The HGIS lab welcomes visiting scholars and post-doctoral fellows. Contact the lab director for more information.
Josh MacFadyen served as a Postdoctoral Fellow for the lab’s Sustainable Farm Systems Project September 2014 – August 2015. He is now a Senior Sustainability Scholar at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability and Assistant Professor, School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. In addition to his new position at ASU, Josh will continue to work on the SFS team, applying the new methods of socio-ecological metabolism and particularly the Energy Return on Investment (EROI) models developed by the SFS team.
Alan Maričić is a postdoctoral fellow in History at the University of Saskatchewan. His research interests include Yugoslav and German Cold War history, nonalignment, and East-South relations.
Andrew Moore is an historian of the preindustrial environment and uses an interdisciplinary methodology to understand how fourteenth-century English rural communities located in environmentally vulnerable areas experienced and reacted to a changing climate. He puts more traditional archival sources, especially manorial court rolls, in conversation with proxy data, using dendroclimatology, palynology, and sedimentology to inform conclusions about the interactions between nature and culture in a medieval context. His current postdoctoral research uses GIS to map the movement of resources and consumption in commercially-isolated medieval communities in England. He is also Research Coordinator for the SSHRC Partnership Grant, Environments of Change, centred at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada).
Dr. Elizabeth A. Scott held the University of Saskatchewan Interdisciplinary Centre for Culture and Creativity’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in the HGIS Lab in 2015 where she worked with Dr. Jim Clifford on the London Ghost Acres, 1850-1919 project. Her research focused broadly on the history of commodity extraction and the role of the Royal Botanical Gardens in British Ceylon in the late nineteenth century. Dr. Scott has now joined the Department of History at the University of Prince Edward Island as a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow under the supervision of Dr. Lisa Chilton. The two-year research appointment will forge long-range historical connections between medical inspection, poverty, and socio-political anxiety in Britain and Canada.
Andrew Watson is a Canadian Environmental Historian and member of the Sustainable Farm Systems Project. He worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the HGIS lab from 2015 to 2017. His work with the Great Plains team uses socio-ecological metabolism methods to trace the changing energy flows of agriculture in Kansas during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By reconstructing these flows at the county, township, and farm level, Andrew’s work will offer an comparative analysis at various scales over time. Andrew is also a collaborator with Jim Clifford on London’s Ghost Acres Project, which uses digital methods, such as text-mining and HGIS, to trace global commodity flows during the nineteenth century. His own current research examines the economic and environmental history of coal production and consumption in Canada during the first half of the twentieth century.
