Tanner Humanities Center

The Tanner Humanities Center will host  Danielle Endres, professor of communication and director of the University of Utah’s Environmental Humanities program, to discuss her new book, “Nuclear Decolonization: Indigenous Resistance to High-Level Nuclear Waste Siting.” As part of the Author Meets Readers series, Endres will discuss her new book with Logan Gomez, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, at The Obert C. & Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center Jewel Box on Feb. 21, 2024, at 1 p.m.

Endres’s work confronts issues of climate change, energy extraction and human rights violations in the American West. She is an affiliated faculty member in the Global Change and Sustainability Center and the Environmental and Sustainability Studies Program and recently attended the UNFCC COP 28, which she wrote about in an op-ed, “We must stop new fossil fuel development to ensure just energy systems,” in the Salt Lake Tribune.

Her fourth book, “Nuclear Decolonization: Indigenous Resistance to High-Level Nuclear Waste Siting” reveals the harm done to land and people in the process of nuclear development and highlights the resistance methods of Native activists working in response to this settler colonialist violence.

Endres’s work has appeared in the International Journal of Communication, Frontiers in Science and Environmental Communication and the Journal of Applied Communication Research, among others. She is the recipient of the Stephen P. Depoe Book Chapter Award in Environmental Communication, the Critical & Cultural Studies Division, National Communication Association Outstanding Book of the Year Award, and University of Utah’s Faculty Research Award. Her work has been supported by numerous grants and she is widely recognized as a leader in the field of decolonial communication and research methods.

About Danielle Endres

Danielle Endres is a professor in the Department of Communication and Director of the Environmental Humanities Program at the University of Utah. Endres is also an affiliated faculty member in the Global Change and Sustainability Center and the Environmental and Sustainability Studies Program. Her research and teaching expertise lie in environmental rhetoric,  social movement studies, and Indigenous Communication. Endres’s research is guided by environmental and social justice lenses. As a rhetorical theorist and critic, she has examined a variety of historical and contemporary controversies, such as nuclear (de)colonization, energy transition, climate change, Native mascots, and dominant spatial practices. She is also interested in rhetorical methods, particularly the use of ethnography, oral history, interviewing and other participatory approaches in the practice of rhetorical criticism.

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