Dr. Claire Campbell
Associate Professor, History
Director, Canadian Studies
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2173 Arts & Social Science Building |
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Tuesdays, 1:00-2:30 |
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claire.campbell@dal.ca |
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902-494-3668 (v)
902-494-3349 (fax) |  |
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Regional identities in Canada; environmental history and cultural landscapes; the arts; public history; Scandinavian history.
COURSES TAUGHT
Canadian Studies 2000 The Idea of Canada
Canadian Studies 4000 Seminar in Canadian Studies
Canadian Studies 4001 Research Topics In Canadian Studies
History 1862 North American Experiences
History 2250 The Canadian West
History 3210/Canadian Studies 3020/Geography 3020 Canadian Cultural Landscapes
History 3274 Nova Scotia After Confederation
History 3282 Public History
History 3370 North American Landscapes
History 4260 Cowboys in North American History and Culture
History 4272 Landscape and Society in Atlantic Canada
History 4001 Directed readings (History of Halifax; Environment and the Arts; Politics and the Environment in Canada)
Sustainability 1000 Introduction To Environment, Sustainability and Society
Sustainability 4900 Honours Thesis
ONGOING RESEARCH
“Wilderness culture,” The Nature of Canada, eds. Graeme Wynn and Colin Coates (2013).
“The Ontario Landscapes of the Group of Seven,” American Society of Environmental History book project, ed. L. Anders Sandberg (2013).
With Deborah Buszard, “A return to history? Exploring the energies of a maritime environment in Nova Scotia, Canada,” for Energy Resources: Europe and Its Former Colonies, Rachel Carson Centre/Deutsches Museum (2012).
Co-editor, with Robert Summerby-Murray, Environmental Histories of Atlantic Canada (Acadiensis Press, 2012).
“What Once Were You?” Historic Landscapes in Canada.
A comparative study of L’Anse aux Meadows, Grand Pre, Fort William, the Forks at Winnipeg, and the Bar U Ranch.
SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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 A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011.
University of Calgary Presss 2011.
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 Shaped by the West Wind: Nature and History in Georgian Bay.
University of British Columbia Presss 2004.
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"Whither Daewoo? A comment on environmental change in Atlantic Canada," Royal Society of Canada 2010 conference proceedings, Shaping an Agenda for Atlantic Canada, eds. John Reid and Donald Savoie (2011).
"We all aspired to be woodsy': Tracing environmental awareness at a boys' camp," Talking Green: Oral History and the Environment (special issue of Oral History Forum), eds. Alan MacEachern and Ryan O'Connor, 2010.
http://www.oralhistoryforum.ca/index.php/ohf/article/view/395/465
Co-editor with Carrie Dawson (Dalhousie University), "Groundtruthing," Canadian Studies issue of Dalhousie Review (Spring, 2010).
“‘To Free Itself, and Find Itself’: Writing a History for the Prairie West,” in National Plots: Interrogation, Revision, and Re-Inscription in Canadian Historical Fiction, 1832-2005, eds. Andrea Cabajsky and Brett Josef Grubisic (Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2010).
‘It was Canadian, then, typically Canadian’: Revisiting Wilderness at Historic Sites,” British Journal of Canadian Studies 21:1 (2008), pp. 5-34.
“Global Expectations, Local Pressures: Some Dilemmas of a World Heritage Site,” Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society 11:1 (2008), pp. 1-18.
On Fertile Ground: Locating Historic Sites in the Landscapes of Fundy and the Foothills,” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association/Revue de la Société Historique du Canada 17 :1 (2006) pp. 235-265.
HONOURS AND GRADUATE SUPERVISION
environmental history, public history, Atlantic Canada, western Canada
A passion for teaching:
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NiCHE Scholars Profile
http://niche-canada.org/otter
HIDALGO
L'ANSE AUX MEADOWS
HIGHWAY 22, IN THE FOOTHILLS
"Clara Frijs" pears in Boates' orchard, Annapolis Valley
Courses Offered 2011 - 2012
