Natasha Varner

Natasha Varner is a historian and independent journalist whose essays and reporting have appeared in Electric Literature, The Nation, Atlas Obscura, PRI’s The World, Jacobin, and The Abusable Past. She has a PhD in history and her first book, “La Raza Cosmética: Beauty, Identity, and Settler Colonialism in Postrevolutionary Mexico” (University of Arizona Press, 2020), was a finalist for the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association’s Best First Book Award in 2021. Her current book project, “White Plague: Tuberculosis and the Settlement of the Haunted American West,” focuses on health seeking, haunting, settler colonialism, and the many ways that the past continues to trouble the present. In addition to her book project, she is currently working on a narrative journalism article about the Amache concentration camp as an Us@250 Fellow with New America. See more of her work at www.natashavarner.com.