It had always been my professional dream to take students on a study abroad program that would be meaningful and impact their outlook on their role in the world.
Environmental History Now.
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
“Are There Even People There?” Re-reading Adrian Howkins and Grappling with “Going There”
Howkins, who is a historian of Antarctica, writes of the sense of legitimacy that seems to settle on historians after they visit the places they study, especially if the places they study are little-visited by outsiders in general.
Embracing Intersectionality in the Age of Bad Data
Technology is an extension of societal mores and seeps into our lives, how we breathe, what we know, and how we move sometimes leaving an indelible digital mark.
Summer Learning: New Knowledge and Networks
Now that summer is approaching and summer schools for PhD candidates are likely to be cancelled, postponed, or arranged online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I have found myself pondering my past summer school experiences.
Colonized Bodies: Women, Nature, and Indigeneity
When I first initiated my doctoral project, I wasn’t thinking of any specific gender issue.
Telling Time in Antarctica
To put it most basically: how can you come to real conclusions regarding time in a place that for many months of the year, there is no day or there is no night?