Position

Adjunct Professor

Academics

Faculty of Arts and Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Toronto

Department of Environmental Studies & Sciences Postdoctoral Researcher, UWinnipeg

PhD (Geography), University of British Columbia

M.A. (History), Memorial University

Research Interest:

I am an environmental historian of northern Canada and Alaska. My research examines the intersecting geographies of migratory animals, scientific knowledge production, and resource extraction. Recent publications of mine have focused on the historical geographies of wilderness in Alaska, the environmental history of northern contaminants, and the impact of climate change on renewable resource sectors in northern Canada. My dissertation, titled Science, Borders, and Boundaries: Environmental Histories of the Porcupine Caribou Herd, received the Canadian Association of Geographers Starkey-Robinson Award for research on Canada. Currently, I am a co-lead on the Northern Borders Project, a collaborative environmental humanities initiative that explores the making of borders and boundaries throughout the circumpolar world.

I completed my undergraduate and M.A. degrees in History at Memorial University, and I am excited to be pursuing new research on the environmental and historical geographies of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Publications:

Luedee, J. (2024). Securing the Boundaries of Wilderness in Northern Alaska. Journal of Historical Geography 83, 153-162.

Bullock, R., Diduck, A., Luedee, J., & Zurba, M. (2022). Integrating Learning, Adaptive Capacity and Climate Adaptation for Regional Scale Analysis. Environmental Management 69 (6), 1217-1230.

Wheeler, M. & Luedee, J. (2022). Place as Boundary Object: The Manitoba Oil Museum.

Journal of Cultural Geography 39 (1), 131-150.

Luedee, J. (2021). Locating the Boundaries of the Nuclear North: Arctic Biology, Contaminated Caribou, and the Problem of the Threshold. Journal of the History of Biology 54 (1), 67-93.

Green, H. & Luedee, J. (2021). An Introduction to the Borders and Boundaries of the Canadian North. Network in Canadian History and Environment.