I study the history and historical geography of Canada. I am particularly interested in environmental history and the Canadian west, as well as in relations between people and the state.
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My major research interrogates the implications for Canadian communities of late-19th to mid-20th century food systems, seeking to discover the effects on local environment, and community cohesion,...
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My research is on the global environmental history of tropical crops, especially coffee. More generally, I'm interested in themes of science, agriculture, and the environment in the (very) long...
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I am interested in the intersections between environment and public memory in historical studies: how people have responded to ecological change over time, the kinds of meanings they have attached to...
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Canada Research Chair in Canadian Cultural Landscapes. The past-Director of the Centre for Canadian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, he is currently studying attempts to create utopian...
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Canada Research Chair in the Environmental History of Québec. His work focuses on land use and natural resource exploitation in Québec. He and Matthew Evenden are leading the Canadian Water History...
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Currently working on a collaborative project on the Great Plains. Analyzing a time series of aerial photo samples taken from 50 counties across the U.S. plains, from the late 1930s to the mid-2000s...
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Flax was a sodbusting crop produced for linseed oil, and its commodity chain connects the rise in paint consumption, multinational chemical corporations, and biotechnology to the cultivation of the...
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I am currently a PhD candidate, studying the social, economic and agronomic conditions of mixed farming on Ontario in the early 1900s. My crop of interest is soybeans, which was introduced to Ontario...
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My research utilizes societal metabolism methodology to determine how socioecological changes in settler and tourist communities in Muskoka became more or less sustainable over time. The intention is...
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Daniel Rueck studies ecology, land-use, and boundary-making on Amerindian ‘reserves’ in Quebec. He is interested in federal and provincial surveys of boundaries around reserves as well as the...
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I am interested in the connections between culture and agriculture, and what traditional knowledge immigrants/children of immigrants have in regards to agriculture that can be channelled into...
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