2024 Utah Award in the Environmental Humanities — Dr. Nick Estes

The University of Utah’s Environmental Humanities Graduate Program will award Dr. Nick Estes, noted historian who focuses on global Indigenous histories, environmental justice and decolonization with the 2024 Utah Award in the Environmental Humanities on October 1, 2024 at 7:30 pm in the University’s Alumni House. After conferring the award, members of the Environmental Humanities Program will engage in a conversation with Estes about the relationships between his work and environmental humanities. The event is free with registration and open to the public.

The Utah Award in the Environmental Humanities celebrates environmental leadership and expression. The award was created to honor those who solve the planet’s environmental problems using humanities tools like creative expression, popular art forms, scholarly research or advocacy. Past recipients of the award have been Amitav Ghosh, Rebecca Solnit, Jonathan Franzen, Aniya Butler, and Greg Sarris.

Nick Estes is an enrolled member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe and is an Assistant Professor in American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota.  He studies colonialism and global Indigenous histories, focusing on decolonization, oral history, U.S. imperialism, environmental justice, anti-capitalism, and the Oceti Sakowin.

Estes is the author of the award-winning book "Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance" (2019), which places the Indigenous-led movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline into historical context. He co-edited with Jaskiran Dhillon "Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement" (2019), which draws together more than thirty contributors, including leaders, scholars, and activists of the Standing Rock movement, for a reflection of Indigenous history and politics and on the movement’s significance.

Details and registration.