The Mountain Stories Podcast
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The Institute for Mountain Research
The Institute for Mountain Research has hosted 23 episodes.
The Institute for Mountain Research provides a hub to coordinate and support interdisciplinary research and learning related to the cultural, economic, scientific and political facets of mountain landscapes and the people who live in them. We encourage deep and abiding interests in the mountains, the people who live in and near them, and the connections between the two. The Institute supports thinking across disciplinary and political boundaries in order to foster conversations about the landscapes that are part of our lives. We strive to serve as a home for exploration, a refuge for reflection and thought, and a forum for community conversation.
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Brent Olson
Brent Olson has hosted 24 episodes.
Brent grew up in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains but didn't really discover a love for the mountains until he spent a year and a half volunteering at a retreat center deep in the North Cascades. Since then he's spent time exploring the Rockies, the Adirondacks, the Central Cascades, the Southern Ghats, the Pyrenees, the Scottish Highlands, and his home mountains, the Wasatch. His research interests include political ecology, resource geography, environmental history, and cultural landscapes. When he's not teaching, reading, or writing, he's likely to be taking photos or exploring the world on a bike or a snowboard.
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Jeff Nichols
Jeff Nichols has hosted 9 episodes.
Jeff Nichols teaches US, Western, and Environmental history at Westminster College.
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Xiumei Pu
Xiumei Pu has hosted 13 episodes.
Xiumei Pu is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Westminster College. She comes from a rural background in China. Her life has been itinerant since she came to the U.S. to pursue graduate studies in 2004 . Prior to moving to Utah, she lived in Georgia, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio. She has lived in Salt Lake Valley for five years so far. The longer she lives here, the more she is mesmerized by the complexities, contradictions, diversity, and beauty that this place holds. Her passion pivots around socio-environmental resilience and wellbeing and intercultural communication and understanding. When she is not working, she enjoys day hikes and snow camping in Big Cottonwood Canyon.
Her teaching and research have been at the confluence of feminist studies and environmental humanities. She is the author of “Turning Weapons into Flowers: Ecospiritual Poetics and Politics of Bön and Ecowomanism,” and other writings on transcultural understanding of gender and the environment. She has collaborated on several publications with Dong Isbister and Stephen Rachman, including Chinese Women Writers on the Environment: A Multi-ethnic Fiction and Nonfiction (2020), “Blurred Centers/Margins: Ethnobotanical Healing in Writings by Ethnic Minority Women in China” (2019), and "(Re) connecting People and the Land: Ecomemory in Environmental Writings by Ethnic Minority Women Writers in China" (2017).
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