Comps Notes: Owram’s Promise of Eden

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, …

Ice, Wolves, Sheet

This is the fifty-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 (March 26 – April 1, 2018): Sunday #Wordcloud is very 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 this week. University, …

University, Canada, Canadian

This is the fifty-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 (March 19 – March 25, 2018): "…when the original Trans Mountain [pipeline] was …

University, One, World

This is the fifty-fifth 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 12 – March 18, 2018): New Comment: Teaching the Environmental History of …

San, Areas, Vegetation

This is the fifty-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 (February 12 – February 18, 2018): New #wordcloud! … Water, One, Wonderful https://t.co/iYngj8rJae #envhist …

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 …

University, Science, Panel

This is the forty-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 (January 8– January 14, 2018): https://twitter.com/DagomarDegroot/status/950167746658095104 Monday: “Chinese space station, or pieces …

Collapse, Maya, Environmental

This is the forty-fifth 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 (January 1– January 7, 2018): Last #WordCloud of 2017! Air, Force, Environmental https://t.co/xbHaLj5nOa

New, GIS, Canadian

This is the forty-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 (December 18– December 24, 2017): https://t.co/ItRLgUBROS — 🌊🌺V🌺🌊🇺🇸🗽🇵🇷✊🏾🌻🇺🇦 🌻 (@VThePR) December 17, 2017 Monday: …

History, Environmental, Natural

This is the thirty-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 (November 6– November 12, 2017): Great new blog post on the #CharteroftheForest from …