I am an interdisciplinary historian of the United States and the world who specializes in environmental history and political economy. My current book project, The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power, examines how the overtly insular U.S. Department of the Interior spearheaded mineral pursuits beyond borders and across an array of disparate zones--indigenous lands, formal U.S. territories, the global South, the ocean floor, and even outer space. In the process, the Interior Department forged powerful linkages between U.S. settler colonialism and U.S. global Reach. In Spring 2017, I will teach the conference course Global Things, American Dreams in the History Department, which uses “stuff” as a lens through which to understand the relationship between the United States and the wider world and between society and the non-human environment.