Environmental historian. Professor Univ of Stavanger. Co-director Greenhouse Center for #envhum. Extinction; animal history.
Books: The Medieval Pig (2024) & Ghosts Behind Glass (2025)
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Dolly Jørgensen is Professor of History at University of Stavanger, Norway and co-editor in Chief of Environmental Humanities. She served as president of the European Society for Environmental History, 2013–2017. Her research ranges from medieval to contemporary environmental issues, approached through environmental history, history of technology, and environmental humanities perspectives. Her primary areas of interest are human-animal relations, the urban environment, and environmental policymaking. Her research has been covered in media such as The New Yorker and Bioscience. She holds a PhD in History from University of Virginia (2008), a MA in history from University of Houston (2003), and a BA in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University (1994). .. more
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Jen Rose Smith, Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic (@dukepress.bsky.social , 2025)
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Kip Hutchins @songsforhorses.com, A Song for the Horses: Musical Heritage for More-than-Human Futures in Mongolia (University of Arizona Press, 2025)
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Chris Jones @energyhist.bsky.social, The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economists Came to Believe a Dangerous Delusion ( @uchicagopress.bsky.social, 2025)
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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social, Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy (@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2025) .
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Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social, A Circumpolar Landscape: Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890-1930 (Lund Humphries, 2024)
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Deutsches tecknikmuseum, Berlin, Germany, visited July.
Visit was part of a PITCH project meeting, so we had a short guided tour by our partner at the museum, Nora. Their ship models out of funky materials, like a mother of pearl one, were unique.
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They had a special exhibition of extinction photography by Erwin Geiss, which was great. In the regular collection, I was especially impressed with the dioramas of human-made habitats.
All things nautical. Highlight was a working historical tide meter that used to be located in the port for ships to see.
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The polar bear! Antje the walrus! Recycled can to look like frog! The Mona Lisa of Hamburg! (What?!?) Amazing stuff.
Extinct passenger pigeon diorama), a DDT can to bring about extinction, a “dance as a whooping crane” interactive to stave off extinction, and lots of not extinct things as well.
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It begins with an introduction by Pratyay Nath: "Environment, Empire, & Early Modernity: Histories of Co-Constitution." brill.com/view/journal...
Welcomed by pride-ful dino. Innovative dioramas including bears both inside and outside the glass. Extinct birds including dusky sparrow. A purple martin & gourd (which is the bird I was in area to research)
They have some awesome prehistoric animal figural artifacts. The display about wetlands & their role in preserving artifacts is often missed because it’s upstairs, but it is nice.
Was all about the dioramas, including *the* original diorama (Muskrat Habitat Group by Carl Akeley from 1890), extinct Carolina parakeets in forest, and Silurian seas. Also Sampson the not-a-gorilla gorilla.