It’s a new school year – new lunchbox, new pencils, new syllabi! Like last year, if you’ve got new classes in or involving environmental history, we’d like to hear from […]
Call for Participants: CHESS 2017 Gender and Indigenous Landscapes
Host Institution: York University, Toronto, Ontario ***Applications due: October 16, 2016*** Online Application Form http://niche-canada.org/chess2017 The Network in Canadian History and Environment is pleased to invite applications for the 2017 […]
History Lingers at Muskrat Falls
Editor’s Note: This post is the fourth and final in a series titled “Dam Nation: Hydroelectric Developments in Canada.” Is Muskrat Falls a Big Dam? Muskrat Falls is an 824-megawatt capacity hydroelectric project […]
Hydroelectric Development in Eeyou-James Bay
Editor’s Note: This post is the third in a series titled “Dam Nation: Hydroelectric Developments in Canada.” James Bay is a place that evokes different histories, different perspectives of nationhood, and a good […]
CFP AAG 2017: Interdisciplinary research on past environments
**Call For Papers** What does it mean to do interdisciplinary research on past environments? Exploring mixed methods in geography through the lens of critical physical geography. AAG, April 5-9 […]
SESYNC Postdoctoral Fellowships and Collaborating Mentors: Call for Applications
The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), located in Annapolis, Maryland, invites applications from early career scholars (≤ 4 years post PhD) for 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowships that begin August 2017. Fellows […]
“To C or not to C”: Dam Development in Northern British Columbia
Editor’s Note: This post is the second in a series titled “Dam Nation: Hydroelectric Developments in Canada.” The pun is terrible, but Hamlet’s soliloquy about choices and consequences is an apt place […]
#EnvHist Worth Reading: August 2016
Every month I carefully track the most popular and significant environmental history articles, videos, audio, and other items making their way through the online environmental history (#envhist) community. You can […]
Dam Nation: Hydroelectric Developments in Canada
Editor’s Note: This is the introductory post for a series titled “Dam Nation: Hydroelectric Developments in Canada.” Is hydroelectricity “green”? Renewable energy advocates are divided on this score. On the one hand, electricity from […]
Environmental Nuisances and Political Contestation in Canadian Cities: A Special Issue of Urban History Review/Revue d’histoire urbaine
By Owen Temby and Jessica van Horssen The latest issue of Urban History Review/Revue histoire urbaine is a special themed issue we guest edited on the topic of environmental nuisances and […]
Finding Longleaf Pine in American History
Editor’s Note: This post is the second in the “Seeds: New Research in Environmental History” series cosponsored by NiCHE and Edge Effects, highlighting the work of members of the American Society for Environmental History […]
NiCHE New Scholars 2016/17
With the opening of a new academic year comes the return of the NiCHE New Scholars Committee – a sub-group of NiCHE that connects environmental history grad students, postdoctoral fellows, and recent […]
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