Animal Encounters:
a NiCHE Series

In collaboration with the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE), and following the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) 2024 roundtable, “Animal Encounters in the Archive” led by series co-editors Caroline Abbott and Prof. Heather Green, we are excited to share the call for papers for our inaugural collaboration, “Animal Encounters.” Accepted proposals to this series will contribute an essay to NiCHE’s academic blog, The Otter, and more-than-human histories with which contributions engage will be added to Anima’s Atlas.

For more information, please review the CFP here. With questions, please reach out to series editors Caroline Abbott and Prof. Heather Green.

Team

  • Caroline Abbott

    Project Director

    Caroline Abbott (she/her) is an environmental historian. She is a member of the editorial team at the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE) holds an M.Res. from the University of Glasgow. Anima was first presented at the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH)’s 2024 conference in Denver, Colorado during the roundtable “Animal Encounters in the Archive,” co-organized by Caroline Abbott and Prof. Heather Green. She hopes the project can serve the community in the interest of giving animal microhistories and the lives they represent a way back home (and so far, she doesn’t hate code).

    Caroline would like to note that this project is already a site made possible through community care. In particular, she would like to thank Sean Cox, Dr. Isabelle Gapp, Javier Gonzalez Cortes Prof. Jack Bouchard, Dr. Jessica DeWitt, Prof. Heather Green, and Prof. Nathanial Cooper, for their roles in making this project possible.

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