Dr. Jessica van Horssen
@historiamagoria.bsky.social
Associate Professor in History at McMaster University specialising in histories environmental health and contamination. She/her
This is the final day of the @nichecanada.bsky.social fundraising drive! If you haven’t already, please consider donating to help the network support #ECRs, #EnvHist, #CdnHist and #histSTM! fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
December 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This is the final day of the @nichecanada.bsky.social fundraising drive! If you haven’t already, please consider donating to help the network support #ECRs, #EnvHist, #CdnHist and #histSTM! fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
Agreed! Thank you so much for organising these, Elsa!
August 20, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Agreed! Thank you so much for organising these, Elsa!
#CHESS2025 has arrived at McMaster! So excited to welcome a great @nichecanada.bsky.social #EnvHist crew this aft and engaging in histories of contamination and remediation over the coming days. Welcome to Steeltown!
May 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
#CHESS2025 has arrived at McMaster! So excited to welcome a great @nichecanada.bsky.social #EnvHist crew this aft and engaging in histories of contamination and remediation over the coming days. Welcome to Steeltown!
The May 1st deadline for the two month Corsini graduate student research fellowship at the Wilson Institute for #CdnHist #CanHist is fast approaching! Please share and if you have any questions, get in touch with me asap. wilson.humanities.mcmaster.ca/our-communit...
April 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The May 1st deadline for the two month Corsini graduate student research fellowship at the Wilson Institute for #CdnHist #CanHist is fast approaching! Please share and if you have any questions, get in touch with me asap. wilson.humanities.mcmaster.ca/our-communit...
So excited to welcome @stevenmaynard.bsky.social to McMaster this Thursday as our Messecar lecturer! His talk, In the Archives of Infamy with Michel Foucault, is going to be fascinating!
March 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM
So excited to welcome @stevenmaynard.bsky.social to McMaster this Thursday as our Messecar lecturer! His talk, In the Archives of Infamy with Michel Foucault, is going to be fascinating!
The Wilson Institute for Canadian History @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social has a grad student essay competition and the deadline is soon! The prize comes with $500 for the best essay that places #CdnHist in a transnational framework. Deadline 28 Feb! wilson.humanities.mcmaster.ca/research/pri...
February 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The Wilson Institute for Canadian History @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social has a grad student essay competition and the deadline is soon! The prize comes with $500 for the best essay that places #CdnHist in a transnational framework. Deadline 28 Feb! wilson.humanities.mcmaster.ca/research/pri...
Finally, Ian Radforth’s Deadly Swindle: An 1890 Murder in Backwoods Ontario that Gripped the World, detailing one of Canada’s most infamous murder trials that captured the attention of the Victorian world and highlighted deep divides in the local population.
January 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Finally, Ian Radforth’s Deadly Swindle: An 1890 Murder in Backwoods Ontario that Gripped the World, detailing one of Canada’s most infamous murder trials that captured the attention of the Victorian world and highlighted deep divides in the local population.
The next is Matthew S. Wiseman, Frontier Science: Northern Canada, Military Research, and the Cold War, 1945-1970, which uses a racialised framework to uncover a history of settler colonial science and the ways it impacted land and peoples in the Arctic.
January 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The next is Matthew S. Wiseman, Frontier Science: Northern Canada, Military Research, and the Cold War, 1945-1970, which uses a racialised framework to uncover a history of settler colonial science and the ways it impacted land and peoples in the Arctic.
The first is Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel with Sean Carleton, When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance, linking Indigenous Internationalism to Haudenosaunee resistance to land theft and retelling the history of Oka is such important ways.
January 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The first is Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel with Sean Carleton, When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance, linking Indigenous Internationalism to Haudenosaunee resistance to land theft and retelling the history of Oka is such important ways.
I wasn’t built for breakfast television but I made it through!
November 11, 2024 at 3:12 PM
I wasn’t built for breakfast television but I made it through!
Took my #CdnEnvHist grad class to the campus Thode nuclear reactor yesterday and it was like going back in time to the 1950s (except nuclear scientists are now dressed in flannel and hoodies). Such a fantastic experience! #histSTM
October 22, 2024 at 1:50 PM
Took my #CdnEnvHist grad class to the campus Thode nuclear reactor yesterday and it was like going back in time to the 1950s (except nuclear scientists are now dressed in flannel and hoodies). Such a fantastic experience! #histSTM
The Wilson Institute for Canadian History is hosting its first event of the season tomorrow, 10 Oct, 2-4pm EST. It will feature a talk by our Corsini Fellow, Jonathan Harper, on the practice of lobotomies in Hamilton. Zoom details via the poster’s QR code. All welcome! #histSTM
October 9, 2024 at 4:59 PM
The Wilson Institute for Canadian History is hosting its first event of the season tomorrow, 10 Oct, 2-4pm EST. It will feature a talk by our Corsini Fellow, Jonathan Harper, on the practice of lobotomies in Hamilton. Zoom details via the poster’s QR code. All welcome! #histSTM
Found this finger puppet of Marie Curie in the campus bookstore and almost fainted with horror and hilarity. Surely they attached the wrong head?! #HistSTM
October 9, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Found this finger puppet of Marie Curie in the campus bookstore and almost fainted with horror and hilarity. Surely they attached the wrong head?! #HistSTM
Fighting off jet lag with help from my morning commute. #ForestBathRightDownThisPath
August 26, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Fighting off jet lag with help from my morning commute. #ForestBathRightDownThisPath
Postal vote on its way!
June 18, 2024 at 12:41 PM
Postal vote on its way!
Yorkshire really is the best.
April 30, 2024 at 12:50 PM
Yorkshire really is the best.
Much cooler (and colder!) than I thought it’d be, and I especially liked thousands of people cheering on the sun and moon. They need our support more often.
April 8, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Much cooler (and colder!) than I thought it’d be, and I especially liked thousands of people cheering on the sun and moon. They need our support more often.
The excitement of seeing the solar eclipse is only surpassed by the panic of first not being able to see if there is a sun.
April 8, 2024 at 5:27 PM
The excitement of seeing the solar eclipse is only surpassed by the panic of first not being able to see if there is a sun.
My contractors have purchased Johns-Manville insulation for my house reno. Feels like a dystopian capitalist loop of horror to have an asbestos scholar’s historic insulation replaced with new insulation from a historic asbestos company.
March 28, 2024 at 4:46 PM
My contractors have purchased Johns-Manville insulation for my house reno. Feels like a dystopian capitalist loop of horror to have an asbestos scholar’s historic insulation replaced with new insulation from a historic asbestos company.
I’m taking part in this round table on Thursday 28 March, 9am EST/1pm GMT. Come join us to hear about the shift in #Asbestos studies! tinyurl.com/4pvbzp96
March 26, 2024 at 11:23 AM
I’m taking part in this round table on Thursday 28 March, 9am EST/1pm GMT. Come join us to hear about the shift in #Asbestos studies! tinyurl.com/4pvbzp96
I’ve finally made it big time!
March 2, 2024 at 7:25 PM
I’ve finally made it big time!
Loving the Family Day bank holiday opportunity for Monday hikes in the snow!
February 19, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Loving the Family Day bank holiday opportunity for Monday hikes in the snow!
It’s the kind of day that makes me nostalgic for Leeds. Not the train to Leeds, of course: that hot mess was worth moving across the Atlantic to get away from.
January 9, 2024 at 5:55 PM
It’s the kind of day that makes me nostalgic for Leeds. Not the train to Leeds, of course: that hot mess was worth moving across the Atlantic to get away from.