Contributors

JENNIFER BONNELL is an associate professor in the Department of History at York University. She is the author of Reclaiming the Don: An Environmental History of Toronto’s Don River Valley (University of Toronto Press, 2014), which won the Canadian Historical Association’s Clio prize and Heritage Toronto’s best book award. Her new book project explores the relationships between beekeeping, agricultural modernization, and environmental change in the Great Lakes Region. For more on her work, visit https://jenniferbonnell.com/.

COLLEEN CAMPBELL worked 20 years as a field biologist, engaged in research focused on coyotes and grizzly bears. Field work overlapped with a long teaching career at Mount Royal University in Calgary and became the source of content for her studio practice as an artist. One drawing project “The Eastern Slopes Grizzly Bears: Each One Is Sacred” (exhibited at the Whyte Museum in Banff, Alberta, from October 2017 to January 2018) revealed key events in the lives of 87 individual bears studied during a 10-year research project and became the stimulus for her collaboration with Tina Loo.

JASON M. COLBY is professor of environmental and international history at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. His most recent book is Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean’s Greatest Predator (Oxford University Press, 2018). He is currently researching for a new book project entitled Devilfish: The History and Future of Gray Whales and People.

GEORGE COLPITTS is an environmental historian at the University of Calgary. He is interested in relationships between human and non-human animals in colonial North America and recent times. He has published on animal history, the fur trade, conservation and the modern fur industry in Canada’s north.

J. KERI CRONIN is a professor in the History of Art & Visual Culture program at Brock University. She is the author of Art for Animals: Visual Culture and Animal Advocacy, 1870-1914 (Penn State University Press) and the co-founder (with Jo-Anne McArthur) of The Unbound Project, a multimedia project celebrating women in animal advocacy (https://unboundproject.org/).

JOANNA DEAN is an associate professor at Carleton University in Ottawa where she teaches animal history. She is co-editor of Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada (2016).

JODY HODGINS is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at York University where her research centres on histories of the environment, science, animals, and technologies. Her dissertation examines changes in the human-animal relationship over time by looking at animal health practices and the transition to professional veterinary medicine in rural nineteenth and early twentieth-century Ontario.

DOLLY JØRGENSEN is Professor of History, University of Stavanger, Norway. Her current research focuses on cultural histories of animal extinction and technologically-mediated relations between humans and animals. Her monograph Recovering Lost Species in the Modern Age: Histories of Longing and Belonging was published with MIT Press in 2019.

SEAN KHERAJ is an associate professor of Canadian and environmental history in the Department of History at York University in Toronto, Ontario and vice dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies. He is also director of the Network in Canadian History and Environment and the author of Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History (University of British Columiba Press, 2013), winner of the Canadian Historical Association Clio Prize for best book in British Columbia history. His work can be found at https://www.seankheraj.com/.

TINA LOO is an historian at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where she teaches and writes about the environment and Canada. A member of the Royal Society of Canada, she is the author of a number of award-winning books and articles about subjects ranging from wildlife conservation and the impacts of hydroelectric development to forced relocation in Canada.

DR. LINDSAY STALLONES MARSHALL is an Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma which occupies land belonging to Hasinai (Caddo) and Kitikiti’sh (Wichita) peoples and originally shared by many Indigenous Nations – including Cáuigù (Kiowa), Nʉmʉnʉʉ (Comanche), and Na I sha and Ndee (Apache). Her research focuses on the creation and perpetuation of settler colonial public memory through history education. She also researches the environmental history of human-equine relationships with an emphasis on interdisciplinary and decolonial methodologies.

CATHERINE McNEUR is an associate professor of history at Portland State University in Oregon. She is the award-winning author of Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City (Harvard University Press, 2014) and is currently writing a book about the lives, work, and erasure of Margaretta Hare Morris and Elizabeth Carrington Morris, under contract with Basic Books.

SUSAN NANCE is Professor of History and affiliated faculty with the Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. She is the author of various books about animal history, including Rodeo: An Animal History (2020).

HARRIET RITVO is the Arthur J. Conner Professor of History Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has written widely about the history of our relations with other animals; her books include The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age; The Platypus and the Mermaid, and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination; and Noble Cows and Hybrid Zebras: Essays on Animals and History. Her current research focuses on wildness and domestication.

ANDREW ROBICHAUD is Assistant Professor of History at Boston University and author of Animal City: The Domestication of America (2019). His contribution for this volume is based on collaborative work he did as a primary investigator at the Stanford Spatial History Project and Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis.

NIGEL ROTHFELS is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author of Elephant Trails: A History of Animals and Cultures (2021) and Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo (2002), co-author (with Dick Blau) of Elephant House (2015), and editor of Representing Animals (2002). He is also General Editor of the book series Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures, published by Penn State University Press.

SANDRA SWART is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Stellenbosch University. She received her DPhil in Modern History while simultaneously obtaining an MSc in Environmental Change and Management, both from Oxford University. She focuses on southern African socio-environmental history, especially the shifting relationship between humans and animals as in her book, Riding High – Horses, Humans and History in South Africa (Witwatersrand University Press, 2010).

EMILY WAKILD is the Cecil D. Andrus Endowed Chair for the Environment and Public Lands at Boise State University. Her main academic research excavates documents, images, interviews, and fragments of the past to explain why and how large spaces for nature conservation emerged throughout the Americas. She is the author of Revolutionary Parks: Conservation, Social Justice, and Mexico’s National Parks, (University of Arizona Press, 2011) and with Michelle K. Berry, Primer for Teaching Environmental History (Duke 2018) both of which have been translated and published in Spanish.

JAY YOUNG holds a PhD in Canadian history from York University. From 2014 to 2020, he worked as an outreach officer at the Archives of Ontario.