ACADEMIC WRITING

America’s Love-Hate Relationship to Wilderness

In 2002, PBS produced a six-part reality show called Frontier House, in which 3 families are whisked back to 1883 Montana to live like...

Creating through Crisis: First Things First, Revisited (Again)

Peer reviewed and accepted in AIGA Design Educators Community Summit Proceedings: "SHIFT 2020" Since the 1964 publication of the original...

Spot Crooks By Their Ears & Other Tall Tales

European colonialism is one of the most recent examples of imperialism — one in a long line of empires throughout human history. All the...

Science, Knowledge, & Power

Today, I went down a Foucaultian rabbit hole. Foucault's work has been mentioned repeatedly in the work of travel writing critics (and...

Women’s Travel is Women’s Freedom

Ideological frameworks are all around us, influencing us, and determining the ways in which we move around in the world. According to...

Domination Isn’t Destiny

Texts, or discourses, according to cultural critic David Spurr (1993), tell stories that justify and allow colonization to become...

Bonding Over Food (Sometimes)

The Menu Travel and travel writing are sometimes narrowly defined, especially in the context of bookstore genres. Entire shelves full of...

Street Art Hunting: Instagram & the Gamification of Creative Placemaking

Published 2019: User Experience & Urban Creativity Scientific Journal, open access 1. Introduction I move around a lot, so I know well...