Dr. Scott Henkel is the director of the Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research, the Wyoming Excellence
Chair in the Humanities, and associate professor in the departments of English and
African American and Diaspora Studies at the University of Wyoming. He is the author
of Direct Democracy: Collective Power, the Swarm, and the Literatures of the Americas,
which won a C. L. R. James Award for Best Published Book for Academic or General Audiences
from the Working-Class Studies Association in 2018. Dr. Henkel shared his story on
the Wyoming Humanities "What's Your Why?" podcast.