Jacey Anderson

Jacey Anderson is an environmental historian who specializes in community-based participatory research methodologies. She earned her Ph.D. in history from Montana State University earlier in 2024. Anderson’s dissertation was a transnational comparative study that examined how farmers and ranchers in southeastern Montana and northeastern El Salvador successfully resisted proposed mining projects in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. She has published book chapters and journal articles in both English and Spanish with Routledge Press, “Revista Realidad” (El Salvador), and “Istmo: Revista de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos” (Nicaragua).

As a trained public historian, Anderson is interested in fostering dialogue between academia and the public by creating spaces for communities to explore their own pasts in order to inform their present. During the two-year fellowship appointment, Anderson will teach two courses per year. One course will be an introduction to oral history methodology and practice, and one will be structured around an oral history project, potentially in partnership with a community organization, cultural institution or history museum.