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Education

May 2023 Ph.D. University of Oregon, History    

Dissertation: “Seafloor Machina: Aging Technologies in the Depths of the Pacific Ocean.”

May 2013 M.A. Colorado State University, History

May 2010 B.A. University of Kansas, History, Phi Beta Kappa


Positions

2021-Present Donald M. Kerr Curator of Natural History, High Desert Museum, Bend, Oregon

2020-2021 Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Writing Fellow, Center for Environmental Futures, University of Oregon

2019-2020 Research Assistant in the History of Oregon’s Public Lands, Center for Environmental Futures, University of Oregon

2017-2019 Program Coordinator, Digital Humanities Initiative, University of Oregon

2017-2018 Research Assistant, Funded by a National Science Foundation Grant  

“Collaborative Research: The Impact of Oceanic Forcing on the Melting of West Antarctic Peninsula Glaciers,” Grant in Polar Programs, Antarctic Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, 2016-2019 (grantees Mark Carey, University of Oregon; David Sutherland, University of Oregon; Carlos Moffat, University of California, Santa Cruz; John M. Klinck, Old Dominion University; Michael Dinniman, Old Dominion University).

2016-2017 Research Assistant, Funded by a National Science Foundation Grant

“CAREER: Glaciers and Glaciology: How Nature, Field Research, and Societal Forces Shape the Earth Sciences,” Grant in Science, Technology, and Society, 2013-2018 (grantee Mark Carey, University of Oregon).

2012- 2015 Researcher, Public Lands History Center, Colorado State University


Peer-Reviewed Publications

Hayley Brazier and Mark Carey, “Environmental History, the History of Science, and the History of the Polar Regions,” The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions, eds. Adrian Howkins and Peder Roberts

Hayley Brazier, “Disease, Disaster, and the Internet: Reconceptualizing Environmental Hazards in the Time of Coronavirus,” Journal of Environmental Media 1 (Aug. 2020)

•Katherine Huber and Hayley Brazier, “Teaching the Ocean: Literature and History in the Study of the Sea,” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment (ISLE) (Oct. 2020)

Hayley Brazier, “Practicing in Place: The Environmental History Retreat,” Environmental History, Field Note, April 2016.


Fellowships, Grants, & Awards

2021 Joan Cahalin Robinson Prize, Society for the History of Technology

2020 National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research and Improvement Grant, Science and Technology Studies

2020 American Meteorological Society Graduate Fellowship in the History of Science (Declined)

2020 Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Center for Environmental Futures, University of Oregon

2020 Lemelson Center, Travel to Collections Award, Smithsonian Institution

2019 Graduate Research Fellowship, Wayne Morse Center, University of Oregon

2019 John L. and Naomi Luvaas Graduate Fellowship, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon

2019 Richard D. Brown Summer Research Award, Department of History, University of Oregon

2019 Graduate Research Support Fellowship, Oregon Humanities Center, University of Oregon

2018 Travel Grant, Forum Transregionale Studien Berlin, Transregional Academy, “Histories of Migrants Knowledges In and Across the Transpacific: Agencies, Scales, and Translations,” UC Berkeley

2018 Environmental Studies Department Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grant, University of Oregon (Grantees: Hayley Brazier; Holly Moulton; Dr. Mark Carey; Dr. David Sutherland)

2018 Richard D. Brown Summer Research Award, Department of History, University of Oregon

2017 ENHANCE School in the Public Environmental Humanities, Travel Grant, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

2017 Digital Humanities Summer Institute Tuition Scholarship, Univ. of Victoria

2017 Mini-Travel Grant, Department of History, University of Oregon

2016 Gary E. Smith Summer Professional Development Award, University of Oregon

2015 W. Turrentine Jackson Fellowship, the University of California Davis (Declined)

2015 Presidential Fellowship, Montana State University (Declined)

2012 Harry Rosenberg Scholarship Award for Academic Excellence in Western American History, Colorado State University

2010 History Honors Thesis Excellence Award, University of Kansas

2010 University Honors Program Graduate, University of Kansas

2010 History Departmental Honors, University of Kansas

2008 Melissa Evans Study Abroad Scholarship, University of Kansas

2008 Honors Program Developmental Grant, University of Kansas

2008 Office of Study Abroad Scholarship, University of Kansas


Public-Facing Writing

Brazier, “Of Cables and Serpents,” Smithsonian Voices, March 21, 2023.

Brazier, “An Ode to Ooze,” Items, Social Science Research Council, March 2021.

Brazier, The Farmers’ Reservoir and Irrigation Company, 1902-1979. Grey Paper. The Public Lands History Center, 2015.

Brazier, Exhibit Review, Willamette Heritage Center, “Annual Heritage Invitational Exhibit: Nature and Community,” Willamette Valley Voices, April 2017.

Brazier, “GIS for the Digital Humanities,” The Digital Dissertator, December 2016.

Brazier, “Dr. Everett V. Richardson, 1924-2013,” Newsletter of the Colorado Water Institute, Colorado State University, vol. 30, no. 6, December 2013.


Media Interviews & Appearances

2024 KLCC, NPR for Oregonians, “High Desert Museum welcomes exhibit depicting an unusual 1920’s Oregon company town”

2024 Central Oregon Daily News, “High Desert Museum exhibit tells story of once-thriving timber town Maxville

2023 Travel Oregon, “Art, Wildlife and Conservation Converge at the High Desert Museum”

2023 KPIC, “High Desert Museum to Showcase New Exhibit Featuring Wolves”

2023 KTVZ “High Desert Museum opens ‘Endangered in the High Desert’ Exhibit”

2023 Central Oregon Daily, “The Great Outdoors: Under the Snow”

2023 Bend Bulletin, “Learn how to save the snow and the species that depend on it”

2022 Central Oregon Daily, “The future of Bend’s light pollution; seeing stars a thing of the past?”

2022 KTVZ, “New High Desert Museum exhibit explores shelter in a changing world”

2022 California’s Eroding Coastline Podcast, “Connecting to your coastal network”


Teaching Experience

Instructor of Record/ Sole Instructor:

•“History of the National Parks,” HIST 473 (online course), Summer 2018, University of Oregon

•“Oceans and Society,” Summer 2018, Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, MA

•“Race and Ethnicity in US Environmental History,” HIST 473, Summer 2017, University of Oregon

Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of Oregon:

•Winter 2017: U.S. History II, Building America

•Spring 2017: World Environmental History

•Fall 2016: Modern Germany

•Spring 2016: Vietnam War and the United States

•Winter 2016: Samurai and Film

•Fall 2015: U.S. History I

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Colorado State University

•Spring 2013: History of the United States Since 1876

•Fall 2012: History of the United States Since 1876

•Spring 2012: History of the United States to 1876

•Fall 2011: History of the United States Since 1876


Conferences & Presentations

2023 “Restoring Native Plants in Central Oregon’s Historic Cemeteries,” Oregon Commission on Historic Cemeteries, Online.

2022 “Under the Sea with Historic Oregon Newspapers,” University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, Oregon.

2021 “Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Public Perception and the Visibility of Seafloor Technologies,” Society for the History of Technology/ History of Science Society, Online.

2021  “Cables, Clutter, and the Coastal Ocean Bottom,” Western Historical Association, Portland, Oregon.

2021 “A Journey to the Pacific Seafloor,” Center for Environmental Futures, Eugene, Oregon

2020 “Undersea Cables, Groundfish, and the Territorial Dance for Oregon’s Coastal Seabed,” American Society for Environmental History, Ottawa (canceled due to COVID-19).

2020 Ways of Water Workshop, Social Science Research Council, Arizona State University.

2019    “Illustrating the Seafloor: Visualizing History at the Bottom of the Pacific,” invited participant, Forum Transregionale Studien, UC Berkeley.

2018    “Changing Ice at the Poles: Ramifications for Legal and Social Boundaries,” POLAR2018, SCAR/IASC, Davos, Switzerland. Travel supported by NSF grant #1253779.

2018    “Ice and the Ocean: Re-Envisioning the Difference Between Land and Sea,” Poster Presentation, American Society for Environmental History, Riverside, CA. Research supported by NSF grant #1253779.

2018    “Introduction to Podcasting,” co-presenter, DH@UO Workshop Series, Univ. of Oregon.

2013    “The Battle Over the Farakka Barrage: Bangladesh, India, and a Global Technocracy,” Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Colorado.

2013    “The Farmer’s Reservoir and Irrigation Company Project: Writing History for the Public,” WEST Network Conference, Pingree Park, Colorado.


Public History Experience

Winter 2021Under the Sea with Historic Oregon Newspapers,” Knight Library, University of Oregon

Summer 2020 Cultural Landscapes Intern, Redwoods National Park (canceled due to COVID-19)

Spring 2019 Exhibit and Research Intern, Lane County History Museum, Eugene, Oregon

July 2016 Historic Preservation Consultant, Juneau Icefield Research Program, Juneau, Alaska

2013 Molly Brown House Museum Artifact Cleaning Workshop, Denver, Colorado

2012  National Park Service and the United States Forest Service Oral History Workshop, Colorado State University

2012  Intern, City of Fort Collins Historic Preservation Office, CO

2010- 2011  Curatorial Intern, Museum of the Kansas National Guard, Topeka, KS

2008- 2010 Assistant, Art & Design Gallery, Lawrence, University of Kansas

2008 Intern, Kansas State Historical Society, Constitution Hall, Lecompton, KS


Book Reviews

•Review of New Zealand and the Sea: Historical Perspectives, edited by Frances Steel, Environmental History 24, no. 4 (Oct. 2019).

•Review of Speaking for the River: Confronting Pollution on the Willamette, 1920s-1970s by James V. Hillegas-Elting, Pacific Northwest Quarterly 110, no. 1 (Winter 2018/2019).

•Review of Cattle Colonialism: An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai’i by John Ryan Fischer, Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association 3, no. 2 (2016).


Digital Training

Microsoft Office Suite; WordPress; Omeka; Adobe Suite; ArcGIS; StoryMapJS; TimelineJS; Camtasia; Google Maps; Google Drive; Audacity; video editing software; YouTube; Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; Zotero; Canva; Slack; HTML

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