Jacob Swisher

Ph.D. Candidate, University of Notre Dame

Jacob Swisher is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is an historian of the North American Southwest with interests in environmental history, borderlands, commodities, and the Anthropocene. His current work focuses on the dynamic relationship between people, animals, exchange networks, and the environmental history of the Upper Rio Grande Basin.

You can find his work in Montana the Magazine of Western History and Current Research in Digital History.

If you are interested in collaborating with Jacob, please contact him at jswisher@nd.edu.

Education

• ABD, History
  University of Notre Dame

• M.A., History
  Colorado State University

• B.A., History
  Montana State University