Jennifer Colten on the Mississippi Valley Traveler Podcast

In Episode 81 of the Mississippi Valley Traveler podcast, Teaching Professor Jennifer Colten shares her journey into photography and discusses what drives her to explore the visual stories of the often-overlooked American Bottom. This area is a widening of the Mississippi River floodplain near St. Louis with a complex history spanning ancient Native American cities like Cahokia, early Black settlements, and twentieth-century industrial boomtowns.