a timely read. I would highly recommend!
“…wilderness reveals itself to be not some primeval character of nature but rather an artifact of modernity, a concept employed by conservationists to naturalize the transformations taking place in rural America during the last nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.”
- Karl Jacoby
- Karl Jacoby
August 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
“…wilderness reveals itself to be not some primeval character of nature but rather an artifact of modernity, a concept employed by conservationists to naturalize the transformations taking place in rural America during the last nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.”
- Karl Jacoby
- Karl Jacoby
“Ever since John D. Rockefeller began to finance the massive restoration of Williamsburg during the 1920s and 1930s, ‘the world of American historic preservation has not been the same.’”
- Arnold Alanen and Robert Melnick
- Arnold Alanen and Robert Melnick
August 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
“Ever since John D. Rockefeller began to finance the massive restoration of Williamsburg during the 1920s and 1930s, ‘the world of American historic preservation has not been the same.’”
- Arnold Alanen and Robert Melnick
- Arnold Alanen and Robert Melnick
“It is not surprising that those whose economic and social interests depended on the continuing use of chemicals have a significant stake in asserting the uncertainty of the irrelevance of any connections between environment and health.”
-Linda Nash
-Linda Nash
August 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
“It is not surprising that those whose economic and social interests depended on the continuing use of chemicals have a significant stake in asserting the uncertainty of the irrelevance of any connections between environment and health.”
-Linda Nash
-Linda Nash
“The most crucial lesson of big box history is that these cinderblock-and-parking-lot edifices are a product of choice rather than fate and that the entrepreneurship that created them will also surely destroy the current system for on deemed more efficient.”
-Shane Hamilton
-Shane Hamilton
July 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
“The most crucial lesson of big box history is that these cinderblock-and-parking-lot edifices are a product of choice rather than fate and that the entrepreneurship that created them will also surely destroy the current system for on deemed more efficient.”
-Shane Hamilton
-Shane Hamilton
“Making manure, more than any other single practice represented the intention and wherewithal of any farmer to remain on land presently cultivated.”
-Steven Stoll
-Steven Stoll
July 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
“Making manure, more than any other single practice represented the intention and wherewithal of any farmer to remain on land presently cultivated.”
-Steven Stoll
-Steven Stoll
Researches beef cattle all week, reads about dairy cattle on Saturday 😎
“What eaters put on the plate or pour in the glass embeds them within social and economic relationships, engages them in political contexts, and ties them to ecological processes.”
- @kdsh.bsky.social
“What eaters put on the plate or pour in the glass embeds them within social and economic relationships, engages them in political contexts, and ties them to ecological processes.”
- @kdsh.bsky.social
June 29, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Researches beef cattle all week, reads about dairy cattle on Saturday 😎
“What eaters put on the plate or pour in the glass embeds them within social and economic relationships, engages them in political contexts, and ties them to ecological processes.”
- @kdsh.bsky.social
“What eaters put on the plate or pour in the glass embeds them within social and economic relationships, engages them in political contexts, and ties them to ecological processes.”
- @kdsh.bsky.social
This one felt timely. Just in case anyone needs a 1960s refresher on inflation.
June 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This one felt timely. Just in case anyone needs a 1960s refresher on inflation.
I’m a little jealous that this 9 year old could draw better than I can at 25
June 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I’m a little jealous that this 9 year old could draw better than I can at 25
First day of two weeks at the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming in Laramie! Already have found amazing materials in the first few hours! Can’t wait to continue exploring!
June 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
First day of two weeks at the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming in Laramie! Already have found amazing materials in the first few hours! Can’t wait to continue exploring!
#5
“Their sense of place was utopian and each group framed its vision in light of its own narrow vision of the past, often in blatantly self-serving terms…”
- Matthew Klingle
“Their sense of place was utopian and each group framed its vision in light of its own narrow vision of the past, often in blatantly self-serving terms…”
- Matthew Klingle
June 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
#5
“Their sense of place was utopian and each group framed its vision in light of its own narrow vision of the past, often in blatantly self-serving terms…”
- Matthew Klingle
“Their sense of place was utopian and each group framed its vision in light of its own narrow vision of the past, often in blatantly self-serving terms…”
- Matthew Klingle
Check out this article written about an exhibit I curated at the Spurlock Museum of World Cultures here in Urbana-Champaign! ipmnewsroom.org/rainbow-refl...
‘Rainbow Reflections’ makes LGBTQ+ history tangible in the Spurlock Museum’s first-ever Pride exhibit - IPM Newsroom
The exhibit, curated by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Ph.D. student Dale Mize, features a collection of objects representing queer history from Champaign-Urbana and around the world.
ipmnewsroom.org
June 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Check out this article written about an exhibit I curated at the Spurlock Museum of World Cultures here in Urbana-Champaign! ipmnewsroom.org/rainbow-refl...
#4
“Quitobaquito, then, is a lasagna of landscapes, one layered atop another.”
- Jared Orsi
“Quitobaquito, then, is a lasagna of landscapes, one layered atop another.”
- Jared Orsi
June 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
#4
“Quitobaquito, then, is a lasagna of landscapes, one layered atop another.”
- Jared Orsi
“Quitobaquito, then, is a lasagna of landscapes, one layered atop another.”
- Jared Orsi
Had a great time presenting at Ag History in St. Paul this week! Already looking forward to next year!
June 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Had a great time presenting at Ag History in St. Paul this week! Already looking forward to next year!
#3
Complicated feelings about this one; though I enjoyed Mabel O. Wilson’s chapter titled “Race, Reason, and the Architecture of Jefferson’s Virginia Statehouse.”
“Her experience was shaped far more by the landscape of slavery than by the architecture of democracy.”
- Louis P. Nelson
Complicated feelings about this one; though I enjoyed Mabel O. Wilson’s chapter titled “Race, Reason, and the Architecture of Jefferson’s Virginia Statehouse.”
“Her experience was shaped far more by the landscape of slavery than by the architecture of democracy.”
- Louis P. Nelson
June 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
#3
Complicated feelings about this one; though I enjoyed Mabel O. Wilson’s chapter titled “Race, Reason, and the Architecture of Jefferson’s Virginia Statehouse.”
“Her experience was shaped far more by the landscape of slavery than by the architecture of democracy.”
- Louis P. Nelson
Complicated feelings about this one; though I enjoyed Mabel O. Wilson’s chapter titled “Race, Reason, and the Architecture of Jefferson’s Virginia Statehouse.”
“Her experience was shaped far more by the landscape of slavery than by the architecture of democracy.”
- Louis P. Nelson
Prelim Book #2 of the summer:
“The realization that mahogany supplies were finite encouraged a ‘wild west’ mentality throughout the circum-Caribbean as people hastened to seize a one-time bounty.”
- Jennifer Anderson
“The realization that mahogany supplies were finite encouraged a ‘wild west’ mentality throughout the circum-Caribbean as people hastened to seize a one-time bounty.”
- Jennifer Anderson
May 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Prelim Book #2 of the summer:
“The realization that mahogany supplies were finite encouraged a ‘wild west’ mentality throughout the circum-Caribbean as people hastened to seize a one-time bounty.”
- Jennifer Anderson
“The realization that mahogany supplies were finite encouraged a ‘wild west’ mentality throughout the circum-Caribbean as people hastened to seize a one-time bounty.”
- Jennifer Anderson
In an effort to give me some motivation as I read for prelims I’m going to try and remember to post books as I finish them with an accompanying favorite quote:
“With each successive act of settling in an underdeveloped forest, homeowners destroy some portion of what they desire.”
- Lincoln Bramwell
“With each successive act of settling in an underdeveloped forest, homeowners destroy some portion of what they desire.”
- Lincoln Bramwell
May 28, 2025 at 3:10 AM
In an effort to give me some motivation as I read for prelims I’m going to try and remember to post books as I finish them with an accompanying favorite quote:
“With each successive act of settling in an underdeveloped forest, homeowners destroy some portion of what they desire.”
- Lincoln Bramwell
“With each successive act of settling in an underdeveloped forest, homeowners destroy some portion of what they desire.”
- Lincoln Bramwell
Spent this week in the mountains sharing my current project and hearing about the work that my colleagues are doing too. The hikes were amazing, and so were the conversations.
I came away excited to work on reading for prelims and beginning to write this summer!
I came away excited to work on reading for prelims and beginning to write this summer!
May 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Spent this week in the mountains sharing my current project and hearing about the work that my colleagues are doing too. The hikes were amazing, and so were the conversations.
I came away excited to work on reading for prelims and beginning to write this summer!
I came away excited to work on reading for prelims and beginning to write this summer!