Taylor Rose

Taylor Rose is a historian of the United States specializing in Native American history and the environmental history of the U.S. West. He completed his Ph.D. at Yale University in 2024. He completed his M.A. in history at Portland State University in 2016. Research for his thesis on road-building in Mount Hood National Forest was supported by Oregon State University's Special Collections & Archives Research Center and an Oregon Heritage Fellowship. His dissertation, Mining, Militarization, and Native Lands in the Nevada Desert, 1860–1990, won the Frederick W. Beinecke Prize for outstanding doctoral dissertations in Western American History and was funded in part by an Aerospace History Fellowship, sponsored by NASA and the American Historical Association. He has published articles in Western Historical Quarterly, Los Angeles Times, and AHA Perspectives Daily. He currentlyis an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alaska Southeast.