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Jen Rose Smith, PhD

@sprucehen.bsky.social
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associate prof of geography & Native studies. author of Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race & Indigeneity in the Arctic www.dukeupress.edu/ice-geographies

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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
From our September newsletter: Mireille Roddier, on air-conditioning and the distribution of comfort; Linda Quiquivix, on the limits of North America; and Jen Rose Smith, on the tale of a blind man and a loon.
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Metabolic Rifts. Imaginary Mexico. Arctic Storytelling.
On air conditioning and the distribution of comfort; the limits of North America; and the tale of a blind man and a loon.
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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
this is such a beautiful piece!
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Estelle Slegers Helsen - Photography @esh-photography.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Both territory and language have been shaped by river, slough, and glacier as well as by human movement among those relations." Blind Man and Loon: placesjournal.org/article/blin... a story by Jen Rose Smith @sprucehen.bsky.social published in @placesjournal.bsky.social
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Blind Man and Loon
A tale shared by Native peoples across the circumpolar Arctic reveals the elusive nature of language, and has come to shape many Native connections to place.
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Maya Weeks, Ph.D. @mayaweeks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"I am more interested in discussing the story as it has emerged across a diversity of Native territories in which this story finds a home, travels, and has travelled." @sprucehen.bsky.social @placesjournal.bsky.social
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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A tale shared by Native peoples across the circumpolar Arctic tells of a blind man who, with the aid of a loon, kills a woman he feels has wronged him. @sprucehen.bsky.social writes about the elusive nature of language, and the intricacies of a story that's been passed down orally for generations.
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Blind Man and Loon
A tale shared by Native peoples across the circumpolar Arctic reveals the elusive nature of language, and has come to shape many Native connections to place.
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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This essay by my friend Jen, @sprucehen.bsky.social is about the elusive nature of language and much more. You really need to read it!
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“I find myself in the middle of translation, of overlapping colonial and anticolonial projects, as well as the learning of new/old languages. The Blind Man and the Loon illuminates the labors of language and the promise of story” A @sprucehen.bsky.social stunner placesjournal.org/article/blin...
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Blind Man and Loon
A tale shared by Native peoples across the circumpolar Arctic reveals the elusive nature of language, and has come to shape many Native connections to place.
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Jen Rose Smith, PhD @sprucehen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
happy to share an essay I wrote called "Blind Man and Loon"
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Congratulations to Jen Rose Smith @sprucehen.bsky.social, whose book "Ice Geographies" has been named the winner of the 2026 Ludwik Fleck Prize, given by the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social. buff.ly/vyNjalQ buff.ly/3BvdxDg
Cover of Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race & Indigeneity in the Arctic. The cover features an abstract art piece by Darcie Bernhardt. The piece is titled Beluga Hunting and depicts a light pink, green, and blue marbled pattern. Forked green and white lines within the pattern evoke topographic striations.
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Jen Rose Smith, PhD @sprucehen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
you can buy my book for 40% off! www.dukeupress.edu/ice-geograph...
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Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
We're excited to see the addition of a new Little Free Library near our offices in Brightleaf Square in Durham! Thanks, Kate Bowler! We just added some titles from our Native and Indigenous Studies Collection. Learn more about the collection, available to institutions and libraries: buff.ly/tbkJk2f
Wooden Little Free Library shelf displaying four colorful academic books. Two upright on top, two stacked below, featuring themes of climate, indigeneity, and environment.
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Jen Rose Smith, PhD @sprucehen.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
So happy to share my book was chosen for the 2026 Outstanding Book Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology by CAPE specialty group! AwA'ahdah! See the other award winners here: capeaag.wordpress.com/cape-awards/
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CAPE Awards
For deadlines and application/nomination guidelines, please see individual award descriptions. 2026 Award Winners Dr. James McCarthy (Clark University) was awarded the 2026 Cultural and Political E…
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Congratulations to Jen Rose Smith @sprucehen.bsky.social, whose book "Ice Geographies" has been named a co-winner of the On the Brinck Award, given by the University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning @unm_saap. bit.ly/4aGYo7K buff.ly/eXBh6OO
Cover of Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race & Indigeneity in the Arctic. The cover features an abstract art piece by Darcie Bernhardt. The piece is titled Beluga Hunting and depicts a light pink, green, and blue marbled pattern. Forked green and white lines within the pattern evoke topographic striations.
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Jen Rose Smith, PhD @sprucehen.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Excited to share that my book was chosen among 3 wonderful others for the University of New Mexico School of Planning and Architecture 2025 On the Brinck Award and Lecture Series! saap.unm.edu/programs-of-...
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On The Brinck :: School of Architecture and Planning | The University of New Mexico
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Jen Rose Smith, PhD @sprucehen.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
so great to visit with @hiokinai.bsky.social for @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social! thanks for making time. @dukepress.bsky.social
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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
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. 🦫 🌿
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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.”
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Jen Rose Smith, PhD @sprucehen.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
so happy to have this conversation with ever brilliant chrystel oloukoï for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
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Jen Rose Smith, PhD @sprucehen.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
thanks for featuring my new book! @dukepress.bsky.social
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 18/08/2025
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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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.
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Courtney Berger @ccberg.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Took a break from #4S2025 to visit Elliott Bay Books. It’s always fun to see @dukepress.bsky.social books out in the wild! 🧊🔥
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Jen Rose Smith, PhD @sprucehen.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
so moved by this review of my book -- AwA'ahdah for this careful engaged read of my work! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race & Indigeneity in the Arctic
Published in The AAG Review of Books (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
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...
A historic black and white photograph of the 'Harriman' glacier with mountains in the distance.
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Jen Rose Smith, PhD @sprucehen.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
this Transactions piece had been in the slow cooker for many years I'm so glad that it's out!
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Floris Winckel @fwinckel.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
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!
Cover of Jen Rose Smith's Ice Geographies book, featuring blue, white, and pink swirls (detail from artist Darcie Bernhardt's Beluga Hunting.
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Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
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!
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Jen Rose Smith, PhD @sprucehen.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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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Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic
The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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
Cover of Jen Rose Smith’s book Ice Geographies
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
One of our new and exciting titles out this May is "Ice Geographies" by Jen Rose Smith @sprucehen.bsky.social . #EnvironmentalStudies #Geography buff.ly/BWX6cDK
Cover of Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race & Indigeneity in the Arctic. The cover features an abstract art piece by Darcie Bernhardt. The piece is titled Beluga Hunting and depicts a light pink, green, and blue marbled pattern. Forked green and white lines within the pattern evoke topographic striations.
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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
1980 commemorative PRC postal stamp celebrating 70 years of IWD. Image is an etching of Clara Zetkin
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/02/2025
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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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.
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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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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.
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Tania @taniahc.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
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.
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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...
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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
'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...
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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.
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Jen Rose Smith, PhD @sprucehen.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
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...
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Circumpolar Connections – Wesleyan University Press
Creative visions of Arctic geography from Indigenous perspectivesGrounded in the spatiality of Indigenous existence, Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indige...
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J.T. Roane @jtroane.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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-...
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The Climate Is Changing. How Should the Liberal Arts Respond?
“Students ask us, ‘What can we do?’”
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Jen Rose Smith, PhD @sprucehen.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
“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!
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Proxies for Justice
The climate history of tropical regions has been chronically understudied. Correcting the record will require new methods and new mindsets.
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 10/12/2024
Here’s a great overview of the phenomenal Nikki Giovanni. Truly a legend. 💔
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Nikki Giovanni
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Once again tapping - no, *pounding* the "support local, independent, worker-run newsrooms" sign
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Seattle City Councilmember Bob Kettle just proposed legislation to repeal the restrictions on police use of "less-lethal" crowd control weapons like blast balls and tear gas. seattle.legistar.com/LegislationD...
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SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL - Record No: CB 120916 home page icon
Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to the Seattle Police Department; mandating that the Police Department adopt and maintain crowd management policies that prohibit the use of less lethal tools in crowd man...
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Jen Rose Smith, PhD @sprucehen.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I wrote an essay for the Teaching Arctic Environments project organized by @issygapp.bsky.social thanks for the opportunity to think with this map. Check it out if you want to read my attempt at critical cartography 🤓 www.teachingarcticenvironments.com/seriesone/ma...
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Mapping Alaska Native Land and Language — Teaching Arctic Environments
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
in 2021, when the eviction moratorium was lifted, at least 238 federal lawmakers were also landlords
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
Honored to be one of the 3 women highlighted, and the portraits are stunning !!! www.hcn.org/issues/56.1/...
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How 3 Indigenous women are leading the way on climate change
These experts bring knowledge and justice to the climate conversation.
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Jen Rose Smith, PhD @sprucehen.bsky.social · 04/01/2024
Incredible, inspiring 🌟
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An Alaska Native mutual aid network tackles the climate crisis
The Smokehouse Collective invests in “our resilience as Native peoples to persevere in our cultures despite the global impacts we are facing.”
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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
Ever wonder about the history of the Arctic, North Pacific, and Japan’s invasion of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska from an Indigenous perspective? Available for pre-order now! Oral history centered: 🗃️ uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
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Alaska Native Resilience
The US government justified its World War II occupation of Alaska as a defense against Japan’s invasion of the Aleutian Islands, but it equally served to a...
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