Interviews and Press

TIME Magazine, Made by History

November 2025

Rebecca Scofield, “The Real History That Explains the Significance of the Witch’s Broomstick in Wicked,”

Heroes Without Headlines, Moscow Middle School Podcast

November 2025

With Mario Pile and Markie McBrayer, "Discussing The Small and The Mighty Common Read,"

NBC News

October 2025

Jo Yurcaba, “Not Their First Gay Rodeo: Celebrating 50 Years of Queer Cowfolx,”

Stories Your City Forgot Podcast

June 2025

“The Gay Rodeo Oral History Project with Professor Rebecca Scofield,”

TIME Magazine, Made by History

January 2025

Rebecca Scofield, “The History That Laid the Groundwork for Rebecca Yarros’ Fourth Wing Series.”

Autostraddle

January 2025

Lauren Herold, “A New History of Gay Rodeo Explores How Cowboys Have Always Been Queer”

New Books Series Podcast

May 2025

“Slapping Leather on New Books in the American West,”

Outward Podcast for Slate Magazine

March 2025

"From Reagan-Era Rodeos to Today’s Cowboy Core: A History of Gay Rodeo"

Queer West Podcast

Summer 2024

"Gay Rodeo"

The 19th

July 2024

Orion Rummler, “Bucking Tradition at the Gay Rodeo,”

KUNC, Colorado,

July 2024

Rachel Cohen, “People are Bucking Stereotypes and Creating Safe Spaces at the Longest Running Gay Rodeo,”

The Conversation

July 2024

Rebecca Scofield and Elyssa Ford, “Colorado is Home to the Longest Running Gay Rodeo in the World,”

PRIDE Podcast with Levi Chambers

February 2024

"The Gay History of Rodeo"

Northwest Public Broadcasting

June 2023

Lauren Paterson, "Gay Rodeos are Queer Spaces in Rural Places"

TIME Magazine, Made by History

April 2024

Rebecca Scofield and Elyssa Ford, “Beyoncé Backlash is Part of a Century of Cowboy Gatekeeping,”

Latah Legacy

January 2024

Rebecca Scofield, “Idaho’s Educational Activists: The Fight for Kindergarten in the 1970s,”

Canvas8

September 2022

“Rebecca Scofield on New Narratives for Rural America,”

The Conversation

August 2022

Rebecca Scofield and Elyssa Ford, “How Gay Rodeos Upend Assumptions About Life in Rural America”

Harvard Gazette

Current

Profiled on “To Serve Better”

The Annex Sociology Podcast

December 2022

CRT in Idaho, with Kristin Haltinner and Matthew Grindal

Lawyers, Guns, and Money Podcast

September 2021

"Outriders"

The Vandal Theory Podcast

November 2020

"Rodeo Outriders"

Idaho Public Television

August 2020

“Ahead of Her Time: Woman Suffrage in Idaho"

The Lewiston Tribune

August 18, 2020

The free silver movement and the ‘balancing act’

UI Blot Magazine

May 2020

Abby Fackler, “The Right to Vote”

Inland 360

March 2, 2020

Kaylee Brewster, “Balancing the Scales”

MEL Magazine

December 4, 2019

C. Brian Smith, “The Homo Rodeo Rides Off into the Sunset”

New Book Series Podcast

November 25, 2019

New Books in the American West

Inland 360

April 24, 2019

Jamie Flathers “Riding with Pride”

The Argonaut

April 24, 2019

Alexis Van Horn, “The Right to Vote”

High Country News

March 6, 2019

Emily Benson, “Gay Rodeo and the Subversion of Western Clichés”

The Argonaut

March 3, 2019

Alexis Van Horn, “Returning to the Rodeo”

The Argonaut

February 5, 2019

Nicole Hindberg, “Bringing Diversity to Moscow”

Daily Evergreen

January 11, 2019

Ryan Lundberg, “LGBT Cowboys’ Impact Shattered Stereotypes”

The Argonaut

October 15, 2018

Hailey Stewart, “Acknowledging Diverse Histories”

Moscow Pullman Daily News

April 10, 2018

Alysen Boston, “Using the Past to Explain the Present”

The Metropole

June 27, 2017

Urban Studies Association - Member of the Week Interview

Phoenix Sun Times

May 31, 2016

John Glionna, “It Ain’t His First Gay Rodeo”