Dr. Jessica van Horssen
@historiamagoria.bsky.social
Associate Professor in History at McMaster University specialising in histories environmental health and contamination. She/her
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My new book will be out in early December 2025 via
@mitpress.bsky.social
Details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
#HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️
@mitpress.bsky.social
Details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
#HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️
November 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
My new book will be out in early December 2025 via
@mitpress.bsky.social
Details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
#HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️
@mitpress.bsky.social
Details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
#HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️
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Here’s the direct link to my introduction chapter to ‘Long COVID and Society’, open access and free to read for all, either directly online or downloaded as a PDF
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
The Social Aspects and Impacts of Long COVID
This chapter provides a substantial introduction to the book, giving an overview of the social, cultural and political aspects and impacts of Long COVID. Drawing on perspectives and theories from heal...
link.springer.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Here’s the direct link to my introduction chapter to ‘Long COVID and Society’, open access and free to read for all, either directly online or downloaded as a PDF
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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I just contributed to the NiCHE campaign. I hope that others will join me in supporting #Envhist #Cdnhist
Today marks the first day of the annual @nichecanada.bsky.social fundraising drive! NiCHE 100% made me the scholar I am today, and I'm not alone. All donations, big and small, help the network do great things: fnd.us/niche2025?re... #EnvHist #HistSTM #CdnHist
Help NiCHE Write the Next Chapter of Environmental History: 2025 Campaign
The Network in Canadian History and Environment is a not-for-profit public history organization dedicated to the dissemination of environmental history research in Canada and building a network of res...
fnd.us
November 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Today marks the first day of the annual @nichecanada.bsky.social fundraising drive! NiCHE 100% made me the scholar I am today, and I'm not alone. All donations, big and small, help the network do great things: fnd.us/niche2025?re... #EnvHist #HistSTM #CdnHist
Help NiCHE Write the Next Chapter of Environmental History: 2025 Campaign
The Network in Canadian History and Environment is a not-for-profit public history organization dedicated to the dissemination of environmental history research in Canada and building a network of res...
fnd.us
November 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Today marks the first day of the annual @nichecanada.bsky.social fundraising drive! NiCHE 100% made me the scholar I am today, and I'm not alone. All donations, big and small, help the network do great things: fnd.us/niche2025?re... #EnvHist #HistSTM #CdnHist
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New Master in Public Environmental Humanities - @greenhouseuis.net
2-year masters program for students who want to study today’s environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history
Info sessions on November 11 & 21
niche-canada.org/2025/11/01/n...
#envhum #envhist #envstudies
2-year masters program for students who want to study today’s environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history
Info sessions on November 11 & 21
niche-canada.org/2025/11/01/n...
#envhum #envhist #envstudies
New Master in Public Environmental Humanities
2-year masters program for students who want to study today’s environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history
niche-canada.org
November 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
New Master in Public Environmental Humanities - @greenhouseuis.net
2-year masters program for students who want to study today’s environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history
Info sessions on November 11 & 21
niche-canada.org/2025/11/01/n...
#envhum #envhist #envstudies
2-year masters program for students who want to study today’s environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history
Info sessions on November 11 & 21
niche-canada.org/2025/11/01/n...
#envhum #envhist #envstudies
I have Pat Borders autograph on my ‘93 game 6 ticket. He was my absolute Favorite and I even tried chewing tobacco at the back of geography class in honour of him, ha. The fact that I was there for THAT home run still fills me with electric joy!
On this day in 1992, the Blue Jays defeated the Altanta Braves 4-3 to win the World Series four games to two. It was the first time the World Series was won by a Canadian team.
Blue Jays' catcher Pat Borders was named the World Series MVP.
Blue Jays' catcher Pat Borders was named the World Series MVP.
October 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I have Pat Borders autograph on my ‘93 game 6 ticket. He was my absolute Favorite and I even tried chewing tobacco at the back of geography class in honour of him, ha. The fact that I was there for THAT home run still fills me with electric joy!
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"Climate & History," @nichecanada.bsky.social's Canadian History & Environment Summer School, 29-31 May 2026, on Prince Edward Island.🦞
Apply now to attend! The deadline is 30 Nov, but we'd much appreciate early apps.
#envhist #cdnhist #chess2026 #gojays
niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...
Apply now to attend! The deadline is 30 Nov, but we'd much appreciate early apps.
#envhist #cdnhist #chess2026 #gojays
niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...
CHESS 2026: Climate & History - Call for Participants
We are pleased to invite applications to attend the 2026 Canadian History & Environment Summer School.
niche-canada.org
October 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
"Climate & History," @nichecanada.bsky.social's Canadian History & Environment Summer School, 29-31 May 2026, on Prince Edward Island.🦞
Apply now to attend! The deadline is 30 Nov, but we'd much appreciate early apps.
#envhist #cdnhist #chess2026 #gojays
niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...
Apply now to attend! The deadline is 30 Nov, but we'd much appreciate early apps.
#envhist #cdnhist #chess2026 #gojays
niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...
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Professor – History (Canada-Québec). Deadline: December 8, 2025. #cdnhist #québec #laval #skystorians cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...
October 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Professor – History (Canada-Québec). Deadline: December 8, 2025. #cdnhist #québec #laval #skystorians cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...
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If you're in London in February and want to get your geek on with me:
"This presentation outlines the rocky efforts of 2 Indigenous researchers to collaborate through an extremely relational form of Western knowledge: statistics."
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
"This presentation outlines the rocky efforts of 2 Indigenous researchers to collaborate through an extremely relational form of Western knowledge: statistics."
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Counting across worlds (or, how to love a zero)
This presentation outlines the rocky efforts of two Indigenous researchers to collaborate across incommensurability through an extremely relational form of Western knowledge: statistics.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
If you're in London in February and want to get your geek on with me:
"This presentation outlines the rocky efforts of 2 Indigenous researchers to collaborate through an extremely relational form of Western knowledge: statistics."
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
"This presentation outlines the rocky efforts of 2 Indigenous researchers to collaborate through an extremely relational form of Western knowledge: statistics."
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
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"Climate and environmental conditions of internment sites are common topics in memories that Japanese-Canadian internees, like Adachi, share about their experiences. Yet, there remains a gap within historical work on internment." - Letitia Johnson
niche-canada.org/2020/02/13/a...
#envhist #cdnhist
niche-canada.org/2020/02/13/a...
#envhist #cdnhist
A ‘Showplace’ of Forcible Relocation
Japanese-Canadian internment during WWII intertwined environment, health, and racism—revealing how Slocan Valley’s landscape shaped experiences, care, and contradictions within forced displacement.
niche-canada.org
October 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"Climate and environmental conditions of internment sites are common topics in memories that Japanese-Canadian internees, like Adachi, share about their experiences. Yet, there remains a gap within historical work on internment." - Letitia Johnson
niche-canada.org/2020/02/13/a...
#envhist #cdnhist
niche-canada.org/2020/02/13/a...
#envhist #cdnhist
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In the first contributor post in the series about environmental histories of residential and day school, Antoine Mountain reflects on how residential school disconnected K’áhsho Got’ı̨nę children from the Land and important seasonally-specific cultural knowledge. niche-canada.org/2025/10/07/a...
A Deeper Cultural Divide
Residential schools disrupted cultural education, severed family ties, suppressed traditions, and created lasting identity loss, causing deep generational harm and cultural genocide.
niche-canada.org
October 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
In the first contributor post in the series about environmental histories of residential and day school, Antoine Mountain reflects on how residential school disconnected K’áhsho Got’ı̨nę children from the Land and important seasonally-specific cultural knowledge. niche-canada.org/2025/10/07/a...
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🚨 We're hiring! Join our team as a bilingual communication specialist and turn complex evidence into engaging content. If you are a storyteller with an eye for detail and a creative and collaborative spirit, this is your opportunity. go.cca-reports.ca/4nQqz9m
Deadline: Oct 19, 2025
Deadline: Oct 19, 2025
October 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
🚨 We're hiring! Join our team as a bilingual communication specialist and turn complex evidence into engaging content. If you are a storyteller with an eye for detail and a creative and collaborative spirit, this is your opportunity. go.cca-reports.ca/4nQqz9m
Deadline: Oct 19, 2025
Deadline: Oct 19, 2025
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I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities!
Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.
Applications are welcome until 24 October.
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory
Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.
Applications are welcome until 24 October.
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory
September 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities!
Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.
Applications are welcome until 24 October.
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory
Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.
Applications are welcome until 24 October.
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory
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Coming soon💨
How has energy shaped a nation?
Electric Wind by @DudleyMarianna.bsky.social is a cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain, from the industrial revolution to the aftermath of war, through energy crises and the changing politics of the late twentieth century💡
Pre-order now!
How has energy shaped a nation?
Electric Wind by @DudleyMarianna.bsky.social is a cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain, from the industrial revolution to the aftermath of war, through energy crises and the changing politics of the late twentieth century💡
Pre-order now!
October 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Coming soon💨
How has energy shaped a nation?
Electric Wind by @DudleyMarianna.bsky.social is a cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain, from the industrial revolution to the aftermath of war, through energy crises and the changing politics of the late twentieth century💡
Pre-order now!
How has energy shaped a nation?
Electric Wind by @DudleyMarianna.bsky.social is a cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain, from the industrial revolution to the aftermath of war, through energy crises and the changing politics of the late twentieth century💡
Pre-order now!
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So there's an EU-funded campaign to get millenials to eat potatoes and - I swear to Jesus I'm not making this up - it's slogan is: "Europe's favourite since 1536."
October 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
So there's an EU-funded campaign to get millenials to eat potatoes and - I swear to Jesus I'm not making this up - it's slogan is: "Europe's favourite since 1536."
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Our new CFP is up and it is monstrous.
CFP: A Time of Monsters
The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...
contingentmagazine.org
October 2, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Our new CFP is up and it is monstrous.
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Today we are privileged to share Crystal Gail Fraser & @jdunkin.bsky.social's intro to their new series, Land, Memory, & Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education
The series will run for at least 12 weeks & is still accepting submissions.
niche-canada.org/2025/09/30/e...
#envhist
The series will run for at least 12 weeks & is still accepting submissions.
niche-canada.org/2025/09/30/e...
#envhist
Environmental History and the Work of Truth and Reconciliation
This series links residential and day school histories with environment, amplifying Survivors’ voices, countering denialism, and fostering reconciliation.
niche-canada.org
September 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Today we are privileged to share Crystal Gail Fraser & @jdunkin.bsky.social's intro to their new series, Land, Memory, & Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education
The series will run for at least 12 weeks & is still accepting submissions.
niche-canada.org/2025/09/30/e...
#envhist
The series will run for at least 12 weeks & is still accepting submissions.
niche-canada.org/2025/09/30/e...
#envhist
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I started tracking the TRC's Calls to Action in 2016 and, since Eva Jewell and I stopped writing annual reports in 2023 out of despair, things have only become more bleak.
No meaningful structural changes have been made. They were never even attempted.
A clear-eyed take from @michellecyca.com
No meaningful structural changes have been made. They were never even attempted.
A clear-eyed take from @michellecyca.com
“We have to wonder: should we just abandon ‘reconciliation’ altogether?”
thewalrus.ca/trc-introduc...
thewalrus.ca/trc-introduc...
The Stark Reality Ten Years after the Truth and Reconciliation Report | The Walrus
“We have to wonder: should we just abandon ‘reconciliation’ altogether?”
thewalrus.ca
September 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I started tracking the TRC's Calls to Action in 2016 and, since Eva Jewell and I stopped writing annual reports in 2023 out of despair, things have only become more bleak.
No meaningful structural changes have been made. They were never even attempted.
A clear-eyed take from @michellecyca.com
No meaningful structural changes have been made. They were never even attempted.
A clear-eyed take from @michellecyca.com
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Notre département recrute! Professeure adjointe ou professeur adjoint et Bourse professorale Ruby Heap en histoire des femmes www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/trouver-un-e...
Emplois - Affaires universitaires
www.affairesuniversitaires.ca
September 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Notre département recrute! Professeure adjointe ou professeur adjoint et Bourse professorale Ruby Heap en histoire des femmes www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/trouver-un-e...
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Our department is hiring! Assistant Professor and Ruby Heap Professorship in Women’s History universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...
Search Jobs - University Affairs
universityaffairs.ca
September 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Our department is hiring! Assistant Professor and Ruby Heap Professorship in Women’s History universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...
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Today we have "History on the Tabletop: A Brief Guide for Evaluating Historical Board Games" by @jacobleetom.bsky.social
This is the second article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series edited by @theliftline.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/09/25/h...
#envhum
This is the second article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series edited by @theliftline.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/09/25/h...
#envhum
History on the Tabletop: A Brief Guide for Evaluating Historical Board Games
Historical board game Land Run: 1893 explores settler colonialism, Indigenous dispossession, and environmental degradation, balancing historical accuracy with player agency.
niche-canada.org
September 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Today we have "History on the Tabletop: A Brief Guide for Evaluating Historical Board Games" by @jacobleetom.bsky.social
This is the second article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series edited by @theliftline.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/09/25/h...
#envhum
This is the second article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series edited by @theliftline.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/09/25/h...
#envhum
I would also add to this that autism existed before acetaminophen was synthesized and before any vaccines were developed. #HistMed #histSTM
A few friendly reminders about autism:
- Autism is not inherently a bad thing.
- Autism is not a death sentence.
- Autism is not a pejorative term.
- Autism is not a moral failing.
- Autism is not something to shame or ridicule.
- Autism is not something to hide.
- Autism is not a crime.
- Autism is not inherently a bad thing.
- Autism is not a death sentence.
- Autism is not a pejorative term.
- Autism is not a moral failing.
- Autism is not something to shame or ridicule.
- Autism is not something to hide.
- Autism is not a crime.
September 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Really cool new partnership opportunity with @nichecanada.bsky.social! #EnvHist #CdnHist networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
NiCHE (Network in Canadian History and Environment) is looking for partners! | H-Net
NiCHE (Network in Canadian History and Environment) partners with scholars working on projects in environmental history and adjacent fields, particularly when these projects include attention to northern North America. Partnering with NiCHE provides scholars with access to NiCHE's knowledge mobilization infrastructure and expertise, helping ensure robust strategies for research dissemination.
networks.h-net.org
September 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Really cool new partnership opportunity with @nichecanada.bsky.social! #EnvHist #CdnHist networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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👩 Meet Linda Maraniss
⭐ In 1986, she visited Padre Island National Seashore, in Texas.
🏖️ She expected a beach.
🤢 She found a landfill.
▶️ Listen to ep 2 of our "Early Heroines of Plastic Pollution" series to find out what happened afterwards
tinyurl.com/4xsvnbv3
#InternationalCoastalCleanup
⭐ In 1986, she visited Padre Island National Seashore, in Texas.
🏖️ She expected a beach.
🤢 She found a landfill.
▶️ Listen to ep 2 of our "Early Heroines of Plastic Pollution" series to find out what happened afterwards
tinyurl.com/4xsvnbv3
#InternationalCoastalCleanup
September 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
👩 Meet Linda Maraniss
⭐ In 1986, she visited Padre Island National Seashore, in Texas.
🏖️ She expected a beach.
🤢 She found a landfill.
▶️ Listen to ep 2 of our "Early Heroines of Plastic Pollution" series to find out what happened afterwards
tinyurl.com/4xsvnbv3
#InternationalCoastalCleanup
⭐ In 1986, she visited Padre Island National Seashore, in Texas.
🏖️ She expected a beach.
🤢 She found a landfill.
▶️ Listen to ep 2 of our "Early Heroines of Plastic Pollution" series to find out what happened afterwards
tinyurl.com/4xsvnbv3
#InternationalCoastalCleanup