Participant Info
- First Name
- Abigail
- Last Name
- Dowling
- Country
- United States
- State
- GA Georgia
- dowling_ap@mercer.edu
- Affiliation
- Mercer University
- Website URL
- https://cla.mercer.edu/history/faculty-staff/abigail-dowling/abigail-dowling.cfm
- Keywords
- Environmental History, Landscape History, History of healthscaping, disease, Black Death, gender, History pedagogy
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I study the many ways land and natural resources — economic, political, religious, and social — were used from Antiquity to the late Middle Ages. I have strong related interests in ancient and medieval public “healthscaping” (how cities and buildings are structured to cultivate health) and non-traditional teaching methods at the collegiate level. I am co-editor of the volume Conservation’s Roots: Managing for Sustainability in Preindustrial Europe, ca. 1000-1700, under contract with Berghahn.
- Recent Publications
Dowling, Abigail, Wright, Kathryn, and Bailey, Kristen. “Academic collaboration for experiential learning: Perspectives on using archival collections and information literacy in history education” College & Research Libraries News [Online], Volume 79 Number 6 (5 June 2018)
“All of these Things Truly Delight with Utility”: Conceptions of Ecology and Natural Resource Management in Pier de’ Crescenzi’s Liber Ruralium Commodorum.” Gardens & Landscapes of Portugal 2 (May 2014): 70-77.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- dowling_abby
- Country Focus
- France
- Expertise by Geography
- England, France, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- Ancient, Medieval
- Expertise by Topic
- Environment, Gender, Medicine, Pedagogy, Science, Women
