Danae Jacobson is an Assistant Professor of History at Colby College in Maine, where she teaches courses on religion, the U.S. West, and the environment. A Fulbright Scholar, she received her Ph.D. in Environmental History from the University of Notre Dame in 2019. A historian of religion, empire, gender, and the environment, Jacobson’s first book, Habits of Conquest: Nuns, Labor, and the U.S. Settler Empire, will be published by University of North Carolina Press in 2027. Jacobson’s recent articles have been published in the Western Historical Quarterly, The Pacific Historical Review, and American Catholic Studies, and she was a 2021-2022 New-York Historical Society Public Fellow in Religion & the American West.