Emily Scott is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and former National Park Service ranger. Within and outside of academia, her work explores intersections between art, geography, and the environment. A doctoral candidate in Art History at UCLA, she is currently developing a dissertation on landscape-based art from the 1960s and early 1970s that focuses on the “wasteland” spaces in which it took place. From 2005-2007, she was a Teaching Fellow at the UCLA Institute of the Environment, for which she designed an undergraduate seminar on contemporary art that engages environment-related sciences and politics. In 2007-2008, she will be a Predoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum as well as a Switzer Environmental Fellow.