Kerri Clement


Assistant Professor of History

Lindquist Hall 266
801-626-6706

Research & Teaching Areas

  • American West 
  • North American Environmental History
  • Indigenous History 

Degrees

  • PhD in History, University of Colorado, Boulder (2021)
  • MA in History, Montana State University (2016)
  • BA in History Education/Social Studies Broadfield, Montana State University (2011)

Courses

  • HIST 1700 American Civilization
  • HIST 3010 History of Indigenous America
  • HIST 41230 History of Utah

Biography

Kerri Clement is an assistant professor of history with research expertise in the history of the American West, Indigenous history, and environmental history. Her current book project focuses on bison, borders, and bacteria in Montana, the Crow Reservation, and Yellowstone.

She joined the history department at Weber in the fall of 2024. Previously, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher on a collaborative energy justice project at Montana State University and as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Idaho.

Publications

Kerri Keller Clement, "Livestock Disease and State PowerThe State Veterinarian and the Livestock Sanitary Board in Montana, 1884–1917", Montana The Magazine of Western History, Spring 2024, Vol. 74, no. 1. 

Kerri Keller Clement, “What is a country without horses?”Robert Yellowtail and Horse Herd Restoration on the Crow Reservation, 1934–1944 Montana The Magazine of Western History, Autumn 2020, Vol. 70, no. 3, Winner, 2020 Emerging Scholars Contest and Vivian A. Paladin editors award.

Connor, Dylan Shane, Myron P. Gutmann, Angela R. Cunningham, Kerri Keller Clement, and Stefan Leyk. 2019. “How Entrenched Is the Spatial Structure of Inequality in Cities? Evidence from the Integration of Census and Housing Data for Denver from 1940 to 2016.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers 110 (4): 1022–39. doi:10.1080/24694452.2019.1667218.