Search
Nicholas Blower
Nicholas Blower holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Kent, where he taught and lectured on American environmental history, American Studies and western politics from 2014 to 2020. His early research focuses on conservative and Mormon resistance to the emergence of environmentalism in the post-war period, with a geographic focus on California, Utah, Arizona and the wider American Southwest. He has published articles and book chapters on environmental protest photography, the American gas crisis and climate change in the twenty-first-century western. His forthcoming work looks at ecological decline in the digital West, and the gendered rhetoric of mid-century south-western populism, and he is currently moving towards histories that link sport to environmentalism. He is also preparing his first monograph on coal power and environmental reputations in southern Utah for publication. He is a recipient of the University of Kent 50th Anniversary Scholarship and the Christine and Ian Bolt Scholarship.