Liza Piper
Personal Website: https://www.lizapiper.ca/
Contact
Professor, Faculty of Arts - History, Classics, & Religion Dept
- epiper@ualberta.ca
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2-37 Tory (H.M.) Building
11211 Saskatchewan Drive NWEdmonton ABT6G 2H4
Overview
Research
Broadly speaking, the questions driving my research seek to understand how invisible, intangible, and abiotic elements of other-than-human nature—whether pathogens, rocks and minerals, energy, climate and ice—are powerful agents in our past. I explore these questions primarily in the context of the lands that are now northern and western Canada, which has led me to engage with histories of settler colonialism, industrialization, infrastructure, pollution, environmental activism, and resource politics.
Courses
HIST 123 - Plague: Disease and Epidemics in History
The causes, impacts, and experiences of disease in human history.
HIST 290 - Introduction to History as a Discipline
Introduction to the basic concepts of historical inquiry and techniques of research and writing in History. Course includes lectures and discussions. Required for History majors. Prerequisite: A previous course in History or consent of the Department.
HIST 467 - Topics in Alberta History
Prerequisite: 3 units in HIST at the 300-level or consent of Department.
HIST 606 - Comprehensive Topic Course
Historiographical course focused on one of the department's designated graduate fields of study. May be repeated for credit when course content differs. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
HIST 609 - Directed Study
This credit/fail course is required for students in the thesis-based M.A. program. Students are introduced to scholarship relevant to their research and supported in developing a research proposal.
HIST 664 - Topics in Western Canadian History
HIST 700 - Graduate Research and Writing
Research-intensive course in which students prepare and defend an article-length primary-source-based research paper. May be repeated for credit in different years as course content necessarily differs. Prerequisite: consent of Department.
HIST 701 - Comprehensives and Candidacy Colloquium
Preparation for the comprehensive and candidacy exams. Prerequisite: consent of Department.
Featured Publications
L. Piper
Cambridge University Press. 2023 August; 10.1017/9781009320924
L. Piper
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History. 2021 September; 38 (2):285-319 10.3138/cbmh.491-112020
L. Piper
Journal of Northern History. 2020 June; 13 (2):17-41
Jon Clapperton, Liza Piper
University of Calgary Press. 2019 January;
L. Piper and H. Green
Canadian Historical Review. 98 (3):532-567
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