Piper, Liza
Associate Professor, History
PhD York University (2005)
MA York University (2001)
BA Hons. Memorial University
of Newfoundland (2000)
2-37 Tory Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB
T6G 2H4
tel: 780-492-0855
epiper [at] ualberta ca
Current Projects
Ecological Imperialism in the Canadian North: Disease, Diet, and Nutrition, 1720 to 2000
This project examines the relationship between disease outbreaks and environmental change in the North, with a focus on the Mackenzie and Yukon river basins in the period between 1860 and 1970.
Weathering Colonization in northern North America, 1800-1939
This project examines the role of historical climate change in shaping the modern Arctic and Subarctic. To hear more about this work, you can listen to my interview with Dr. Jan Oosthoek in this podcast at EH Resources. To read an introduction to the basics of climate change, read this briefing document I prepared for the Public Deliberation on Climate Change in Alberta.
Early Canada Environmental Data
Part of the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). For more information on NiCHE or the ECED project please check out the website or send me an email at the address provided above.
Courses
HIST 261 - Post-Confederation Canada (Winter 09 - 261 syllabus)
HIST 360 - "The Land God Gave to Cain" - Canada in Global Environmental History (Fall 08 - 360 syllabus)
HIST 366 - The Canadian West Since 1885 (Winter 09 - 366 syllabus)
HIST 460 / 699 - Nature's Compass (Fall 09 - syllabus ; reading list)
HIST 478 / 699 - Science, Environment and Society in the North (Fall 08 - 478 syllabus / Fall 08 - 699 syllabus) HIST 603 - Canadian Historiography for the period after 1896
Graduate Students
MA - Erik Lizee "Agrarian and Environmentalist Opposition to the Oil and Gas Development Policies of Peter Lougheed" - Completed, 2010.
PhD - Lauren Wheeler, "Trees, Tar Sands, and Environmentalism: Research, Education, Activism and Western Canadian Universities in the Twentieth Century"
Recent Projects & Publications
Piper, L. Ed. Scientia Canadensis, Special Issue: History of Circumpolar Science and Technology 33 (no. 2) 2010.
Piper, L. “Chronic Disease in the Yukon River Basin, 1890-1960.” In Locating Health: Historical and Anthropological Investigations of Place and Health. Editors Erika Dyck and Christopher Fletcher. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011. Pp. 129-49.
Co-curated with Karen Simonson, Natures Past: Archival Evidence of Environmental and Climate Change. Exhibit at the Provincial Archives of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Sept. 9 - Dec. 11, 2010.
Piper, L. "Parasites from 'Alien Shores': the Decline of Canada's Freshwater Fishing Industry," Canadian Historical Review 91, 1 (March 2010): 87-114. (full text)
Piper, L. The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009. (publisher's page)
Piper, L. "Colloquial Meteorology," in Method and Meaning in Canadian Environmental History, Alan MacEachern and William J. Turkel, eds. Toronto: Thompson-Nelson, 2008.
Piper, L. and J. Sandlos, "A Broken Frontier: Ecological Imperialism in the Canadian North," Environmental History 12.4 (October 2007): 759-95. (full text)
Piper, L. "Subterranean Bodies: Mining the Large Lakes of North-west Canada, 1921-1960," Environment and History 13.2 (May 2007): 155-86. (full text)
Piper, L. "Backward Seasons and Remarkable Cold: The Climate over Long Reach, New Brunswick 1812-1821," Acadiensis Vol. XXXIV No. 1 (Autumn 2004): 31-55. (full text)
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