Shannon Stunden Bower
@stundenbower.bsky.social
Environmental historian with a focus on the northern Great Plains/Canadian Prairies. Employed at the University of Alberta. Executive member and editor at @nichecanada.bsky.social. Settler living in Treaty Six Territory and Métis homelands. She/Her
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Delighted to have my research featured in this new podcast hosted by my alma mater's radio station! It's based on a book talk I gave at @ualberta.bsky.social last fall. #cdnhist #cdnhistory @ubcpress.bsky.social
New 🧠🧠 Brains on Campus episode!
Hear @tinaadcock.bsky.social on how exploration of “the North” exposes colonialism and @mountroyalu.bsky.social's Dr. Muhannad Ayyash on what effective protest looks like after encampments were quashed at universities.
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Hear @tinaadcock.bsky.social on how exploration of “the North” exposes colonialism and @mountroyalu.bsky.social's Dr. Muhannad Ayyash on what effective protest looks like after encampments were quashed at universities.
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Cold colonialism + what's next for protesting
Podcast Episode · Brains on Campus · 2026-02-11 · 58m
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February 11, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Delighted to have my research featured in this new podcast hosted by my alma mater's radio station! It's based on a book talk I gave at @ualberta.bsky.social last fall. #cdnhist #cdnhistory @ubcpress.bsky.social
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CFP: "Critical Feminist Histories in Canada/Approches critiques en histoire féministe au Canada" conference at Queen's University, 2-4 October 2026. Please share widely!
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2026 Conference: Critical Feminist Histories in Canada/Approches critiques en histoire féministe au Canada | CCWGH-CCHFG
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February 12, 2026 at 8:02 PM
CFP: "Critical Feminist Histories in Canada/Approches critiques en histoire féministe au Canada" conference at Queen's University, 2-4 October 2026. Please share widely!
@cndhistassoc.bsky.social
@cndhistassoc.bsky.social
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Call for Contributors: Canada’s Great Acceleration
A NiCHE Series
Proposal Deadline: 18 February 2026
Edited by Andrew Watson
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#envhist #cdnhist #cdnstudies #energyhistory
A NiCHE Series
Proposal Deadline: 18 February 2026
Edited by Andrew Watson
niche-canada.org/2026/02/06/c...
#envhist #cdnhist #cdnstudies #energyhistory
Call for Contributors: Canada’s Great Acceleration
The Great Acceleration refers to the period after WWII when the pace and scale of socioecological changes departed dramatically from previous trajectories.
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February 6, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Call for Contributors: Canada’s Great Acceleration
A NiCHE Series
Proposal Deadline: 18 February 2026
Edited by Andrew Watson
niche-canada.org/2026/02/06/c...
#envhist #cdnhist #cdnstudies #energyhistory
A NiCHE Series
Proposal Deadline: 18 February 2026
Edited by Andrew Watson
niche-canada.org/2026/02/06/c...
#envhist #cdnhist #cdnstudies #energyhistory
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ICYMI: Any grad students, PostDocs, and recent grads interested in #envhum & #envhist who would like to get involved in our New Scholars community should get in touch with our New Scholars rep, @amritadasgupta.bsky.social!
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Join the New Scholars Committee and Mailing List
Amrita DasGupta joined NiCHE as the New Scholars Representative in the Fall of 2025. She is pursuing a PhD from the Centre of Gender Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University o...
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January 28, 2026 at 9:43 PM
ICYMI: Any grad students, PostDocs, and recent grads interested in #envhum & #envhist who would like to get involved in our New Scholars community should get in touch with our New Scholars rep, @amritadasgupta.bsky.social!
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"How does it feel to be a worker in an oil-and-gas industry and a Canadian petrostate amid the climate crisis and the early stages of a transition away from fossil fuels?" - Melanie Dennis Unrau
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#envhist #envhum #fossilfuels #labour #poetry
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#envhist #envhum #fossilfuels #labour #poetry
New Book - The Rough Poets: Reading Oil-Worker Poetry
How does it feel to be a worker in an oil-and-gas industry and a Canadian petrostate amid the climate crisis and the early stages of a transition away from fossil fuels?
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January 9, 2026 at 4:53 PM
"How does it feel to be a worker in an oil-and-gas industry and a Canadian petrostate amid the climate crisis and the early stages of a transition away from fossil fuels?" - Melanie Dennis Unrau
niche-canada.org/2024/11/27/n...
#envhist #envhum #fossilfuels #labour #poetry
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#envhist #envhum #fossilfuels #labour #poetry
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Job – Associate Specialist, Mining Research and Knowledge Mobilization - @wwf.ca.web.brid.gy
Apply by January 5th
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#envhist #mininghistory #mining #conservation #ontario
Apply by January 5th
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#envhist #mininghistory #mining #conservation #ontario
Job - Associate Specialist, Mining Research and Knowledge Mobilization
The Associate Specialist, Mining Research & Knowledge Mobilization will support WWF-Canada’s work with industry, government, Indigenous communities, and civil society to reduce the impacts of mining o...
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December 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Job – Associate Specialist, Mining Research and Knowledge Mobilization - @wwf.ca.web.brid.gy
Apply by January 5th
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#envhist #mininghistory #mining #conservation #ontario
Apply by January 5th
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#envhist #mininghistory #mining #conservation #ontario
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Project Spotlight - Water and the Modern Prairies: Histories of Irrigation and Water Management
Led by @stundenbower.bsky.social
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#envhist #aghist #waterhistory #cdnhist
Led by @stundenbower.bsky.social
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#envhist #aghist #waterhistory #cdnhist
December 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Project Spotlight - Water and the Modern Prairies: Histories of Irrigation and Water Management
Led by @stundenbower.bsky.social
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#envhist #aghist #waterhistory #cdnhist
Led by @stundenbower.bsky.social
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#envhist #aghist #waterhistory #cdnhist
Lots of important historical analysis in here, including some environmental history stuff.
New issue of Canadian Journal of Film & Media Studies recently dropped. Issue is devoted to Crawley Films, Canada’s largest sponsored film company in mid-20th century. With essays by Charles R. Acland and Liz Czach (issue editors) + seven other brilliant scholars!
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Contents | Canadian Journal of Film and Media Studies 34, 2
From award-winning amateur filmmakers to leading Canada’s busiest commercial film company by the mid-twentieth century, F.R. “Budge” Crawley and his wife Judith were responsible for an eclectic body of work. Yet tourism promotion films remained a ...
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December 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Lots of important historical analysis in here, including some environmental history stuff.
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Today we have "Concrete Memories: Constructing Denver’s Valley Highway" by @maggiemcnulty.bsky.social
This is the first post of the Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories series edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social
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#envhist
This is the first post of the Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories series edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social
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#envhist
Concrete Memories: Constructing Denver’s Valley Highway
Denver’s 1950s Valley Highway film exposes intimate demolition scenes, revealing memory, loss, and urban transformation that complicate archival interpretation.
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December 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Today we have "Concrete Memories: Constructing Denver’s Valley Highway" by @maggiemcnulty.bsky.social
This is the first post of the Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories series edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social
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#envhist
This is the first post of the Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories series edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social
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#envhist
One last push in support of @nichecanada.bsky.social fundraising efforts. There are so many good causes, and money is tight for many, but if you can spare a few dollars, we'll put them to good use.
December 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
One last push in support of @nichecanada.bsky.social fundraising efforts. There are so many good causes, and money is tight for many, but if you can spare a few dollars, we'll put them to good use.
Look at the scholarly field we made! (Also, the spectacular visualization Geoffrey Wallace assembled, in collaboration with others.) As Mica says, @nichecanada.bsky.social looks "forward to fostering even more conversations that cross boundaries — geographic, disciplinary, and methodological."
Animating the Archive: The Geography of NiCHE Posts since 2004
While NiCHE began as a Canadian environmental history network, its subject matter has always been situated in an international context, fostering conversations and collaborations across borders.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Look at the scholarly field we made! (Also, the spectacular visualization Geoffrey Wallace assembled, in collaboration with others.) As Mica says, @nichecanada.bsky.social looks "forward to fostering even more conversations that cross boundaries — geographic, disciplinary, and methodological."
Important read by Jocelyn Thorpe and @adeleperry.bsky.social on the connections between water, infrastructure, and colonialism in Manitoba.
Opinion: Investing for ourselves, and those downstream
We have invested large sums of money in infrastructure before. You don’t often hear Winnipeggers complaining about the results: soft, clean drinking water thanks to the Shoal Lake aqueduct and flood p...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Important read by Jocelyn Thorpe and @adeleperry.bsky.social on the connections between water, infrastructure, and colonialism in Manitoba.
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❄️NEW NICHE SERIES CFP❄️
Call for Submissions – The Winter Olympics & Their Environments
Series Editors: M. Blake Butler and @theliftline.bsky.social
Submission Deadline: December 12, 2025
Publication: January/February 2026
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#envhist #sporthistory #olympics
Call for Submissions – The Winter Olympics & Their Environments
Series Editors: M. Blake Butler and @theliftline.bsky.social
Submission Deadline: December 12, 2025
Publication: January/February 2026
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#envhist #sporthistory #olympics
November 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
❄️NEW NICHE SERIES CFP❄️
Call for Submissions – The Winter Olympics & Their Environments
Series Editors: M. Blake Butler and @theliftline.bsky.social
Submission Deadline: December 12, 2025
Publication: January/February 2026
niche-canada.org/2025/11/21/c...
#envhist #sporthistory #olympics
Call for Submissions – The Winter Olympics & Their Environments
Series Editors: M. Blake Butler and @theliftline.bsky.social
Submission Deadline: December 12, 2025
Publication: January/February 2026
niche-canada.org/2025/11/21/c...
#envhist #sporthistory #olympics
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Today we have "Building Anew: Ephemerality & the Igluvigaq (Igloo)" by Phoebe Springstubb
This is the seventh post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social & guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social
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#envhist
This is the seventh post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social & guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social
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#envhist
Building Anew: Ephemerality and the Igluvigaq (Igloo)
Snow architecture enabled Inuit placemaking, memory, and renewal, while Europeans misread its ephemerality to erase Indigenous history and justify imperial claims.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Today we have "Building Anew: Ephemerality & the Igluvigaq (Igloo)" by Phoebe Springstubb
This is the seventh post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social & guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/11/17/b...
#envhist
This is the seventh post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social & guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social
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#envhist
Yesterday I saw an amazing talk by @tinaadcock.bsky.social and today she's kindly visiting my Honors History class. My connection with Tina is exactly the sort of relationship that @nichecanada.bsky.social helps foster, and I'm so grateful for that. If you are too, please consider donating.
Help NiCHE Write the Next Chapter of Environmental History: 2025 Campaign
The Network in Canadian History and Environment is a not-for-profit public history organization dedicated to the dissemination of environmental history research in Canada and building a network of res...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Yesterday I saw an amazing talk by @tinaadcock.bsky.social and today she's kindly visiting my Honors History class. My connection with Tina is exactly the sort of relationship that @nichecanada.bsky.social helps foster, and I'm so grateful for that. If you are too, please consider donating.
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Do you appreciate that we provide space for public history on topics underserved topics in Canadian and environmental history?
Consider sending us $20 so that we can continue to do this work.
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#envhist #cdnhist #envhum #histgeog
Consider sending us $20 so that we can continue to do this work.
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#envhist #cdnhist #envhum #histgeog
November 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Do you appreciate that we provide space for public history on topics underserved topics in Canadian and environmental history?
Consider sending us $20 so that we can continue to do this work.
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#envhist #cdnhist #envhum #histgeog
Consider sending us $20 so that we can continue to do this work.
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#envhist #cdnhist #envhum #histgeog
@nichecanada.bsky.social is fundraising! The organization is powered by volunteer labour but requires some funds to continue making research accessible, sparking critical conversations, and building a community of researchers and readers in environmental history and adjacent fields. Please chip in!
Help NiCHE Write the Next Chapter of Environmental History: 2025 Campaign
The Network in Canadian History and Environment is a not-for-profit public history organization dedicated to the dissemination of environmental history research in Canada and building a network of res...
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November 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
@nichecanada.bsky.social is fundraising! The organization is powered by volunteer labour but requires some funds to continue making research accessible, sparking critical conversations, and building a community of researchers and readers in environmental history and adjacent fields. Please chip in!
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There is a new post in the “Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education” series on @nichecanada.bsky.social.
So Far from Home: Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and Red Deer Industrial School
Eight Nisichawayasihk Cree children were taken from their homeland to Red Deer Industrial School; most died, yet their Nation endures.
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October 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
There is a new post in the “Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education” series on @nichecanada.bsky.social.
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"My father and his scientist colleagues warned that dams and water-intensive farming were unsustainable in a warming climate. But their voices were drowned out." Must-read essay by @nikahang.bsky.social in @time.com time.com/7321571/iran...
Iran's Water Crisis Is Its Greatest Threat
The collapse of water security in Iran has been decades in the making and is rooted in a mania for mega projects.
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October 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"My father and his scientist colleagues warned that dams and water-intensive farming were unsustainable in a warming climate. But their voices were drowned out." Must-read essay by @nikahang.bsky.social in @time.com time.com/7321571/iran...
An important new blog series starts today, Orange Shirt Day, on the @nichecanada.bsky.social blog. According to series editors Crystal Gail Fraser and Jess Dunkin, contributions will demonstrate "that residential and day school histories cannot be separated from histories of Land and environment."
September 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM
An important new blog series starts today, Orange Shirt Day, on the @nichecanada.bsky.social blog. According to series editors Crystal Gail Fraser and Jess Dunkin, contributions will demonstrate "that residential and day school histories cannot be separated from histories of Land and environment."
I'm so excited for this upcoming @nichecanada.bsky.social blog series, which is edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social
Today @nulybranch.bsky.social introduce a new series in "Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories."
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#envhist #archives
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#envhist #archives
Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories
Archival outliers—flowers, notes, photos, letters—challenge environmental historians, revealing unruly fragments that resist narrative placement yet inspire future histories.
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September 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I'm so excited for this upcoming @nichecanada.bsky.social blog series, which is edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social
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Today we have "History on the Tabletop: A Brief Guide for Evaluating Historical Board Games" by @jacobleetom.bsky.social
This is the second article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series edited by @theliftline.bsky.social
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#envhum
This is the second article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series edited by @theliftline.bsky.social
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#envhum
History on the Tabletop: A Brief Guide for Evaluating Historical Board Games
Historical board game Land Run: 1893 explores settler colonialism, Indigenous dispossession, and environmental degradation, balancing historical accuracy with player agency.
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September 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Today we have "History on the Tabletop: A Brief Guide for Evaluating Historical Board Games" by @jacobleetom.bsky.social
This is the second article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series edited by @theliftline.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/09/25/h...
#envhum
This is the second article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series edited by @theliftline.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/09/25/h...
#envhum
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Can you keep us sustainable? EHN is volunteer-run, but we need to cover our costs for hosting the website. If you value what we do, chip in $6 or whatever you can below ko-fi.com/envhistnow
September 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Can you keep us sustainable? EHN is volunteer-run, but we need to cover our costs for hosting the website. If you value what we do, chip in $6 or whatever you can below ko-fi.com/envhistnow
Circulating this again as we all buckle down for September! Please reach out to me if you'd like to chat about partnering with @nichecanada.bsky.social on your funding application.
Part of my role with @nichecanada.bsky.social involves discussing potential research partnerships with interested scholars. Please reach out to me if you'd like to arrange a conversation about your Insight Grant application or any other funding application.
New Guidelines for Partnering with NiCHE
The SSHRC Insight Grant deadline is October 1st. Consider partnering with NiCHE on your application to enhance your knowledge mobilization.
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September 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Circulating this again as we all buckle down for September! Please reach out to me if you'd like to chat about partnering with @nichecanada.bsky.social on your funding application.
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Our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series is accepting submissions on a rolling basis - niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c...
September 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series is accepting submissions on a rolling basis - niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c...