Jen Rose Smith, PhD

Thank you elspeth 💕

Thanks, Maya 💕

Cover of Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race & Indigeneity in the Arctic. The cover features an abstract art piece by Darcie Bernhardt. The piece is titled Beluga Hunting and depicts a light pink, green, and blue marbled pattern. Forked green and white lines within the pattern evoke topographic striations.

Congratulations to Jen Rose Smith @sprucehen.bsky.social, whose book "Ice Geographies" has been named a co-winner of the On the Brinck Award, given by the University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning @unm_saap. bit.ly/4aGYo7K buff.ly/eXBh6OO

Thanks, Jodi! 🤗 congrats on your new book!

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Excited to share that my book was chosen among 3 wonderful others for the University of New Mexico School of Planning and Architecture 2025 On the Brinck Award and Lecture Series!

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so great to visit with @hiokinai.bsky.social for @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social! thanks for making time.
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These eager beavers saved the Czech government $1.2 million After plans stalled for a new dam in the Czech Republic, eight beavers saved the day seemingly overnight. “At this point, nothing that beavers do surprises me.”

2025 was mostly garbage, but there were some good moments.

One of my favorites was when a family of beavers built a dam in just a few days, saving the Czech Republic 30 million Czech koruna (US$1.2 million) for a wetland restoration project the government had been planning for 7 years. 🦫 🌿

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so happy to have this conversation with ever brilliant chrystel oloukoï for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

thank you for sharing!

thanks, Joe!! big hugs

thanks for featuring my new book!
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The Art and Genius of Lorna Simpson A new at the Metropolitan Museum of Art tracks what has changed and what has remained the same in the artist’s work.

Throughout a career that has spanned nearly four decades and encompasses photography, conceptual practices, collage, sculpture, and now painting, Lorna Simpson has created works of art that resist quick and easy reads.

what a beautiful cover, @jmcmaster29.bsky.social !

Took a break from #4S2025 to visit Elliott Bay Books. It’s always fun to see @dukepress.bsky.social books out in the wild! 🧊🔥

Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race & Indigeneity in the Arctic Published in The AAG Review of Books (Ahead of Print, 2025)

so moved by this review of my book -- AwA'ahdah for this careful engaged read of my work!
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A historic black and white photograph of the 'Harriman' glacier with mountains in the distance.

New in Transactions:

'Edward Curtis & the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899: Thinking beyond the portrait for land and landscape' by @sprucehen.bsky.social

This paper analyses the career of photographer Edward Curtis & his relationship with naturalist George Bird Grinnell

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thank you so much! : )

this Transactions piece had been in the slow cooker for many years I'm so glad that it's out!

thanks, Maya!

AwA'ahdah, Jimmy!!! so good to hear from you I hope things are going well on your end 💟

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Cover of Jen Rose Smith's Ice Geographies book, featuring blue, white, and pink swirls (detail from artist Darcie Bernhardt's Beluga Hunting.

Really excited to start reading @sprucehen.bsky.social 's new book 'Ice Geographies'! From reading the prologue I can tell this is exactly the kind of narrative I hope to see more of in the coming years - and I'm sure this book'll help achieve that :) Plus the cover art is wonderful!

wow thanks so much! I love the cover art, too. it's by Darcie Bernhardt I linked their website and you can find them on instagram @ouiyaghasiak if you want to support their practice! your work sounds so fascinating, can't wait to read what you've got up on your website.

What looks like an amazing book by a brilliant Indigenous scholar is on sale through the link below (and blurbed by the greats @hiokinai.bsky.social Hi'i Hobart and @brdemuth.bsky.social Bathsheba Demuth). Arctic governance and colonial administration are the most fascinating topics!

thanks so much for sharing!

Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic

hi if you're trying to buy my book while Duke Press is transitioning to a new distribution warehouse, you can find it at the link below, thanks for your interest! it will be available again through DUP after July 7th. folks in canada you can also buy it through the university of toronto press

Cover of Jen Rose Smith’s book Ice Geographies

Yesterday was an extremely good mail day — perfect timing as it was official pub day for @sprucehen.bsky.social ‘s gorgeous new book 💕❄️🎉
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