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Come join us on various Wednesdays this Spring semester for the History Lunch Lecture Symposium. We will gather in Chávez 406a to learn more about our colleagues' scholarship. Additional details will be posted here a week before the event.
Open to the University community!
For those of you who are unable to attend in person, please use the following Zoom link: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/82733203379
Lecture topic: Oral History, Atomic Memories, and Radical Care for Researchers
Abstract: In this talk Don will present his most recent fieldwork as a postdoctoral fellow and lead oral historian working in alliance with the Mormon Pioneer National Heritage Area, The Great Basin Heritage Area Partnership and the American Conservation Experience's EPIC program (ACE-EPIC). The project, entitled the Fallout of Fallout: Documenting Rural Experiences in Utah and Nevada has received commendation by the state of Utah in Community Development and historical preservation, and Don seeks to talk not only about the project, but about the ways in which researchers prepare and protect themselves in the field.
Biography: Don Unger is a Mellon Humanities postdoctoral fellow working in alliance with the American Conservation Experience's EPIC program, the Great Basin Heritage Area Partnership, and the Mormon Pioneer National Heritage Area. Don received his PhD in history at the University of Arizona in 2025, and his doctoral research on the history of mining reclamation on the Navajo Nation was generously supported by many grants and fellowships including the Agnese Nelms Haury Native Pathways Fellowship, and the Carson Scholar’s Program. He is currently working as lead oral historian in Utah and Nevada on a project called: The Fallout of Fallout: Documenting Downwinders, where he is tasked to interview surviving downwinders impacted by nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site from 1951 to 1962.