EVENT DETAILS
Friday, March 28, 6:00 p.m., F213 (Nipissing Theatre), Nipissing University, 100 College Drive
About the speaker
Dr. Greer is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Geography & History at Nipissing University and the Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Histories and Geographies. She considers herself a critical historical geographer with an interest in human-nature relations in the past, the production of scientific knowledge and geographic concepts, geopolitics and borderland studies, and the geographical tradition in global environmental history. Much of Dr. Greer's research has centered on the nineteenth-century British Empire, particularly in British North America, the Mediterranean, the North Atlantic, and the West Indies. However, more recently she has become interested in the geographies and histories of northern Ontario, especially how the “near north” has been imagined as an intermediary site in the fur trade, natural resource exploitation, and colonial settlement within the context of pre and post Robinson Huron Treaty (1850).