Alan Maceachern

(MENAFN- The Conversation)

• Professor, History, Western University

Profile Articles

I teach Canadian environmental & climate history in the History department at Western University.

I was the founding director of NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment - niche_canada - and have written widely on Canadians' past relations with nature. I have also written & edited textbooks on Canadian history & on environmental history methodology. My latest book, The Miramichi Fire: A History - - has been published in summer 2020.

Experience

• 2001–2020 Professor, Western University
• 2000–2001 College professor, Okanagan University College

Education

• 2021 University of PEI, Charlottetown, PEI, Visiting Scholar, L.M. Montgomery Institute
• 2017 Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Visiting Professor, School of Architecture and Urban Planning,
• 2016 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, Carson Writing Fellow, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society,

Publications

• 2020 The Miramichi Fire: A History,
• 2017 Origins: Canadian History to Confederation, 8th ed., with Robert Wardhaugh
• 2016 Destinies: Canadian History since Confederation, 8th ed., with Robert Wardhaugh
• 2009 Method & Meaning in Canadian Environmental History, edited, with William J. Turkel
• 2003 The Institute of Man & Resources: An Environmental Fable,
• 2001 Natural Selections: National Parks in Atlantic Canada, 1935-1970,

Grants and Contracts

• 2007 NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment - Strategic Knowledge Clusters grant Role: Principal investigator Funding Source: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

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