Erstwhile was a collaborative space for scholars with ties to the History Department at the University of Colorado Boulder. Members of the staff reviewed each post and article before publication. In this way, all members of Erstwhile acted as Contributing Editors in addition to their other roles.

Kerri Keller Clement, Contributing Editor — Kerri completed a Ph.D. in History at CU Boulder, where she studied 20th-century Indigenous Agriculture of Northern Plains Tribes, in particular, ranching and animals on Northern Plains (ish) reservations. Her research interests more broadly include the American West, non-human animals and horses in the American West, digital history, environmental history, Indigenous agricultural history, and National Parks. Originally from Montana, Kerri is a former high school teacher who can be found on the river or ski slopes most weekends. Find her on Twitter @kerri_clement.

Anna Kramer, Contributing Editor — Anna was a Ph.D. student in the department of history at the University of Colorado Boulder. She studied 20th-century U.S. environmental history, with a particular interest in the intersections of public lands, outdoor recreation, and Native Americans. Originally from Cooperstown, New York, she completed her B.A. in Environmental Analysis at Pomona College and worked for the American Alpine Club and the National Wildlife Federation before beginning graduate school. Find her on Twitter @akiltykramer.

Graeme Pente, Managing Editor & Copy Editor — Graeme completed his Ph.D. in History at the University of Colorado Boulder. His dissertation addresses the political contributions of nineteenth-century visionary socialists (usually referred to as “utopian socialists”) and the intersections of idea and practice. You can find his writing at The Activist History Review, the Colorado Encyclopedia, H-Net Reviews, and rabble.ca.

Katie Randall, Contributing Editor — Katie completed a Ph.D. in History at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research interests include gender performances, sexuality, and culture in early twentieth-century Germany, particularly the Weimar Republic. Her dissertation research focuses on cultural projections and presentations of heterosexual masculinity in German magazines and periodicals, as well as film.

Contributing Editors Emeriti

Sam Bock — Sam worked for Erstwhile as a Contributing Editor for three years. He has published in the Journal of the West and the Colorado Encyclopedia. He is a public historian at History Colorado.

Beau Driver — Beau completed his Ph.D. at CU Boulder in 2019. He is currently working on a book manuscript from his dissertation, titled The Worker: Walter Wyckoff and His Experiment in Reality, which examines the life and work of Walter Wyckoff, professor of Economics and Sociology at Princeton University. You can find Beau on Twitter at @DrBeaunus.

Julia Frankenbach — Julia worked as an editor for the blog for two years. She completed her M.A. in American History at CU Boulder in 2017. She continues to research and write about histories of migration and identity across the U.S.-Mexico borderlands with growing interest in Native American history and Indigenous studies. You can find her on Twitter at @JulFrankenbach.

Caroline Grego — Caroline completed her Ph.D. in history at CU Boulder in 2019 and was a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow for the 2018-2019 school year. You can read more of her writing in BC Studies, the Journal of Southern History, the American Historical Review, and at Environmental History Now. Find her on Twitter @CarolineGrego88.

Alessandra La Rocca Link — Alessandra worked as an editor for the blog for four years. She completed a Ph.D. at CU Boulder in Native American history and the history of the American West. She was a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow and a fellow at the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University. You can find her writing in the American Indian Quarterly, the Colorado Encyclopedia, the Courier-Journal, and Inside Higher Ed‘s GradHacker blog. You can find her on Twitter at @AlessandraLink2.

Travis May — Travis completed a Ph.D. in History at the University of Colorado Boulder. His academic interests involve race, culture, and imperialism in early twentieth-century Britain and its overseas empire. His dissertation focuses on British and German efforts to discredit one another as respectable colonial powers by publishing and publicizing atrocity literature, and the responses of colonized peoples to these claims, during and in the immediate aftermath of the First World War.

Sara Porterfield — Sara worked as an editor for the blog for four years and completed a Ph.D. from CU Boulder. Sara also works as a water educator, bringing the history of Western water use to diverse audiences in order to show how the past use of our water shapes the way we value and manage it today and in the future. Her work has been published on Real Clear Politics and The Dirtbag Diaries podcast, and in COLUMBIA: The Magazine of Northwest History, The Canyon Country Zephyr, the Willamette Week, Annals of Wyoming, and H-Net Reviews: H-Environment. You can follow Sara Porterfield on Twitter at @ParadoxofPlace.