scholarly work

select contributions.  for a full review please contact Aimee.

Book Publications
  • Swenson, Aimee A., “Sheep is Life”: The Navajo, Cultural Genocide, and the Animal as Cultural Property and Historical Witness in American Beasts: Perspectives on Animals, Animality and U.S. Culture, 1776-1920.  Dominik Ohrem (ed.), 2017 pp 201-224.
Chair/Session Organizer
  • Panel Chair. “Constructing Peripherality”, REMOTE: Rethinking Remoteness and Peripherality, Island Dynamics Remote Conference. Longyearbyen, Svalbard. 2017
  • Panel Chair.  Migration with(out) Boundaries Conference, Michigan State University, 2016
  • Session Organizer/Chair. “Situating the Herd: Historical Ontologies of Livestock and Cultural Meaning”. Dimensions of Political Ecology Annual Conference, University of Kentucky, 2016
  • Session Organizer. Section on Animals and Society Refereed Roundtables. American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Seattle, 2016
Conference Paper/Panel Presentations:
      International
  • - Remote Island Cultural Sustainability in a Post-War Context: The Post-Soviet Ruhnu Island (Estonia) as a Model. REMOTE:Rethinking Remoteness and Peripherality, Island Dynamics Remote Conference. Longyearbyen, Svalbard. 2017
  • - A Complicated Identity: Colonization, and the Dynamic Emergence of Cultural Dependence of Sheep in Indigenous Populations in North American Southwest Settlement Areas. Between Apes and Angels: Human and Animal in the Early Modern World, University of Edinburgh. 2014
      National 
  • - Negotiating the Frontier: Female Sheep Shearers and Contested Farm Spaces. Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting, New York, June 2016
  • - Conflict, Genetics, and Representation: Ruhnu Sheep and Cultural Identity. Dimensions of Political Ecology Annual Conference, University of Kentucky, February 2016
  • - Maternal Schism: The Role of Female Farm Workers in the Subjection of Forced Separation of Newborn Dairy Farm Animals for panel “In Consideration of Critters: Human-Animal Entanglements & Imprinted Meanings” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Puerto Rico. 2014  
  • - Reaching a Wider Audience: Disseminating Results in Non-Academic Outlets. Dimensions of Political Ecology Annual Conference, University of Kentucky. February 2014
  • - Make, Stamp, Ship, Receive: Four Years with The Postcard Collective. The Society for Photographic Excellence (SPE) Annual Conference, Baltimore, Maryland. January 2014
  • - Sheep, Petrochemical Industrialization, and The WoolAway Project – Case Study: Faroe Islands. Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA) Annual Conference, University of Notre Dame, October 2013
     Regional 
  • - Shepherds Far Afield: Connectivity and Production from the 'Edge of the World', Shepherds Weekend Symposium, Michigan Sheep Breeders Association, Michigan State University, 2016
Various Presentations, Lectures, and Speaking Invitations
  • - Working with Animals. Theories of Utilitarian Interactions within Animal Studies (recurring)
  • - Introduction to Animal Geographies (recurring) ​
  • - Preparing your future for creative agricultural opportunities, FFA, Miami High school, Miami, AZ, 2015
  • - The Status of International Wool, Arizona Desert Spinners and Weavers Guild, 2013
  • - Artist Talk, Nabbeboda Skola, Olofstrom SWEDEN, 2013
  • - Artist Talk, Fiber Artist Invitational, Arcosanti Arizona, 2013
  • - Artist Talk, Art, the military experience and the DADT policy, Kachina Gallery, Tucson Arizona