Barbara Barnes' current work examines the production of normalized and embodied national identities through the emotional appeal of outdoor adventure sport and travel in both practice and representation. She completed a dissertation entitled "Global Extremes: Spectacles of Wilderness Adventure, Endless Frontiers, & American Dreams" in December 2006 at the University of California Santa Cruz that used multiple methods (i.e., ethnography, media analysis, cultural history) to examine the cultural-historical significance of outdoor adventure in the United States during the final...