Kirsten Greer

Biography

Dr. Kirsten Greer is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Geography and History at Nipissing University, and the Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Histories and Geographies, which addresses specifically reparations “in place” from Northern Ontario to the Caribbean through interdisciplinary, integrative, and engaged (community-based) scholarship in global environmental change research.

Positions

Full-time Faculty

Faculty of Arts and Science - History and Indigenous Studies - History

Full-time Faculty

Faculty of Arts and Science - Biology and Chemistry and Geography - Geography and Geology

Graduate Program Faculty

Graduate Studies - History, MA

Graduate Program Faculty

Graduate Studies - Environmental Science/Studies, MESc/MES

Education

BA, McGill University

MA, Wilfrid Laurier University

PhD, Queen's University

Teaching Areas

Undergraduate Programs

History
Geography and Geology

Graduate Studies

History, MA
Environmental Science/Studies, MESc/MES

Research

Research Interests

Areas of Specialization:

Cultural and historical geography, critical geopolitics, environmental history, political ecology, geographies of science

Research Interests:

Networks of empire, science, and nature; imperial geopolitics; environmental histories of the British Empire; colonial afterlives of imperial knowledge; politics of biodiversity heritage

Current & Future Research:

Zoogeography and empire; militarization of the North Atlantic; environmental histories of the “Near North”; geopolitics of the Gulf Stream

Click here to view Kirsten's CRC profile: Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Histories and Geographies

Publications

Greer, K. (forthcoming) Red Coats and Wild Birds: Empire, Science, Nature in the new book series, “Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges,” University of North Carolina Press.

Smith, A. & Greer, K. (2017) Uniting business history and global environmental history. Special Issue for Business History 59, 7: 987-1009

Greer K. & Bols S. (2016) ‘She of the Loghouse Nest’: Gendering Historical Ecological Reconstructions in Northern Ontario. Special issue on Feminist Historical Geography in Historical Geography 44: 45-67

Smith A. & Greer, K. (2016) Race, Britishness, and the 1866 British North American Trade Mission to the West Indies and Brazil. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 44, 2: 214-240

Greer, K. & Cameron L. (2015) Introduction: The use and abuse of ecological constructs. Special Issue for Geoforum (October): 451-453

Greer, K. (2015) Maritime zoogeography and imperial defence: tracing the contours of the Nearctic region in the British North Atlantic 1838-1880. Special issue in Geoforum (October): 454-464

Greer, K. (2013) Geopolitics and the avian imperial archive: the zoogeography of region-making in the late 19th-century British Mediterranean. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 103: 1317-1331.

Greer, K. (2012) Untangling the avian imperial archive. Antennae:The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture. Special issue on Alternative Ornithologies 20: 59-71.

Cameron, L. and Greer, K. (2012) The Translocal Ecologies Compendium, Network in Canadian History and Environment. http://niche-canada.org/workship 

Greer, K. (2009) Ornithology on “the Rock”: territory, fieldwork, and the body in the Straits of Gibraltar in the mid-nineteenth century. Historical Geography 37: 26-52.

Greer, K. and Cameron, L. (2005) ‘Swee-ee-et, Can-a-da, Can-a-da, Can-a-da’: sensuous landscapes of birdwatching in the eastern provinces, 1900-1939. Material History Review 62: 35-48.