Zilberstein, Anya -

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Personal Information
First Name: 
Anya
Last Name: 
Zilberstein
Department / Program: 
History
University Affiliation: 
Concordia University
Phone: 
5148482424
Extension: 
5089
Email Address: 
anya.zilberstein@concordia.ca
Area of Research
Subject: 
Environment
Science
Geographical Region: 
North America
Time Period: 
17th Century
18th and 19th Century
Specific Area of Research: 
The relationship between land-use practices the construction of scientific expertise, and the ideology of settler colonization in early New England and Nova Scotia and the Atlantic world; improvement; landscape; geography/cartography
Academics
PHD Program: 
History, Anthropology, and STS
PHD University: 
MIT
PHD Date: 
2008
Major Publications: 
"Nature and Nation: Recent Books in Canadian Environmental History," Journal of Canadian Studies (Fall 2008). "Objects of Distant Exchange: The Northwest Coast, Early America, and the Global Imagination," The William and Mary Quarterly (July 2007).
Membership in Academic Societies: 
American Historical Association American Society of Environmental Historians Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture History of Science Society Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction (FEEGI)
Courses Taught: 
Introduction to Environmental History, The Seven Years' War: A Global History, Colonial America and the Atlantic World, History of the United States to the Civil War Era