006 - Flannery Burke - A Land Apart: The Southwest and the Nation in the 20th Century

A conversation with historian Flannery Burke about her award winning book A Land Apart: The Southwest and the Nation in the Twentieth Century (University of Arizona Press, 2017)

 

 

Flannery Burke is Professor of History at Saint Louis University. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and B.A. in history from Bryn Mawr College. Burke is an historian of the environment, the American West, gender and sexuality, and history education. Her recent book, A Land Apart: The Southwest and the Nation in the Twentieth Century, was published in 2017 by the University of Arizona Press in their Modern American West Series. It won the Spur Award for Best Contemporary Nonfiction from the Western Writers of America and the 2017 Southwest Book of the Year Award. Her previous book, From Greenwich Village to Taos: Primitivism and Place at Mabel Dodge Luhan's was published in 2008 in the University of Kansas Press' Culureamerica Series. It won the Ralph Emerson Twitchell Award from the Historical Society of New Mexico, was a finalist for the New Mexico Book Co-op and New Mexico Humanities Council New Mexico Book Prize.

Podcast Notes:

• Host and Producer Brenden W. Rensink is Assistant Director of the Redd Center, an Assistant Professor of History at BYU, General Editor of the Intermountain Histories project, and author of the 2018 book Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands. Links to other publications and projects here: https://linktr.ee/bwrensink
• Support provided by the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University.
  
• Podcast Music was written and recorded by local Provo composer by Micah Dahl Anderson.
• Episodes are recorded via Skype or in person and amateurishly engineered and produced by Professor Rensink.
• To submit a book to be considered for a podcast episode, email writingwestwardpodcast@byu.edu.