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Education
Ph.D. University of Oregon, Environmental History
M.A. Colorado State University, Public History
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
Academic Publications
• Brazier, “Seafloor Machina: Aging Technologies in the Depths of the Pacific Ocean,” PhD diss. (University of Oregon, 2023).
• 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
• Brazier, “Disease, Disaster, and the Internet: Reconceptualizing Environmental Hazards in the Time of Coronavirus,” Journal of Environmental Media 1 (Aug. 2020)
• Katherine Huber and Brazier, “Teaching the Ocean: Literature and History in the Study of the Sea,” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment (ISLE) (Oct. 2020)
• Brazier, “Practicing in Place: The Environmental History Retreat,” Environmental History, Field Note, April 2016.
• Brazier, The Farmers’ Reservoir and Irrigation Company, 1902-1979. Grey Paper. The Public Lands History Center, 2015.
Public-Facing Publications
• “Are Meta, Google, and Amazon the Sea Monsters of Oregon’s Coastline?,” Zócalo Public Square, June 2024.
• “Of Cables and Serpents,” Smithsonian Voices, March 21, 2023.
• “A Secret Habitat Under the Snow,” Legacy Magazine, National Association for Interpretation, January/February 2023.
• “An Ode to Ooze,” Items, Social Science Research Council, March 2021.
• “Dr. Everett V. Richardson, 1924-2013,” Newsletter of the Colorado Water Institute, Colorado State University, vol. 30, no. 6, December 2013.
Exhibits
Lead Curator & Writer:
• Endangered in the High Desert, High Desert Museum
• Forest at Night, High Desert Museum
• Under the Snow, High Desert Museum
• Vanishing Night: Conserving Dark Skies in the High Desert, High Desert Museum
• Under the Sea with Historic Oregon Newspapers, University of Oregon, Knight Library
Co-Curator & Co-Writer:
• Sensing Sasquatch, High Desert Museum
• Andy Warhol’s Endangered Species, High Desert Museum
• Near, Far, Gone, High Desert Museum
Traveling Exhibits Managed:
• Wolves: Photography by Ronan Donovan, National Geographic Society
• Timber Culture, Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center
• Survival Architecture and the Art of Resilience, Art Works for Change
Fellowships, Grants, & Awards
2023 World History Association Dissertation Prize, Honorable Mention
2021 Joan Cahalin Robinson Prize, Society for the History of Technology
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
Media Interviews & Appearances
2024 Jefferson Public Radio, “An immersion in writing and in nature: Lost in Place.”
2024 KLCC, NPR for Oregonians, “High Desert Museum welcomes exhibit depicting an unusual 1920’s Oregon company town.”
2024 Jefferson Public Radio, “Black Logging History.”
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
2024 “Building Empathy: Connecting Families to Stories of Climate Change,” American Society for Environmental History, Denver, Colorado.
2024 “Earth, Water, and Fire: Public History and Climate in the Mountain West,” Roundtable, National Council for Public History, Salt Lake City, Utah.
2023 “From Wolves to Whitebark Pine: Fifty Years of the Endangered Species Act,” High Desert Museum, Bend, Oregon.
2023 “The Art of Storytelling,” Pacific Northwest Clean Water Association, Bend, Oregon.
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 2021 “Under 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 The Mediated Climate: How Journalists, Big Tech, and Activists Are Vying for Our Future by Adrienne Russel, H-Environment (May 2024).
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
