Writing Westward Podcast

Writing Westward features conversations with writers of the North American West, sampling from a variety of disciplines and subfields. The podcast is hosted and produced by BYU Redd Center associate director and professor of history, Brenden W. Rensink.

Writing Westward Podcast is a history podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 89 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Writing Westward Podcast, a history show with 89 episodes published.

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  Episode #89

  089 - Emilie Connolly - Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Disposession in the United States

  Aug 3, 20261h 15m

  A conversation with historian Emilie Connolly about their book, Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Disposession in the United States (Princeton University Press, 2025). Emilie Connolly is Assistant Professor of History at Yale University. Vested Interests has been recognized with the following awards and honors: Bancroft Prize in American History James A. Rawley Award from the Organization of American Historians Stuart L. Bernath Best First Book Award from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Finalist, Hagley Prize in Business History ----more---- The Writing Westward Podcast is produced and hosted by Prof. Brenden W. Rensink for the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University. Subscribe to the Writing Westward Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play, and other podcast distribution apps and platforms. Follow the BYU Redd Center and the Writing Westward Podcast on Facebook, Bluesky, or get more information @ https://www.writingwestward.org. Theme music by Micah Dahl Anderson @ www.micahdahlanderson.com

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  Episode #87

  087 - Elsa Devienne - Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles

  Jun 1, 20261h 8m

  A conversation with historian Elsa Devienne about their book, Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles (Oxford University Press, 2024) Elsa Devienne is Assistant Professor of History at Northumbria University. Sand Rush was originally published in French by Éditions de la Sorbonne in 2020 as La ruée vers le sable: Une histoire environnementale des plages de Los Angeles au XXe siècle . Along with numerous articles, Devienne is also co-editor or co-author of: Le chemin, la rive et l’usine : Faire de l’histoire environnementale avec Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud (Paris: Presses des Mines, 2023). D’Après nature: Frederick Law Olmsted et le park movement américain (Pari : Éditions Fahrenheit, 2014). Below are links to an article and two podcast episodes that Devienne mentions towards the end of this episode: “Making Plastics Count: Citizen Science Beach Cleanups and the Ocean Plastic Pollution Crisis (1980s-2020s),” Environmental History, 30, no 4(October 2025): 646-673. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/737351 "Early Heroines of Plastic Pollution, Part I: Meet the Women who Started the Beach Cleanups (Judie)," Plastisphere Podcast, 2025. https://soundcloud.com/plastisphere-podcast/coastal-cleanup-judie?in=plastisphere-podcast/sets/changemakers "Early Heroines of Plastic Pollution, Part I: Meet the Women who Started the Beach Cleanups (Linda)," Plastisphere Podcast, 2025. https://soundcloud.com/plastisphere-podcast/coastal-cleanup-linda?in=plastisphere-podcast/sets/changemakers ----more---- The Writing Westward Podcast is produced and hosted by Prof. Brenden W. Rensink for the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University. Subscribe to the Writing Westward Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play, and other podcast distribution apps and platforms. Follow the BYU Redd Center and the Writing Westward Podcast on Facebook, Bluesky, or get more information @ https://www.writingwestward.org. Theme music by Micah Dahl Anderson @ www.micahdahlanderson.com

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  Episode #86

  086 - Jonathan Bach - High Desert, Higher Costs

  May 8, 20261h 11m

  A conversation with journalist Jonathan Bach their book, " High Desert, Higher Costs: Bend and the Housing Crisis in the American West " (Oregon State University Press, 2025). Jonathan Bach is a journalist and staff reporter covering housing and commercial real estate for The Oregonian/OregonLive.com. ----more---- The Writing Westward Podcast is produced and hosted by Prof. Brenden W. Rensink for the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University. Subscribe to the Writing Westward Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play, and other podcast distribution apps and platforms. Follow the BYU Redd Center and the Writing Westward Podcast on Facebook, Bluesky, or get more information @ https://www.writingwestward.org. Theme music by Micah Dahl Anderson @ www.micahdahlanderson.com

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  Episode #85

  085 - David-James Gonzales - Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation

  Apr 3, 20261h 14m

  A conversation with historian David-James Gonzales about their book, Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation: Mexican American Grassroots Politics and Civil Rights in Orange Country, California (Oxford University Press, 2025). David-James Gonzales is Assistant Professor of History at Brigham Young University. He holds a BA in History from the University of California - San Diego, and n M.A. and Ph.D in History from the University of Southern California. ----more---- The Writing Westward Podcast is produced and hosted by Prof. Brenden W. Rensink for the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University. Subscribe to the Writing Westward Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play, and other podcast distribution apps and platforms. Follow the BYU Redd Center and the Writing Westward Podcast on Facebook, Bluesky, or get more information @ https://www.writingwestward.org. Theme music by Micah Dahl Anderson @ www.micahdahlanderson.com

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  Episode #84

  084 - George Frazier - Riverine Dreams: Away to the Glorious and Forgotten Grassland Rivers of America

  Mar 1, 20261h 7m

  A conversation with author George Frazier about their book " Riverine Dreams: Away to the Glorious and Forgotten Grassland Rivers of America " (University of Chicago Press, 2025). George Frazier is Assistant Professor of Computer Information Science at Washburn University in Topeka Kansas. His previous book, The Last Wild Places of Kansas: Journeys into Hidden Landscapes (University of Kansas Press, 2017) won the Ferguson Kansas History Book Award from the Kansas Authors Club, the Hamlin Garland Prize in Popular History from the Midwestern History Association, a Midwest Book Award from the Midwest Independent Publishers Association, and was named a Kansas Notable Book by the State Library of Kansas' Center for the Book. ----more---- The Writing Westward Podcast is produced and hosted by Prof. Brenden W. Rensink for the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University. Subscribe to the Writing Westward Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play, and other podcast distribution apps and platforms. Follow the BYU Redd Center and the Writing Westward Podcast on Facebook, Bluesky, or get more information @ https://www.writingwestward.org. Theme music by Micah Dahl Anderson @ www.micahdahlanderson.com

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