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Gwendolyn Lockman is a PhD student in
U.S. History at the University of Texas at Austin.
She is a historian of U.S. labor and leisure, with interests in work, play, class, community, identity, race, gender, and culture in the 19th and 20^th centuries, particularly in the American West.
Her current research uses park spaces in Butte, Montana, including the Columbia Gardens amusement park (1876-1973) and plans for new parks to come from Superfund cleanup, to investigate the socio-environmental history of mining,
land use, and culture from the 1870s to the present.