Gwendolyn听Lockman
Greening a Copper City: Recreation, Reclamation, and Resilience in Butte, Montana, 1876-2022
Gwendolyn Lockman is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin). Her dissertation, 鈥淕reening a Copper City: Parks, Mining, and Community in Butte, Montana, 1876-2022,鈥 uses municipal parks to analyze the historic tensions between industrial resource extraction and urban development, governance, and citizenship. Gwen earned her MA in History from the UT Austin in 2020, and her BA in American Studies, with minors in History and Government, from Georgetown University in 2016. Gwen is a 2022-2023 Junior Fellow in Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C. Her work has appeared in听the Washington Post,听Metropole:听the听official blog of the Urban History听Association, and UT听Austin History鈥檚 digital public history magazine听Not Even Past.听For more, follow Gwen on Twitter @gwen_lockman or visit听.