Participant Info
- First Name
- Vanessa
- Last Name
- Bateman
- Country
- Canada
- State
- vanessabateman@trentu.ca
- Affiliation
- Trent University
- Website URL
- vanessabateman.com
- Keywords
- visual culture, animal history, environmental history, history of photography, museum studies
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Vanessa Bateman is a historian of visual culture and media, animals, and the environment. She is co-editor of Globalizing Wildlife (University of North Carolina Press, 2026) and is currently writing a book on the intersection of avian visual media and grassroots environmentalism in 20th century North America. From 2025–2027 she is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at Trent University and was a postdoctoral researcher on the project Moving Animals: A History of Science, Media, and Policy in the Twentieth Century at Maastricht University. Vanessa holds a PhD in art history, theory, and criticism from the University of California San Diego with a specialization in anthropogeny (the study of human origins) from the Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny.
- Recent Publications
- Raf De Bont, Vanessa Bateman, Tom Quick, editors, Globalizing Wildlife (University of North Carolina Press, 2026).
- Vanessa Bateman, “Martha Maxwell on the Frontier of Colorado, Modern Taxidermy, and ‘Women’s Work,’” in Gender and Animals in History, ed. Sandra Swart et al., Yearbook of Women’s History 42 (Amsterdam University Press, 2024).
- Vanessa Bateman, “Animal Photography and the ‘Elk Problem’ in Modern Wyoming,” in Bellwether Histories: Animals, Humans, and US Environments in Crisis, ed. Susan Nance and Jennifer Marks (University of Washington Press, 2023).
- Vanessa Bateman, “‘I’m in a Cage’: A Historical Perspective on Tiger King’s Animals,” in Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness : A Docalogue, ed. Jaimie Baron and Kristen Fuhs (Routledge, 2021).
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- North America
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Environment, Gender, Local & Regional, Material Culture, Museums, Rural & Agrarian History, Science, Technology, Women
