Daniel Grant received his PhD in Geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2020. He is an environmental historian who works on the racial politics of migration and borderlands in the North American West. At the Mahindra Humanities Center, he will continue work on a book project derived from his dissertation, which recasts the history of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands by focusing on Native American and African American communities who navigated shifting boundaries defined by the Colorado River from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. Three years of archival and oral history research in the United States and Mexico revealed the unique histories of continental migration, alliances, and conflicts that defined each community in relation to the others. This project recalls an era of flux, when boundaries and political loyalties changed with the river’s currents, to reframe the history of settler colonialism in the borderlands as multiple, not binary. His work has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Science Foundation, among others. He holds a BA from Whitman College.