Micaela Cruce

Advisor: Professor Andrews • Micaela Cruce is a PhD candidate in the History Department at the University of Colorado Boulder. She graduated summa cum laude with a BA in history (anthropology minor) in 2018 from the University of Colorado Denver. Her scholarly interests include environmental history, critical Indigenous studies, the history of race and racism, other-than-human animal studies, the history of science and technologies, and atomic history. 

Micaela is currently working on her dissertation: Dust to Ashes: Indigenous Ecologies in the Atomic Southwest, 1944-Present. Her research contemplates the embroiled dynamics of U.S. territorial politics, nuclear enterprises, ecological entanglements, and Indigenous sovereignty in the context of the twentieth and twenty-first century Atomic Southwest.