2004 Regional Meeting Toronto | NiCHE - Network in Canadian History & Environment

williamTurkel University of Western Ontario - History Research Summary: My research focuses on the possibilities of doing archival work in the field, rather than in archives. In doing this research, I draw on, integrate and try to extend a number of different disciplines...	alanMaceachern University of Western Ontario - History Research Summary: Much of my time these days is spent as director of NiCHE, working to assist scholars in developing their projects, to facilitate collaboration, and to make our field better known to government,...	LizaPiper University of Alberta - History and Classics Research Summary: I am currently researching the relationship between disease outbreaks and environmental change in the Mackenzie and Yukon river basins after 1860 and the role of climate change in shaping the modern...
MatthewEvenden University of British Columbia - Geography Research Summary: My work focuses on the environmental history of water. I am particularly interested in how different social groups use, understand and contest rivers and their resources over time. Current...	FinisDunaway Trent University - History Research Summary: I am currently working on a book project tentatively titled From the Atomic Bomb to Global Warming: The Environmental Crisis in American Visual Culture, which focuses on mass media images of...	JohnSandlos Memorial University of Newfoundland - History Research Summary: Environmental History, Canadian History, the Canadian North, Aboriginal People and Conservation, the History of Wildlife Management and National Parks, Mining in Northern Canada, Environmental...
StuartMcCook University of Guelph - History Research Summary: My research is on the global environmental history of tropical crops, especially coffee. More generally, I'm interested in themes of science, agriculture, and the environment in the (very) long...	JoannaDean Carleton University - History Research Summary: I am working on two projects: Urban Forest History: An examination of the social and cultural values of trees and woodlands in urban North America, from 1850-1980, with a focus on Ottawa/Gatineau....	ColinCoates York University, Glendon Campus - Canadian Studies Research Summary: Canada Research Chair in Canadian Cultural Landscapes. The past-Director of the Centre for Canadian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, he is currently studying attempts to create utopian...
StephaneCastonguay UQTR - History Research Summary: Canada Research Chair in the Environmental History of Québec. His work focuses on land use and natural resource exploitation in Québec. He and Matthew Evenden are leading the Canadian Water History...	KenCruikshank McMaster University - History Research Summary: Involved in the People and the Bay project, along with Nancy Bouchier.	LauraCameron Queen's University - Geography Research Summary: Chair in Historical Geographies of Nature. She is the team leader for the Transnational Ecologies project.