ChristianFilbrun

Working Title of Dissertation: Sagebrush Struggle: Environmental Extremism, Collaboration, and Conflict in Nevada, 1980-2000

Christian Filbrun is a PhD candidate and the Senator Harry Reid Fellow at the University of Nevada, Reno. His dissertation, tentatively titled 鈥淪agebrush Struggle: Environmental Extremism, Collaboration, and Conflict in Nevada, 1980-2000,鈥 argues that the environmental ethics of Nevadans following the 1979 Sagebrush Rebellion provides a lens into the broader battles occurring across the American West. "Sagebrush Struggle" utilizes the Harry Reid Papers, a currently听closed and previously unused congressional collection housed in the University of Nevada, Reno鈥檚 Special Collections and University Archives.