Network in Canadian History & Environment | Nouvelle initiative Canadienne en histoire de l'environnement
Caroline Abbott
Caroline (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge where she is a member of Girton College. Her doctoral work will produce an environmental history of the multi-species field collecting expedition of Thomas de Grey, Sixth Baron Walsingham through Northern California and Southern Oregon (1871-1872), following the lives of predator animals through fragmented archives, disrupted ecological networks and trophic relationships to better situate the place of the predator as archival and ecological keystone in understanding the entanglements between empire, knowledge production, and Indigenous history in the American west. She directs the Predator Microhistory Network and holds an (M.Res. 2019) from Glasgow University. She is managed by a small gray rescue Manx and a formerly-feral house panther.