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Caroline Johnston is a Mellon Research Fellow at Christ's College, University of Cambridge, specializing in American history with a focus on political, environmental, and economic themes. Her research examines modern right-wing movements and fossil fuel economies during the late twentieth century. Johnston's book project, tentatively titled "Carbon Cowboys," investigates the Rocky Mountain energy boom from 1973 to 1982, which fostered the development of powerful conservative organizations and ideas. She traces how energy executives in the Rocky Mountains established significant tenets of modern right-wing ideologies, often reflecting the extractive methods used by the industries they represented. Furthermore, Johnston argues that political organizers emerged from the regional oil and coal boom, utilizing cowboy aesthetics to promote carbon consumption within the rising corporatist politics of the right.
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