I decided to publish my write-ups from my comprehensive exam reading fields. I am publishing them *as is.* Thus they represent my thoughts as a new PhD student. They were written between September 2011 and July 2012. The full collection is accessible here. Promise of Eden: The Canadian Expansionist Movement and the Idea of the West, …
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Comps Notes: White’s Land Use, Environment, and Social Change
I decided to publish my write-ups from my comprehensive exam reading fields. I am publishing them *as is.* Thus they represent my thoughts as a new PhD student. They were written between September 2011 and July 2012. The full collection is accessible here. Land Use, Environment, and Social Change: The Shaping of Island County, Washington Richard …
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Can, U.S., Grief
This is the fifty-ninth 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 9 – April 15, 2018): Also see @AshleeCunsolo 's piece on …
Comps Notes: Cronon’s Changes in the Land
I decided to publish my write-ups from my comprehensive exam reading fields. I am publishing them *as is.* Thus they represent my thoughts as a new PhD student. They were written between September 2011 and July 2012. The full collection is accessible here. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England William Cronon …
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Weather, New, History
This is the fifty-fourth 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 (March 5 – March 11, 2018): The Snowpocalypse (aka the Great Blizzard …
Environmental, Will, Pipeline
This is the fifty-second 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 (February 19 – February 25, 2018): 🚨Red flag 🚨Contractors hired for MVP construction have …
Water, One, Wonderful
This is the fiftieth 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 (February 5 – February 11, 2018): The brilliant Mark Arax on Stewart Resnick–who's …
Comps Notes: Melville’s A Plague of Sheep
I decided to publish my write-ups from my comprehensive exam reading fields. I am publishing them *as is.* Thus they represent my thoughts as a new PhD student. They were written between September 2011 and July 2012. The full collection is accessible here. A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico Elinor G.K. Melville …
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Wind, Energy, People
This is the thirty-sixth 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 (October 30– November 5, 2017): Republicans have a long history of supporting #environmental …
Capacity, Water, Hampton
This is the thirty-third 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 (October 9– October 15, 2017): How a Rialto water plant may make environmental …
Jessica M. DeWitt: Editing and Consulting 