Works (24)
2025 book
2025 chapter
Pushed Into the Margins: Native Women and Environment in Settler California
In T. B. Voyles & M. E. Mendoza (Eds.), Not Just Green, Not Just White: Race, Justice, and Environmental History. (pp. 381–404).
2025 chapter
Settler Ableism: Indigeneity, Unsettling the Archive, and Accountability in History
In J. Barclay & S. Hunt-Kennedy (Eds.), Cripping the Archive: Disability, Power, and History. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press.
Ed(s): J. Barclay & S. Hunt-Kennedy
2024 conference paper
Waste Worlding
Bucknell Humanities Center's Summer Institute. Plenary session presented at the Bucknell Humanities Center's Summer Institute.
Event: Bucknell Humanities Center's Summer Institute
2023 conference paper
Steal this Book: Sparking New Research in Environmental History
American Society for Environmental History. Panel presented at the American Society for Environmental History, Boston, MA.
Event: American Society for Environmental History at Boston, MA
2023 conference paper
The Colorado Compact and its Discontents
American Society for Environmental History. Roundtable presented at the American Society for Environmental History, Boston, MA.
Event: American Society for Environmental History at Boston, MA
2023 conference paper
The Colorado River Compact and its Legacies in the West
The Colorado Compact at 100, University of Texas Institute for Historical Studies. Presented at the University of Texas Institute for Historical Studies.
Event: University of Texas Institute for Historical Studies
2023 article
The Intimacies of Infrastructure: Histories of Exploitation, Labor, and Community Life in Territorial Arizona and Kentucky at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Caldemeyer, D. M., & Voyles, T. B. (2024, September). REGISTER OF THE KENTUCKY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Vol. 121.

2023 journal article
The Laguna Diversion Dam in Arizona: Reconsidering the Dams on the Colorado River, Starting with the First
REGISTER OF THE KENTUCKY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 121(4).
2023 report
The Salton Sea(s)
In Water Talk podcast [Podcast episode interview].
2023 conference paper
The Settler Sea: California’s Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism
Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS), University of California Los Angeles. Presented at the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS), University of California Los Angeles.
Event: Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) at University of California Los Angeles
2023 article
Working across Lines: Resisting Extreme Energy Extraction. By Corrie Grosse
Voyles, T. B., & Grosse, C. (2023, September 6). WESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY, Vol. 9.

2022 conference paper
An Unknown Distance Yet to Run: Infrastructure and Contamination along the Colorado River
Histories of Hydraulic Infrastructures in the United States and the Middle East, American Society for Environmental History, Panel presented at the American Society for Environmental History, Eugene, OR.
Event: American Society for Environmental History at Eugene, OR
2022 magazine article
Connective Tissue
Volyes, T. B. (2022, September). Log 55.
2022 conference paper
Disaster, Recovery, and Capitalism in the Twentieth Century United States
American Society for Environmental History. Panel presented at the American Society for Environmental History, Eugene, OR.
Event: American Society for Environmental History at Eugene, OR
2022 weblog post
How the Salton Sea Came to Be Viewed as a 'Lost Cause'
Volyes, T. B. (2022, June 3). https://www.pbssocal.org/news-community/commentary-how-the-salton-sea-came-to-be-viewed-as-a-lost-cause
2022 conference paper
Natural Childbirth: Towards an Environmental History of Reproduction
Hall Center for the Humanities Nature and Culture Seminar. Presented at the Hall Center for the Humanities Nature and Culture Seminar, University of Kansas.
Event: Hall Center for the Humanities Nature and Culture Seminar at University of Kansas
2022 conference paper
On the March: Removal as the Space of Birth, 1830s-1890s
Western History Association. Presented at the Western History Association, San Antonio, TX.
Event: Western History Association at San Antonio, TX
2022 conference paper
Parted and Parturient: Settler Intrusions, Ableist Apocrypha, and Indigenous Childbirth in Nineteenth Century Removal Campaigns
American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Presented at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Event: American Studies Association Annual Meeting at New Orleans, LA
2022 report
The Settler Sea
In New Books Network [Podcast episode interview]. https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-settler-sea
2022 conference paper
The Settler Sea: California’s Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism
Environmental Humanities Research Initiative. Presented at the Environmental Humanities Research Initiative, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University.
Event: Environmental Humanities Research Initiative at Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University
2022 conference paper
The Settler Sea: California’s Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism
American Deserta? Presented at the American Deserta?, School of Architecture Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois Chicago.
Event: American Deserta? at School of Architecture Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois Chicago
2022 report
Water
In Staying with the Question – OUAH.FM [Podcast episode interview].
2022 weblog post
Why Are Anti-Vaxxers Obsessed With the ‘Natural’?
Volyes, T. B., & Jensen, E. (2022, February 17). https://edgeeffects.net/traci-brynne-voyles-anti-vaccination/
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