Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt (she/her) is a historian of Canadian and American environmental history. She's the editor-in-chief and the social media editor of the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE).
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For Jessica’s two other essays as part of her trilogy of posts for EHN’s Problems of Place series, see Place as Present Revisited and Place as Future Revisited.
Jessica has a forthcoming chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Environmental History, edited by Emily O'Gorman, William San Martín, Mark Carey, and Sandra Swart (Routledge, 2024). For more on Jessica’s other work, see her website.
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2.1 Jessica DeWitt on Places Past