Juliet Cassone Saxton

Juliet is a PhD student in the University of Arizona History department, where they research environmental history, focusing on seed, plant, and animal migrations in the Sonoran Desert and U.S.-Mexican Borderlands. They are interested in the history and production of natural archives such as seed archives, packrat midden storage, tree-ring labs, organic archaeological storage, and so on. Juliet is passionate about public history, community engagement, and co-producing knowledge and systems that work for the community. Juliet has formerly written and edited “Cemamagĭ Du'ag: A Field Guide to Tumamoc Hill” and worked with FOCAS (Faculty Organizing for Community Archives Support) to map community-based archives in North America.