Teagan Johnson-Moore

Teagan is a doctoral student in the Department of History, focusing on water policy, law, and morethanhuman ideology in the western United States during the twentieth century. Originally from Lyons, Colorado, her interest lies in understanding water relationships, reciprocity, and sovereignty in spaces of extraction driven by colonial policy and practice. Outside of academia, she was a junior national kayak slalom athlete (2013-2017) for the American Canoe Association with a background in whitewater canoeing, rafting, and kayaking, and is presently a L4-certified whitewater kayak instructor, all inspiring her graduate career topics of research. Her previous research at the University of Chicago under Anthropologist Teresa Montoya through the Masters of Arts in Perspectives of Social Science (MAPSS) degree focused on water allocation rights and sovereignty for the Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Ute tribes of Southern Colorado. She studied European History at the University of Colorado Boulder, receiving her Bachelors of Arts in History with two certificates in 2022. Her goal inside and outside academia is to be an advocate for water in arid spaces through experiential learning and thought.  For more information, please contact tjohnsonmoore@arizona.edu