Participant Info
- First Name
- Jessica
- Last Name
- DeWitt
- Country
- Canada
- State
- jessicamariedewitt@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Network in Canadian History and Environment
- Website URL
- jessicamdewitt.com
- Keywords
- environment, environmental history, park history, public history, social media, American West, Canadian West, Canadian History, state parks, provincial parks, parks, water history, recreation, gender, history of leisure, national parks, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Idaho, Alberta
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a historian of the Canadian and American environment, editor, and digital communications strategist. I am an executive member, editor, and social media editor for the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). I specialize in park history. I completed my PhD in History from the University of Saskatchewan in Spring 2019. My dissertation, “Middle Parks: State and Provincial Park Development in the United States and Canada, 1890-1990,” is a comparative history of state and provincial park development, focusing on the park systems of Pennsylvania, Ontario, Idaho, and Alberta. I am a passionate social justice advocate, and I focus on developing digital techniques and communications that bridge the divide between academia and the general public in order to democratize knowledge access.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @JessicaMDeWitt
- Country Focus
- Canada and United States
- Expertise by Geography
- North America
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Environment, Public History
