We launched Season Two of NiCHE Conversations this past fall! NiCHE Conversations are 10-20 minute casual conversations with NiCHE contributors about their NiCHE contributions on Instagram Live. Afterwards these conversations are available on our Instagram profile and YouTube channel.
These conversations build upon an author’s blog post(s) by asking them to:
- Reiterate their ideas
- More fully flesh out their research or writing process
- Connect their post to broader issues and fields of thought
- Speak to personal aspects of their research
Many thanks to our latest interviewees: Tilly Hinton, Jess Dunkin, Kara Murphy Schlichting, and Caroline C.E. Abbott. Take some time to catch up on these scholars’ work and insights in NiCHE Conversations 2.1-2.4.
NiCHE Conversations 2.1: Collectively Processing the Apocalypse with Tilly Hinton
- Project Discussed: Storytime for the Apocalypse
- NiCHE Event Discussed: “Storytime for the Apocalypse with NiCHE – The Audio“
NiCHE Conversations 2.2: Canoe and Canvas: Writing a Social History of Sport with Jess Dunkin
- Book Discussed: Canoe and Canvas: Life at the Encampments of the American Canoe Association, 1880−1910 by Jess Dunkin (Toronto University Press, 2019)
NiCHE Conversations 2.3: Tracing the History of Urban Heat Waves with Kara Murphy Schlichting
- NiCHE Article Discussed: “The Swelter of Summer: Heat Waves and the Urban Heat Island in New York City History” by Kara Murphy Schlichting
NiCHE Conversations 2.4: White Ghosts and the Transmission of Whiteness on the Land with Caroline C.E. Abbott
- NiCHE Article Discussed: “The Trouble on Hell Hollow Road: White Ghosts, Maternal Grief, and the Gendered Fragility of American Park Mythology” by Caroline C.E. Abbott
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is an environmental historian of Canada and the United States, editor, and digital communications strategist. She earned her PhD in History from the University of Saskatchewan in 2019. She is an executive member, editor-in-chief, and social media editor for the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). She is also a working board member of the Saskatchewan History and Folklore Society and Girls Rock Saskatoon. A passionate social justice advocate, she focuses on developing digital techniques and communications that bridge the divide between academia and the general public in order to democratize knowledge access. You can find out more about her and her freelance services at jessicamdewitt.com.

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- #EnvHist Worth Reading: October 2023 - November 2, 2023
- Call for Submissions – From Coulees to Muskeg: A Saskatchewan Environmental History Series - October 26, 2023
- NiCHE Conversations Roundup #14 - October 13, 2023
- #EnvHist Worth Reading: September 2023 - October 6, 2023
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- #EnvHist Worth Reading: July 2023 - August 22, 2023
- NiCHE Conversations Roundup #13 - July 31, 2023