Joanna E. Dean

Biography

I teach Canadian history, although my courses like my research subjects tend to cross borders, trespassing into both the United States and Britain. A few years ago, I began to teach and then to write about the history of our relations with other animals. I organized a lecture series, Beastly Histories, in 2014 and a collection that I co-edited with Christabelle Sethna and Darcy Ingram Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human Animal Relations in Urban Canada has just been published. It is open access at University of Calgary Press

Research Interest

social, cultural and material history of the urban forest human-animal relations gender and environmentalism