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Biographical notes
Elsbeth Heaman teaches history in the Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill University. Her 2017 book, Tax, Order, and Good Government, won prizes from the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Canadian Historical Association, including the Governor General’s Prize for Scholarly History: The John A. Macdonald Prize.
Arn Keeling is a professor of geography at Memorial University, specializing in the historical geography and contemporary legacies of extractive industries in the Canadian North. He is co-editor of Mining and Communities in Northern Canada: History, Politics, and Memory.
Sverker Sörlin is Professor of Environmental History and co-founder of the Environmental Humanities Laboratory at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He specializes in Arctic and Canadian science, environment and policy and was recently a fellow of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Study at UBC. Recent books in English include, The Environment – a History of the Idea (co-authored with Libby Robin and Paul Warde; Johns Hopkins 2018) and Grounding Urban Natures: Histories and Futures of Urban Ecologies (co-edited with Henrik Ernstson; MIT Press 2019). He serves on editorial advisory boards of The Anthropocene Review (SAGE), Environmental Humanities (Duke), and Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space (SAGE), and is a prize-winning author of narrative non-fiction, essays, biographies, journalism, and scripts for television and film.