Working where knowledge, institutions, and public life meet.
My work brings the humanities into the practical challenges of climate change, disinformation, emerging technology, and public trust.
Director, Texas Tech Climate Center
Professor of Humanities and Literature, Texas Tech Honors College
Former Director, Southern Historical Collection, UNC–Chapel Hill · 2025 Fulbright U.S. Scholar
My Books
My books cross literature, environmental humanities, information systems, and public life. Recent and forthcoming work examines Cormac McCarthy’s engagement with science, how misinformation takes hold in communities, the machinery of Russian influence operations, and what negative theology might teach us about knowledge in an age of AI. Together, these projects reflect a longstanding concern with how people make meaning—and build trust—when established ways of knowing come under pressure.
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My Current Projects
A documentary about the lost apples of Texas. Overcoming divisive information. Responsible AI for all ages. A campus-wide sustainability initiative. My current work joins climate communication, information integrity, and the public humanities. I lead the Texas Tech Climate Center and Creating Livable Futures; co-lead a Spencer-supported AI-literacy initiative; study contested information during emergencies; and explore attention, discernment, and intellectual humility in an age of AI.
Gracious support for a life of wonder
My projects and fellowships have received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the U.S. Department of State and American Alliance of Museums, National Geographic, the Spencer Foundation, Fulbright, and other partners.
Wild imagination
Curiosity and creativity are the through-lines of my work. My career has crossed literature, law, information science, archives, wetland restoration, and public life. I am most at home where fields meet—and where institutions need new language, new partnerships, or more durable forms of trust.
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