Heather Green
Heather Green
Projects
The Great Upheaval: Gold Mining and Environmental Change in the Klondike, 1890-1940
This is my first book, based on my doctoral research, forthcoming with UBC Press's Nature, History, Society series.
Coal Mining and Energy in Northeastern Arizona
My Fulbright research project at the University of Arizona examines the history of coal mining and power generation in Northeastern Arizona and the tenuous relationships formed between Indigenous locals, environmental groups, coal companies, and state government.
Sport Hunting and Conservation in the Yukon
Photo: Man with Moose Head, c1901, DCMA 2006.33.1.120.
My Wilson Institute postdoctoral fellowship project investigated the rise of international sport hunting tourism in the Yukon and the varied ways in which the sport influenced Yukon conservation policies and game regulations. This research has been published in the Journal of Tourism History.
Collaborations
The Northern Borders Project
This collaborative project with Dr. Jonathan Luedee and Dr. Glenn Iceton resulted in a 2021 workshop focused on rethinking current scholarly understandings of borders and boundaries in Northern North America with an emphasis on inter-species interactions. You can watch a recording of the keynote and roundtable discussion here. It has also resulted in a curated series with NiCHE Canada.
Coal Histories of Alberta
This collaborative project with Dr. Liza Piper, associate professor at the University of Alberta, examines the development and environmental regulation of coal in post-Second World War Alberta. We are particularly interested in the environmental impacts of strip mining.
We have one publication thus far from this project:
Piper, L. and H. Green, "A Province Powered by Coal: The Renaissance of Coal Mining in Late Twentieth Century Alberta," Canadian Historical Review 98, no. 3 (Sept. 2017): 532-567.
Health and Environments Across Borders
Map of Eskimo Point from Frank James Tester, Paule McNicoll and Quyen Tran, "Structural violence and the 1962-1963 tuberculosis epidemic in Eskimo Point, N.W.T.," Études/Inuit/Studies, 36(2), 165–185.
Perennial Problems: Histories of Health and Environments Across Borders is a forthcoming edited collection. This project is the result of a 2019 workshop collaboration with scholars at McMaster University focusing on the intersections of health and environmental histories.
Historical Gold Mines and Toxic Legacies in Nova Scotia
Painting: "Waverly" 1891. Museum of Industry no. I95.86.10
This is an interdisciplinary project with Dr. Linda Campbell (School of the Environment, SMU) and her research team examining issues of environmental justice and toxic legacies at former gold mining sites in Nova Scotia. Find more about this project here.
Sights from the Field
HIST2833 Major Research Projects
The following are final research projects from the 2021 Fall Semester Environmental History of North America class
Gabe Isenor, The Alaska Highway
Shanley Weston, Clear Cuts and Colonialism
Taylor Kilgour, Hurricane Katrina
Julien Elliot-Bouchard, Kahwennodí:io (Belle Park)
Ben Brekker, Sydney Tar Ponds
Spencer Lambier, Nuclear Colonialism and Toxic Waste Sites
Benjamin Gormley, Bison Extermination and Forced Assimilation
Yuna Nagasaki, The Great East Japan Earthquake
