Nick Koenig

Publications

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS

In-Press, Under Review, & In Preparation

  • In Press:
    • E. James and N. Koenig. Provocations of Tree Ring Narratives: Dendronarratology, Trans Material Narratology, and the Ecology of Narrative. 2026. Narrative.
  • Under Review:
    • N. Koenig, C. Biermann, and R. Lave. Critical Physical Geography: A Decade in Review.
    • In Review: Trans Field Notes Collective: O. Tripp, W. Ross, E. Bergan, N. Koenig, and V. Povilaityte-Petri. Trans Field Notes: a critical observational drawing method towards multispecies ecologies and geographies.
    • Book Review of “Field Guide for Successful Mixed-Methods Environmental Research”
    • Queering Dendrochronology Collective: E. Bergan, N. Koenig, and L. Stachowiack. Enby ecologies: On being fluid in the field
  • In Preparation:
    • What the Fuck is Limbo? Archival Rage and Temporality Tactics in Student Divestiture Activism
    • Chestnut Epistemologies: Emotional Political Ecologies of the American Chestnut’s Extinction in Applachia
    • Act Like You Live Here: Data Sonification of Global Average Temperature as a Jazz Standard
    • Navigating a Sense of Place in Landscapes of Crisis: Critical Pedagogies in a Student-Driven Classroom
    • Hydroclimatic Coherence and Elevation Tradeoffs in Pinus flexilis Growth Across the Greater Yellowstone Region since 750 CE

2026

  • Geography Zine Organizing Network, W. Sharp, W. Ross, N. Koenig, P. Kunjan, and R. Baker. Mischief, care, and heterotopia: Reflections on the potentials of zines in geography’s spaces. 2026. cultural geographies.

2025

  • N. Koenig. Climate Futures from the Inside: Incarcerated Writers Challenging Status Quo Climate Realities Through Fiction. Inaugural Issue of Resilient Dimension. 2025. (Creative Writing Book from Incarcerated Students at the University of Idaho).
  • Sharp, W., S. Fogel, E. Kinkaid, and N. Koenig. Resisting Gender Fascism. 2025 The Geographical Review.
  • Queering Feminist Geography Collective: E. Kinkaid, S. Fogel, V. Ting, N. Koenig, K. Emard, R. Rush-Morgan, A.E. Hicks, A. B. Kandlakunta, C.C. Myles-Baltzly, M. Jakubchik-Paloheimo, I. Nelson, H. Davis, A. Danze, L. Naylor, T.-K. Bui, L. E. Eaves, and C. Chennault. 2025. “Queering Feminist Geography I: Queer and trans inclusion, exclusion, and belonging” Gender, Place, & Culture.
  • Queering Feminist Geography Collective: E. Kinkaid, W. Sharp, S. Fogel, A. B. Kandlakunta, G. Kirk, L. Naylor, L. E. Eaves, N. Koenig, and I. Nelson. 2025. “Queering Feminist Geography II: Trans-exclusionary feminisms” Gender, Place, & Culture. 
  • Queering Feminist Geography Collective: E. Kinkaid, N. Koenig, C. Diamant, A. Bandagi Kandlakunta, R. Rush-Morgan, K. Emard, L. E. Eaves, C. C. Myles-Baltzly, W. Sharp, J. Wagner, M. Silverman-Rodríguez, J. Langill, A. Marie Ranjbar, T.-K. Bui, A. Danze, H. Davis, I. Nelson, L. Naylor, N. Deondre Smiles. 2025 “Queering feminist geography III: calling all allies and accomplices” Gender, Place, & Culture.
  • Queering Feminist Geography Collective: E. Kinkaid, N. Koenig, A. Bandagi Kandlakunta, W. Sharp, A. E. Hicks, D. Moore, T.-K. Bui, A. Danze, K. Emard, J. Langill, L. Naylor, C. Wöelfle-Hazard, K. Strauss, C. Chennault, L. E. Eaves, I. Nelson, J. Wagner, L. Fritzsche, N. Deondre Smiles & R. Rush Morgan. 2025. “Queering feminist geography IV: toward queer and trans-feminist coalition” Gender, Place, & Culture

2024

  • Koenig, N., and E. James. “I Was Born!”: Personal Experience Narratives and Tree-Ring Marker Years.” Philosophies 9.6 (2024): 166.
  • Ruhfel, B. R., D. A. Larson, N. Koenig, R. Rutishauser, C.P. Bove, & C.T. Philbrick. “Plastid Phylogenomic Analysis of Podostemaceae with an Emphasis on Neotropical Podostemoideae.” Systematic Botany 49.3 (2024): 580-616.
  • Harley, G., J. Maxwell, K. King, S. Rayback, E. Cook, C. Hansen, R.S. Maxwell, F. Reinig, J. Esper, T.F. Au, E. Bergan, K. Brings, N. Koenig, B. Lockwood, R. Thaxton. 2024. “A 561-yr (1461-2022 CE) summer temperature reconstruction for Mid-Atlantic-Northeast USA shows connections to volcanic forcing and atmospheric circulation”. Climatic Change 177(144). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-024-03798-z
  • Koenig, N., and A. Lawrence. 2024. “spectral remains & herbarium ghosts” in “Dark Botany: The Herbarium Tales” Open Humanities Press.
  • Bergan, E., and N. Koenig. 2024. “[Trans]calar Triptych: Queering Pleistocene Wood” Antennae: Journal of Nature in Visual Culture.
  • Rogers, H., and N. Koenig. 2024. “Against the Static Herbarium: Hidden Materialities of Spit, Fish Glue, & Mercury” in “Dark Botany: The Herbarium Tales” Open Humanities Press. 

2023

  • McFadden, T., N. Koenig, and B. Ruhfel. 2023. The Preliminary Vascular Flora of Taylor Fork Ecological Area, Madison County, Kentucky. Journal of Kentucky Academy of Science.

2022

  • Koenig, N., M. Scholer, T. Littlefield, and B. Ruhfel. 2022. Phylogenetic placement of Trifolium kentuckiense (Fabaceae), a new member of the native eastern North American clover clade. Castanea. 86(2): 283–295. https://doi.org/10.2179/0008-7475.86.2.283

POPULAR ARTICLES & PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP

  • Koenig, N. Students will not come to Idaho if SB 1357 passes. Idaho Ed News. 2024.
  • Koenig, N. If Senate Bill 1357 passes, students like me will not want to come to Idaho. Idaho Capital Sun. 2024. 
  • Koenig, N. Nothing but crickets from UI administrators. Idaho Ed News. 2024.
  • [Series Editors] Rogers, H., and N. Koenig. “Digital Natural History” with 13 Articles in the series published by the Network in Canadian History & Environment. 2023. 
  • Bergan, E., and N. Koenig. Pleistocene to Anthropocene: A Queer, Underwater Wood-Based Triptych. Network in Canadian History & Environment. 2023. 
  • Koenig, N., and H. Rogers. “An Introduction to Digital Approaches to Natural History and Environmental Humanities”. Network in Canadian History & Environment. 2023. 
  • Koenig, N. Plant extinction: the Ginkgo. The Varsity. February 18, 2022. https://www.varsity.co.uk/science/23086
  • Koenig, N. Botanical Stories: Overlooked Areas, Dr. Mary Wharton, And Winged Loosestrife. The Lady Slipper, Kentucky Native Plant Society, August Issue, 2021.
  • Koenig, N. A Message From Student Body VP Nick Koenig: Little Acorns, Eastern Kentucky University Alumni Newsletter, Spring Issue, 2021.
  • Koenig, N. iNaturalist Plant Search. The Lady Slipper, Kentucky Native Plant Society, March Issue, 2021.
  • Koenig, N. KNPS Wildflower Week 2021 BotanyBlitz. The Lady Slipper, Kentucky Native Plant Society, March Issue, 2021.
  • Koenig, N. Winter Botanizing—Tips and Resources. The Lady Slipper, Kentucky Native Plant Society, December Issue, 2020.
  • Koenig, N. Editors Notes—Join the Editorial Team! The Lady Slipper, Kentucky Native Plant Society, December Issue, 2020.
  • Koenig, N. Apathy can never be an option. The Courier Journal, October 12, 2020.
  • Koenig, N. Invasive Plant Corner – Japanese Stiltgrass (Microstegium vimineum). The Lady Slipper, Kentucky Native Plant Society, August Issue, 2020.
  • Koenig, N. Kentucky Native Plant Society invites your contributions, Newsletter of the Kentucky Academy of Science, May Issue, 2020.
  • Koenig, N. Editor’s Note — Readers to Writers. The Lady Slipper, Kentucky Native Plant Society, May Issue, 2020.
  • Koenig, N. Wildflowers and Ferns of Red River Gorge and the Greater River Basin — A Book Review. The Lady Slipper, Kentucky Native Plant Society, May Issue, 2020.
  • Koenig, N. Grant Winner Spotlight: Calvin Andries. The Lady Slipper, Kentucky Native Plant Society, April Issue, 2020
  • Koenig, N. Stop This Controversial Project. Richmond Register, May 1, 2018.