I was a dissertation fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia 20 years ago. I'm thrilled to return next week to discuss my book "Canal Dreamers." I might even talk about sharks! Join me on April 15 at 5 PM.
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Resharing this for any interested #skystorians and scholars in adjacent fields #EnvHums #EnvHist #CoastalHist #STS

Very much enjoyed doing this video interview about my article! Thanks to @erikahanna.bsky.social and @urbanhistory.bsky.social for the opportunity. Hopefully of interest to colleagues across urban history and environmental humanities #UrbanHist #UrbanStudies #EnviroHums #CoastalHist

Historians! What are good histories/who is working on, the RNLI, Coast Guard, Coastal Watch and such groups? For a thing
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The Making of Grimsby’s Dock Tower: The Entanglements of Infrastructural Relations This is the third post in Urban and Environmental Dialogues, our January collaboration with the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). For other entries in the series, see here. By Sa…

New on the blog! @samgrinsell.bsky.social on Grimsby's Dock Tower: themetropole.blog/2026/01/12/t... @nichecanada.bsky.social
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The Making of Grimsby’s Dock Tower: The Entanglements of Infrastructural Relations Grimsby Dock Tower exemplifies nineteenth-century infrastructure linking land, sea, commerce, and ecology, revealing buildings as nodes within global circulation systems.

niche-canada.org/2026/01/12/t... The Making of Grimsby's Dock Tower - new post by me on @nichecanada.bsky.social @urbanhistorya.bsky.social #UrbanHistory #CoastalHist #NorthSea #EnvHist #EnvHums

So happy I got to talk about nineteenth-century sharks (and also loan sharks) on an early American history podcast. We need more 🦈 in 🗃️ !
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“Liquid assets”: Coastal wetlands, regional parks, and the protection of Mediterranean deltas - Santiago Gorostiza, Giacomo Parrinello, Daniel Aguettaz-Vilchez, 2024 After a century of accelerating drainage, in the 1960s coastal wetlands became the object of unprecedented protection campaigns around the world. This paper com...

What does coastal development have in common with protection? Likely more than you think!

A new open-access paper sheds light on the counterintuitive but strong relationship between coastal development and protection in Mediterranean deltas.

A short #envhist #coastalhist thread to unpack it 🧵

Deadline extended--submit your papers by Feb. 23. #coastalhist #maritime #marhist #bluehumanities #NiagaraFalls !!! :-)