1. Utility Sector Structure as a Poorly Understood Factor in U.S. State-Level Renewable Energy Policy Design • Joshua Basseches, Tulane University.

2. Value, Values, and Valuation: The Political Ecology of Environmental Stewardship in Montana’s Northern Great Plains • John Canfield, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

3. Black Troops and the Rise of Cotton Monoculture in the Postbellum U.S. South: 1865-1880 • Hyunku Kwon, University of Chicago.

4. The Appalachian Regional Commission and the Consolidation of the Coal Consensus • Gabriel Levesque, Department of Sociology, McGill University.