Jen Rose Smith, PhD
@sprucehen.bsky.social
assistant prof of geography & Native studies. author of Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race & Indigeneity in the Arctic
so great to visit with @hiokinai.bsky.social for @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social! thanks for making time.
@dukepress.bsky.social
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Today on the Edge Effects podcast, we're so excited to welcome back Jen Rose Smith (@sprucehen.bsky.social) and Hi'ielie Julia Hobart to discuss Jen's new book: Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic. 🧊❄️
The Colonial Politics of Arctic Landscapes
Jen Rose Smith talks about her new book, Ice Geographies, and the racial and colonial politics of Arctic landscapes.
edgeeffects.net
January 28, 2026 at 11:04 PM
so great to visit with @hiokinai.bsky.social for @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social! thanks for making time.
@dukepress.bsky.social
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2025 was mostly garbage, but there were some good moments.
One of my favorites was when a family of beavers built a dam in just a few days, saving the Czech Republic 30 million Czech koruna (US$1.2 million) for a wetland restoration project the government had been planning for 7 years. 🦫 🌿
One of my favorites was when a family of beavers built a dam in just a few days, saving the Czech Republic 30 million Czech koruna (US$1.2 million) for a wetland restoration project the government had been planning for 7 years. 🦫 🌿
These eager beavers saved the Czech government $1.2 million
After plans stalled for a new dam in the Czech Republic, eight beavers saved the day seemingly overnight. “At this point, nothing that beavers do surprises me.”
www.nationalgeographic.com
January 4, 2026 at 7:04 PM
2025 was mostly garbage, but there were some good moments.
One of my favorites was when a family of beavers built a dam in just a few days, saving the Czech Republic 30 million Czech koruna (US$1.2 million) for a wetland restoration project the government had been planning for 7 years. 🦫 🌿
One of my favorites was when a family of beavers built a dam in just a few days, saving the Czech Republic 30 million Czech koruna (US$1.2 million) for a wetland restoration project the government had been planning for 7 years. 🦫 🌿
so happy to have this conversation with ever brilliant chrystel oloukoï for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
Jen Rose Smith, Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic - @dukepress.bsky.social, May 2025
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@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Chrystel Oloukoi.
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@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Chrystel Oloukoi.
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Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic
www.dukeupress.edu
October 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
so happy to have this conversation with ever brilliant chrystel oloukoï for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
thanks for featuring my new book!
@dukepress.bsky.social
@dukepress.bsky.social
Today we are highlighting @sprucehen.bsky.social's new book, Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race & Indigeneity in the Arctic ( @dukepress.bsky.social 2025)
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#envhist #geography #books #ice #arctic
New Book - Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race & Indigeneity in the Arctic
Ice Geographies examines Arctic colonial politics, emphasizing ice as racialized geography, Indigenous knowledge, slowness, and questioning certainty in research practices.
niche-canada.org
September 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
thanks for featuring my new book!
@dukepress.bsky.social
@dukepress.bsky.social
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Throughout a career that has spanned nearly four decades and encompasses photography, conceptual practices, collage, sculpture, and now painting, Lorna Simpson has created works of art that resist quick and easy reads.
The Art and Genius of Lorna Simpson
A new at the Metropolitan Museum of Art tracks what has changed and what has remained the same in the artist’s work.
www.thenation.com
August 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Throughout a career that has spanned nearly four decades and encompasses photography, conceptual practices, collage, sculpture, and now painting, Lorna Simpson has created works of art that resist quick and easy reads.
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Took a break from #4S2025 to visit Elliott Bay Books. It’s always fun to see @dukepress.bsky.social books out in the wild! 🧊🔥
September 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Took a break from #4S2025 to visit Elliott Bay Books. It’s always fun to see @dukepress.bsky.social books out in the wild! 🧊🔥
so moved by this review of my book -- AwA'ahdah for this careful engaged read of my work!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race & Indigeneity in the Arctic
Published in The AAG Review of Books (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
August 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
so moved by this review of my book -- AwA'ahdah for this careful engaged read of my work!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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New in Transactions:
'Edward Curtis & the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899: Thinking beyond the portrait for land and landscape' by @sprucehen.bsky.social
This paper analyses the career of photographer Edward Curtis & his relationship with naturalist George Bird Grinnell
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
'Edward Curtis & the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899: Thinking beyond the portrait for land and landscape' by @sprucehen.bsky.social
This paper analyses the career of photographer Edward Curtis & his relationship with naturalist George Bird Grinnell
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
August 1, 2025 at 9:45 AM
New in Transactions:
'Edward Curtis & the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899: Thinking beyond the portrait for land and landscape' by @sprucehen.bsky.social
This paper analyses the career of photographer Edward Curtis & his relationship with naturalist George Bird Grinnell
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
'Edward Curtis & the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899: Thinking beyond the portrait for land and landscape' by @sprucehen.bsky.social
This paper analyses the career of photographer Edward Curtis & his relationship with naturalist George Bird Grinnell
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
this Transactions piece had been in the slow cooker for many years I'm so glad that it's out!
This looks fascinating - excited to check out more of Smith's work! Her recent paper from Transactions also looks excellent: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
July 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this Transactions piece had been in the slow cooker for many years I'm so glad that it's out!
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Really excited to start reading @sprucehen.bsky.social 's new book 'Ice Geographies'! From reading the prologue I can tell this is exactly the kind of narrative I hope to see more of in the coming years - and I'm sure this book'll help achieve that :) Plus the cover art is wonderful!
July 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Really excited to start reading @sprucehen.bsky.social 's new book 'Ice Geographies'! From reading the prologue I can tell this is exactly the kind of narrative I hope to see more of in the coming years - and I'm sure this book'll help achieve that :) Plus the cover art is wonderful!
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What looks like an amazing book by a brilliant Indigenous scholar is on sale through the link below (and blurbed by the greats @hiokinai.bsky.social Hi'i Hobart and @brdemuth.bsky.social Bathsheba Demuth). Arctic governance and colonial administration are the most fascinating topics!
hi if you're trying to buy my book while Duke Press is transitioning to a new distribution warehouse, you can find it at the link below, thanks for your interest! it will be available again through DUP after July 7th. folks in canada you can also buy it through the university of toronto press
Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic
The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic
bookshop.org
July 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
What looks like an amazing book by a brilliant Indigenous scholar is on sale through the link below (and blurbed by the greats @hiokinai.bsky.social Hi'i Hobart and @brdemuth.bsky.social Bathsheba Demuth). Arctic governance and colonial administration are the most fascinating topics!
hi if you're trying to buy my book while Duke Press is transitioning to a new distribution warehouse, you can find it at the link below, thanks for your interest! it will be available again through DUP after July 7th. folks in canada you can also buy it through the university of toronto press
Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic
The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic
bookshop.org
June 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
hi if you're trying to buy my book while Duke Press is transitioning to a new distribution warehouse, you can find it at the link below, thanks for your interest! it will be available again through DUP after July 7th. folks in canada you can also buy it through the university of toronto press
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Yesterday was an extremely good mail day — perfect timing as it was official pub day for @sprucehen.bsky.social ‘s gorgeous new book 💕❄️🎉
#envhist #envhum
#envhist #envhum
May 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Yesterday was an extremely good mail day — perfect timing as it was official pub day for @sprucehen.bsky.social ‘s gorgeous new book 💕❄️🎉
#envhist #envhum
#envhist #envhum
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One of our new and exciting titles out this May is "Ice Geographies" by Jen Rose Smith @sprucehen.bsky.social . #EnvironmentalStudies #Geography
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May 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
One of our new and exciting titles out this May is "Ice Geographies" by Jen Rose Smith @sprucehen.bsky.social . #EnvironmentalStudies #Geography
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I always wish we were hit with fewer athleisure ads and celebrated more loudly the proper origins of #InternationalWomensDay: that March 8 is for explicitly acknowledging women's labor, both in the home and in the workplace—and in solidarity with labor movements around the world.
#三八 #國際勞動婦女節 #IWD
#三八 #國際勞動婦女節 #IWD
March 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I always wish we were hit with fewer athleisure ads and celebrated more loudly the proper origins of #InternationalWomensDay: that March 8 is for explicitly acknowledging women's labor, both in the home and in the workplace—and in solidarity with labor movements around the world.
#三八 #國際勞動婦女節 #IWD
#三八 #國際勞動婦女節 #IWD
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From @theathletic.bsky.social: The Department of Education has rescinded Title IX guidance that stated NIL payments must be proportionate between a university’s male and female athletes. nyti.ms/40Z3Z4i
Department of Education rescinds Title IX guidance that NIL payments must be proportionate
How Title IX would factor into schools' revenue-sharing decisions has been a lingering question.
nyti.ms
February 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
From @theathletic.bsky.social: The Department of Education has rescinded Title IX guidance that stated NIL payments must be proportionate between a university’s male and female athletes. nyti.ms/40Z3Z4i
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In 2018, Google introduced policies that excluded applying AI to weapons, surveillance, and technologies that “cause or are likely to cause overall harm.” Now that promise is gone. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance
Google changed its public AI policies to remove assertions that it would not develop AI applied to surveillance or weapons.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
In 2018, Google introduced policies that excluded applying AI to weapons, surveillance, and technologies that “cause or are likely to cause overall harm.” Now that promise is gone. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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READ AND FUND INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM and NEWSLETTERS h/t @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social.
My personal favorites? @phillewis.bsky.social and @atrupar.com newsletters, @19thnews.org @propublica.org, and @motherjones.com.
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My personal favorites? @phillewis.bsky.social and @atrupar.com newsletters, @19thnews.org @propublica.org, and @motherjones.com.
bsky.app/starter-pack...
January 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
READ AND FUND INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM and NEWSLETTERS h/t @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social.
My personal favorites? @phillewis.bsky.social and @atrupar.com newsletters, @19thnews.org @propublica.org, and @motherjones.com.
bsky.app/starter-pack...
My personal favorites? @phillewis.bsky.social and @atrupar.com newsletters, @19thnews.org @propublica.org, and @motherjones.com.
bsky.app/starter-pack...
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All my lit nerds, poetry nerds, SF nerds (yes, there’s poetry about Star Trek in here) and Alaska nerds - @akwenstrup.bsky.social has a book coming out this spring!
I’m ridiculously excited. We know I’m excitable as anything anyway, but this is REALLY exciting. She is a wonderful writer & human.
I’m ridiculously excited. We know I’m excitable as anything anyway, but this is REALLY exciting. She is a wonderful writer & human.
The Museum of Unnatural Histories a book by Annie Wenstrup
Archiving stories of dissonance and curating connection inside the imagined museumThis extraordinary debut poetry collection by Dena'ina poet Annie Wenstrup delicately parses personal history in the s...
bookshop.org
January 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
All my lit nerds, poetry nerds, SF nerds (yes, there’s poetry about Star Trek in here) and Alaska nerds - @akwenstrup.bsky.social has a book coming out this spring!
I’m ridiculously excited. We know I’m excitable as anything anyway, but this is REALLY exciting. She is a wonderful writer & human.
I’m ridiculously excited. We know I’m excitable as anything anyway, but this is REALLY exciting. She is a wonderful writer & human.
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'Cultural burns and river restoration aren't just Indigenous issues—they're California's solutions.' A Karuk perspective on wildfires, dam removal and the urgent need for Indigenous knowledge in creating climate solutions. nativenewsonline.net/opinion/cali...
California Wildfires and Climate Solutions: A Klamath River Perspective
A Karuk tribal member explains how Indigenous fire management and river restoration practices offer solutions for California's environmental challenges.
nativenewsonline.net
January 13, 2025 at 1:55 AM
'Cultural burns and river restoration aren't just Indigenous issues—they're California's solutions.' A Karuk perspective on wildfires, dam removal and the urgent need for Indigenous knowledge in creating climate solutions. nativenewsonline.net/opinion/cali...
I am so pleased and heartened to have been included in this collection of Indigenous geographical visionaries of the Arctic, broadly conceived. Please consider purchasing a copy!
www.weslpress.org/978081950189...
www.weslpress.org/978081950189...
Circumpolar Connections – Wesleyan University Press
Creative visions of Arctic geography from Indigenous perspectivesGrounded in the spatiality of Indigenous existence, Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indige...
www.weslpress.org
January 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I am so pleased and heartened to have been included in this collection of Indigenous geographical visionaries of the Arctic, broadly conceived. Please consider purchasing a copy!
www.weslpress.org/978081950189...
www.weslpress.org/978081950189...
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THE CLIMATE IS CHANGING. HOW SHOULD THE LIBERAL ARTS RESPOND?
BY ANA ISABEL KEILSON, JUSTIN REYNOLDS, BRYAN GARSTEN, HI‘ILEI JULIA KAWEHIPUAAKAHAOPULANI HOBART (KANAKA MAOLI), GREGORY MARKS, STEPHANIE PFIRMAN, & J. T. ROANE www.publicbooks.org/the-climate-...
BY ANA ISABEL KEILSON, JUSTIN REYNOLDS, BRYAN GARSTEN, HI‘ILEI JULIA KAWEHIPUAAKAHAOPULANI HOBART (KANAKA MAOLI), GREGORY MARKS, STEPHANIE PFIRMAN, & J. T. ROANE www.publicbooks.org/the-climate-...
The Climate Is Changing. How Should the Liberal Arts Respond?
“Students ask us, ‘What can we do?’”
www.publicbooks.org
December 18, 2024 at 6:20 PM
THE CLIMATE IS CHANGING. HOW SHOULD THE LIBERAL ARTS RESPOND?
BY ANA ISABEL KEILSON, JUSTIN REYNOLDS, BRYAN GARSTEN, HI‘ILEI JULIA KAWEHIPUAAKAHAOPULANI HOBART (KANAKA MAOLI), GREGORY MARKS, STEPHANIE PFIRMAN, & J. T. ROANE www.publicbooks.org/the-climate-...
BY ANA ISABEL KEILSON, JUSTIN REYNOLDS, BRYAN GARSTEN, HI‘ILEI JULIA KAWEHIPUAAKAHAOPULANI HOBART (KANAKA MAOLI), GREGORY MARKS, STEPHANIE PFIRMAN, & J. T. ROANE www.publicbooks.org/the-climate-...
“Until now, much of the temperature proxy data from this epoch have come from marine sediments or terrestrial archives from middle or high latitudes, but little has been known about how temperature changed in the tropics.”
This is a great piece I wish I had it before I wrote my ice core chapter!
This is a great piece I wish I had it before I wrote my ice core chapter!
Proxies for Justice
The climate history of tropical regions has been chronically understudied. Correcting the record will require new methods and new mindsets.
www.sciencehistory.org
December 11, 2024 at 2:50 AM
“Until now, much of the temperature proxy data from this epoch have come from marine sediments or terrestrial archives from middle or high latitudes, but little has been known about how temperature changed in the tropics.”
This is a great piece I wish I had it before I wrote my ice core chapter!
This is a great piece I wish I had it before I wrote my ice core chapter!
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Here’s a great overview of the phenomenal Nikki Giovanni. Truly a legend. 💔
Nikki Giovanni
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
www.poetryfoundation.org
December 10, 2024 at 3:00 AM
Here’s a great overview of the phenomenal Nikki Giovanni. Truly a legend. 💔