Jordan B. Kinder (Métis), Red Natural History Fellow
Jordan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, where he researches and teaches on the cultural politics of energy, media, infrastructure, and environment across the fields of materialist media and communication studies, the energy and environmental humanities, and critical Indigenous studies. His first sole-authored book, Petroturfing: Refining Canadian Oil through Social Media (2024), critically examines how the pro-oil movement in Canada took shape on social media throughout the 2010s in the setting of a handful of proposed, highly contested oil sands pipeline projects. He is currently working on a historical, archive-driven monograph on the media and mediations of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline proposals and inquiry of the 1970s. Jordan grew up in northern British Columbia, Canada and is a citizen of the Otipemisiwak Métis Government (Métis Nation of Alberta).