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Liza Piper

Liza Piper is an associate professor at the University of Alberta, where she teaches environmental and Canadian history. She researches and writes about the relations between people and the rest of nature in the past, primarily in northern environments and with a particular focus on the roles of science and industry and the consequences for diet and health. She is the author of The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada (2009).

Lisa Szabo-Jones is a Ph.D. candidate in English and film studies at the University of Alberta and a 2009 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar. She is a founding and current editor of the online journal The Goose, a biannual publication of the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada, established in 2005.

Books by Liza Piper

Environmental Activism on the Ground

Small Green and Indigenous Organizing

edited by Jonathan Clapperton & Liza Piper

Ice Blink

Navigating Northern Environmental History

edited by Stephen Bocking & Brad Martin
contributions by Tina Adcock, Emelie Cameron, Hans M. Carlson, Marionne Cronin, Matthew Farish, Arn Keeling, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Tina Loo, Paul Nadasdy, Jonathan Peyton, Liza Piper, John Sandlos & Andrew Stuhl

Sustaining the West

Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments

edited by Liza Piper & Lisa Szabo-Jones

The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada

by (author) Liza Piper

The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada

Nature/ History/ Society

by (author) Liza Piper