Reading Time: 5 minutesWhatever its explanatory powers, or lack thereof, describing the autistic umwelt or life-world as intense carries an important truth about the advantages and disadvantages of working in academia with autism.
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
Category: Field Notes
Connecting Audiences to Environmental History: The General Survey Course
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhy is environmental history not more “mainstream”? What are your ideas for incorporating the environment and environmental history into survey courses?
Acacias in Amboseli: Trees as Historical Memory in African Environmental History
Reading Time: 5 minutesThere are certain questions that have given my research on the history of the Ilkisongo Maasai and conservation a sense of urgency.
Notes from the Field: Community-Based Research in the Apple Orchards of Boulder County
Reading Time: 5 minutesA few miles northeast of Boulder, CO lies the Midwest in miniature—and where our crew from the Boulder Apple Tree Project sampled trees from Sarah’s orchard.
Viewing Virtual Worlds: What Can Video Games Teach Us About Environmental History?
Reading Time: 3 minutesSome elements of gaming worlds are imaginary, and they can give insight into what’s around the game builders—or their hopes of what a better world looks like.
Hoofbeats in the Archive: Historical Animals’ Roles in Constructing Historical Narratives
Reading Time: 4 minutesCentering horses in historical narratives offers scholars a new lens for examining the past and our relationship with it.
Crip Cows?: Confronting Disabled Animals in the Archive
Reading Time: 4 minutesI met Katie in Washington, D.C. this summer in a box of files from the Smithsonian Institute Archives.