MA thesis title: “From Wet-footed to Webfooted: Rainfall and the Resettlement of the Pacific Northwest, 1543- 1900.”
Corey is currently a second-year MA student in History at Montana State University, and will graduate in May 2023. A mossback at heart, he grew up in a log home in a patch of second-growth rainforest in rural Clackamas County, Oregon, and received his BA in Political Science and History from Western Washington University in 2021. His research examines the historical agency of rainfall west of the Cascade Mountains in the context of imperial and settler-colonial invasion, and shows that the rhythms of the Pacific Northwest’s prolonged rainy season have powerfully influenced the structural and everyday realities of regional history, society, and culture. He is interested in combining historical research and personal narrative to tell engaging stories about the vibrancy of the living past, and to explore questions of what it might mean to live well in the context of current earth system crises.