Don Unger
LecturerHumanities Courses Taught
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Don Unger is a historian whose work moves between classrooms, archives, and the land itself. A PhD candidate at the University of Arizona (PhD to be defended August 2025) , he studies environmental history and Indigenous sovereignty, with a focus on the enduring impacts of uranium mining on the Navajo Nation. Don earned his MA in history from the UCCS in 2019, and he began his doctoral studies in 2020. His research, conducted in collaboration with the Navajo Nation’s Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Department (Navajo AML), reflects a commitment to scholarship that is both rigorous and responsible. Whether in a seminar room or a mining site, Don’s work asks us to ponder: how histories are told, who tells them, and what is at stake in the telling?