Lauren Wheeler is an environmental/public historian working on a PhD at the University of Alberta. Her masters was about winter recreation and photography in 1920′s Banff and her current dissertation work is on environmentalism in Western Canadian universities. Lauren grew-up in Canmore, and escapes back to the Rockies as often as possible to work on side projects about the environmental history of the Bow Valley.
(What is an environmental/public historian? Environmental historians believe nature is a key player in human history and public historians take history out of the ivory tower so non-academics can enjoy it too. So an environmental historian studies how nature matters in human history, then tells the resulting stories to the public!)
Lauren keeps a blog, Can Enviro Rock?. You can also follow her on Twitter @canenvirorock.
