WGS Graduate Secondary Field alum Rebecca Scofield's first book, Outriders: Rodeo at the Fringes of the American West, will be released by the University of Washington Press in October 2019. “Outriders explores the histories of rodeoers at the margins of society, from female bronc-riders in the 1910s and 1920s and prisoner cowboys in Texas in the mid-twentieth century to all-black rodeos in the 1960s and 1970s and gay rodeoers in the late twentieth century. These rodeo riders not only widened the definition of the real American cowboy but also, at times, reinforced the persistent and exclusionary idea of an idealized western identity.”

Scofield (Ph.D., American Studies '15 ) is an Assistant Professor of twentieth century American history at the University of Idaho. She curates the Gay Rodeo Oral History Project, gathering vital information about how gay men and women have built a vibrant community and experienced rodeo over the past forty years. The interviews from this project are featured on the website The Voices of Gay Rodeo.