Writing Westward Podcast
Conversations with writers and scholars of the North American West, hosted and produced by Prof. Brenden W. Rensink for the BYU Charles Redd Center for Western Studies
Episodes
A conversation with historian Elsa Devienne about their book, Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Elsa Devienne is Assistant Professor of History at Northumbria University.
A conversation with journalist Jonathan Bach their book, "High Desert, Higher Costs: Bend and the Housing Crisis in the American West"
(Oregon State University Press, 2025).
A conversation with historian David-James Gonzales about their book, Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation: Mexican American Grassroots Politics and Civil Rights in Orange Country, California
(Oxford University Press, 2025).
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A conversation with author George Frazier about their book "Riverine Dreams: Away to the Glorious and Forgotten Grassland Rivers of America" (University of Chicago Press, 2025).
George Frazier is Assistant Professor of C...
A conversation with literary scholar Sara Gallagher about their book
Black Wests: Reshaping Race and Place in Popular Culture
(University of Oklahoma Press, 2025)
Sara Gallagher is Professor o...
A conversation with historian Martha A. Sandweiss about their book The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West (Princeton University Press, 2025).
Martha A. Sandweiss is Professor Emerita of History from Princeton University. A historian of the American West and photography in particular, Sandweiss is the recipient of i...
A conversation with Neil Mathison about their book Airstream Country: A Geologic Journey Across the American West (University of New Mexico Press, 2025)
Neil Mathison is an award-winning author based out of the Pacific Northwest. In addition to essays published in a wide variety of outlets, he is the author of two books:
A conversation with Mark Sundeen about their book Delusions + Grandeur: Dreamers of the New West (University of New Mexico Press, 2025)
Mark Sundeen is an award-winning novelist, essayist, and Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Montana. In a...
A conversation with Ernesto Sagas about their book Latino Colorado: The Struggle for Equality in the Centennial State (University Press of Colorado, 2025)
Ernesto Sagás is Professor of Ethnic Studies at Colorado State University. He is the author of an enormous body of scholarship, including articles and ...
A conversation with historian Adam M. Sowards about their weekly Taking Bearing essays series, "Being Historically Faithful in Public" article, and broader work in public writing.
Dr. Adam Sowards is an environmental historian and writer, specializing in public lands and conservation in the US West especially the Pacific Northwest. Much of his public writings can be accessed at adamsowards.net. Dr. S...
A conversation with historian Robert Sullivan about their book
Resurveying the West with Timothy O'Sullivan, America's Most Mysterious War Photographer
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A conversation with historian Jason Heppler about their book
Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism
(University of Okla...
A conversation with historian Coll Thrush about their book
Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific
(University of Washington Press, 2025)
Coll Thrush is Professor of History and associate faculty in Critical Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia. He earned a B.A. from Fairhaven College at Western W...
A conversation with scholar William Grady about their book
Redrawing the Western: A History of American Comics and the Mythic West
(University of Texas Press, 2024)
Dr. William Grady is an independent scholar and library based in the United Kingdom in Manc...
A conversation with urban planner and architectural historian James Michael Buckley about their book
San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry
(University of Texas Press, 2024)
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A conversation with historian Amanda Van Lanen about their book
The Washington Apple: Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture
(University of Oklahoma Press, 2022).
Amanda L. Van Lanen is Professor of History and Humanities Division Chair a...
A conversation with historian John William Nelson about their book,
Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent
(University of North Carolina Press, 2023)
John William Nelson is assistant professor of history at Texas Tech University...
A conversation with journalist, author, and poet Samuel Western about his book,
The Spirit of 1889: Restoring the Lost Promise of the High Plains and Northern Rockies
(University Press of Kansas, 2024)
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A conversation with historian James Tejani about their book
A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth:
The Making of the Port of Los Angeles—and America
(W. W. Norton, 2024)
James Tejani is associate professor of history at California Polytechnic Stat...
A conversation with historian Holly Miowak Guise about her book, Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II (University of Washington Press, Indigenous Confluences Series, 2024).
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