This is the twenty-first post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared amongst Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week. Here are the top articles amongst environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (July 17 – July 23, 2017): Canadian officials confirm largest earthquake caused by …
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Press, University, Environmental
This is the twentieth post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared amongst Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week. Here are the top articles amongst environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (July 10 – July 16, 2017): Bibliography on critical approaches to toxics and toxicity …
One, Trump, Says
This is the twelfth post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared amongst Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week. Here are the top articles amongst environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (May 22 – May 28, 2017): Monday: “How Thousand-Year-Old Trees Became the New …
Environmental, Climate, Students
This is the eighth post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared amongst Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week. Here are the top articles amongst environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (April 24-April 30, 2017): Monday: “An Evolving Conversation: Environmental History and Current Events” …
Earth, Will, Said
This is the seventh post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared amongst Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week. Here are the top articles amongst environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (April 17-April 23, 2017): Monday: “The most robot-proof job of them all” by David …
That Ain’t Natural or Adventures in Being an Academic Killjoy I
Last night I cracked open an Images of America–a popular history series that seeks to tell lesser known aspects of American history through photographs and other images–instalment by Eugene H. Ware. The volume is dedicated to the history of Presque Isle State Park and the land on which it was created. The images themselves are fascinating, …
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#EnvHist Worth Reading: May 2015 *The Special ‘Blogging’ Edition*
Hi all! This month instead of my typical list of five environmental history items, I hosted the History Carnival, which, essentially is a souped-up version of #envhist worth reading list, focusing on the best history blogging in town. My history carnival post can be found here. To accompany the history carnival post, Sean Kheraj and …
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History Carnival: Facets of Environmental History
I hosted the June History Carnival for the Network in Canadian History and Environment. The original post can be found here. “This month I am taking a break from our regular monthly #EnvHist Worth Reading posts to host the 146th History Carnival and focus solely on some of the best blogging that has occurred in the history community …
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On Question Periods and State Park Closures
Originally posted on Thoughts Across Time. I find the most difficult part of presenting at conferences to be the question section. There is something about being put on-the-spot that causes one to completely forget the entirety of one’s knowledge base. One frantically searches the suddenly blank depths of one’s mind for a semi-intelligent response. The ability …
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Cultivating an Online Presence: Leading the Academic into the Digital Realm
Originally published on The Otter. Several months ago I wrote a piece for my department’s graduate student blog that addressed the need for Humanities students’ to expand their skill set in order adapt to the changing demands of both the academic and non-academic job markets and society at large. Sparked initially by the dialogue that took …
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Jessica M. DeWitt: Editing and Consulting 