Education:
In progress. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), History, University of Cambridge, 2024 — Present.
Masters by Research (M.Res), English Literature, University of Glasgow, June 2019.
Professional Roles:
Editor. The Otter / La Loutre. Network in Canadian History and Environment. 2021 — Present.
Book Chapters:
Forthcoming. Caroline Abbott and Jessica DeWitt. Feminist Digital Methods. Ed. Sarah York-Bertram.
Forthcoming. Caroline Abbott. Backyard Natures. Ed. Brian Payne (et al).
Articles:
Abbott, Caroline. “Axes on the Ground: Wolves and Women on the North American Frontier.” Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History (Autumn 2023), no. 19. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. https://www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/axes-ground-wolves-and-women-north-american-frontier. ISSN 2199-3408.
Book Reviews:
Caroline Abbott, Forthcoming. H-Environment, H-Net Reviews. Ed. Daniella McCahey. 2025.
Caroline Abbott. Review of Johnson, Robert M.; Gilman, Sharon L.; Abel, Daniel C.; Pullen, Elise, Tooth and Claw: Top Predators of the World. H-Environment, H-Net Reviews. Ed. Daniella McCahey. 3 May, 2024. https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=59961.
Working groups:
Northeast and Atlantic Region Environmental History Forum (NEAR-EH).
Institutes & Workshops:
Northeast and Atlantic Region Environmental History Forum (NEAR-EH) 2023, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, June 23—25, 2023. “The Coyotes of Crowell Road”.
Northeast and Atlantic Region Environmental History Forum (NEAR-EH) 2022, University of Maine Hutchinson Center, Belfast, Maine, June 24—26, 2022. ““A Westerner Can’t Come East and Live With Any Comfort”: Nationalist Mythologies of C. Latrans Range Expansion, Indigenous Hatred, and the Rise of the Coyote as Folk Villain in The New York Times 1865–1910.”
Summer Institute on Non/Humanity, Bucknell University Humanities Center, Bucknell University. June 6 — 17, 2022. “But Being a Woman Facing the Most Desperate Odds”: Wolf Killing, Gender Heroism, and Canadian Mythologies in American Print Media 1880-1910.”
ConferenceS:
Forthcoming. “What do you want historians to know about Human-Bear Conflict?.” 7th International Human-Bear Conflict Conference. Poster. Kalispell, Montana, United States. October 2025.
“Boxed up for England:” The Walsingham Field Collection and the Practical Integration of Mammalian Osteology into Animal Histories of Imperial Field Collection:“ American Society for Environmental History 2025. Panel. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. April 2025.
“The She-Bear Wailed As If Mourning”: Dogs, Polar Bears and Gendered Trauma in the Compositions of Nansen’s Farthest North.” World Congress of Environmental History. Panel: Visual Cultures of Arctic Extraction. University of Oulu, Finland. 24 August 2024.
“Animal Encounters in the Archive.“ American Society for Environmental History 2024. Roundtable. Denver, Colorado, United States. April 2024. (Co-organiser; Roundtable Member).
“‘No Right on This Side of the Line:’ Tracking the Geographic Queerness of C. latrans in American Print Media 1880—1915.” American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) 2023: Session 9-K: "Tracing Animals in Time and Space." 25 March 2023.
““A Westerner Can’t Come East and Live With Any Comfort”: Nationalist Mythologies of C. Latrans Range Expansion, Indigenous Hatred, and the Rise of the Coyote as Folk Villain in The New York Times 1865–1910.” Animal History Group (AHG), Summer Conference 2022, Movement, July 25—26 2022.
“But Being a Woman Facing the Most Desperate Odds”: Wolf Killing, Gender Heroism, and Canadian Mythologies in American Print Media 1880-1910. May 2022. Congress 2022; Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC).
“The Purity of an Untarnishable World”: the ‘Periodical’ Exportation of Masculinity and the Gendering of Canada’s Northern Frontier.” June 2021. Congress 2021; Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC).
“Wild Maelstroms and Unimportant Rapids: Maj. Gen. Frederick Funston’s Frontier Masculinity on the Waters of the Chilkoot Pass and the Framing of the Biosensational in the American Periodical Press”. June 2021. Canadian Nautical Research Society (CNRS) Annual Conference.
GIS Projects:
Predator Microhistory Network.
Edited Projects:
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Animal Encounters: A NiCHE Series.
The Otter / La Loutre. Network in Canadian History and Environment. Ed. Caroline Abbott and Heather Green. June — September 2024.Editorial Writing:
Animal Encounters: Series Introduction. 21 June 2024. Heather Green and Caroline Abbott.
Call for Submissions: Animal Encounters. 5 April 2024. Caroline Abbott and Heather Green.Contributions:
Primate Encounters in the Colonial Amazon: Centering Monkeys in Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira’s the “Philosophical Voyage”(1783-1792). 30 August 2024. Maria Eduarda Góes B. da Silva.
The Caterpillar from the Stick; The Tadpole from the Mud: Cycles of Life and Death in the Writings of Kenelm Digby (1603-1665). 23 August 2024. Devyn Gwynne.
Finding Swallows. 16 August 2024. Yan Gao.
Bear Medicine. 9 August 2024. Raymond Sewell.
Birdwatching in the Archives. 2 August 2024. Daniella McCahey.
Scales of Change: How the Armour of Individual Fish Sheds Light on Their Collective Past. 19 July 2024. Michael Price.
Reflections on the Status of the Family Farm Dog. 12 July 2024. Jack Little.
One or Several Lobos? Uncovering the Wolves Behind the Legend. 5 July 2024. Candice Allmark-Kent.
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Ghost Light II: Monstrosities. A NiCHE Series.
The Otter / La Loutre. 26 September - 9 November 2022. Ed. Caroline Abbott.Editorial writing:
“The Ecology of Fear: or, the Plastic Prometheus (Concluding Ghost Light II: Monstrosities).” 14 November 2023. Caroline Abbott.
“On Monsters as Marionette: An Introduction to Ghost Light II.” 26 September 2023. Caroline Abbott.
CFP: Ghost Light II: Monstrosities. 15 August 2023. Caroline Abbott.Contributions:
“Scrap”ping Humanity: A Study of Monstrosity in Frankenstein in Baghdad. 7 November 2023. Sonakshi Srivastava.
Foreign Body: On the 12-Foot Skeleton as Supra-residential Memento Mori. 31 October 2023. Anna Soper.
Webs of a Monstrous Spirit: Queerfeminist and Chinese Folkloric Entanglements in The Rewinder 山海旅人.24 October 2023. Ian Boes.
Something in the Sand: The Haunted Landscapes of Bedouin Nomadic Pastoralists. 17 October 2023. Margaret Freeman.
Unsightly Relations: A Meditation On (Not) Being Disgusted by Insects. 10 October 2023. Janice Vis.
Consultation with the Devil: Witchcraft and Stolen Land in the Quebecois Colonial Imaginary. 3 October 2023. Adrian Deveau.
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Ghost Light: Folkloric NonHumanity on the Environmental Stage.
A NiCHE Series. The Otter / La Loutre. 26 September 2022 - 14 November 2022. Ed. Caroline Abbott.Editorial Writing:
“House Lights, On! Editorial Reflections on the ‘Ghost Light’ Series.” 9 November 2022. Caroline Abbott.
“Whom and What Do I Touch When I Touch My Vampire?”: A Series Introduction to Ghost Light. 12 October 2022. Caroline Abbott.
CFP: Ghost Light: Folkloric Non-Humanity on the Environmental Stage. 12 August 2022. Caroline Abbott.Contributions:
The Stories We Tell: Exploring the Folklore of Bees in an Age of Extinction. 1 November 2022. Rosamund Portus.
“Place of Spirits:” Persistence and Deep-Time Entanglements in Colonised Place. 31 October 2022. Amanda Wells.
The Parable of Bon Bibi and “Being” in the Sundarbans. 25 October 2022. Suddhasil Halder.
Another Land Made of Water: Anthropocene Islands and Ecological Apocalypse in the Orcadian Folklore of Walter Traill Dennison. 24 October 2022. Jonathan Westaway.
Garlic Mustard Assemblages: A Brief Recipe for Pesto. 18 October 2022. Adrianna Michell.
“A Bear — A Man — A Giant”: On “Sasquatch” as Cryptozoological Missing Link. 17 October 2022. Clare O'Reilly.
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP:
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“Otters, Otters, Everywhere? (On Beavers of The NiCHE).“ 2 April 2025. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). Beavers 2025 Series. Ed. Blair Stein.
“Oxen Time, Multispecies Moments, and a Furrowed Field.” 9 May 2024. Edge Effects Magazine. Troubling Time Series. University of Wisconsin Madison. Ed. Rudy Molinek.
“My Mother is Part Cow”. 29 June 2023. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). Emotional Ecologies Series. Ed. Jessica M. DeWitt and Sarah E. York-Bertram.
“We Turned Our Eyes Away”: A Visual History of Nansen’s Dogs. 19 January 2023. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North Series, Part II. A NiCHE and Jackman Humanities Institute (University of Toronto) Working Group. Ed. Isabelle Gapp; Mark Cheetham.
“Stuff Stories: A Still Life.” 12 July 2022. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). Stuff as Source Series. A NiCHE and Histoire Source | Source Story Collaboration. Ed. Blair Stein.
“Glass Ghost: The Queer Cartography of an Unruly Revenant”. 22 June 2022. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). Succession II Series; Ed. Jessica DeWitt; Addie Hopes.
“Source Spotlight: A Guide to Navigating 19th Century Periodical “Print Ecologies”. 21 April 2022. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE), Ed. Andrew Watson.
"They Come Down From The North”: Tracking the Transnational Mutant Mythologies of the “Coywolf” (C. latrans) Across a New Climatological Frontier”. 23 February 2022. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE), Ed. Jessica DeWitt, supporting.
“‘The Trouble on Hell Hollow Road: White Ghosts, Maternal Grief, and the Gendered Fragility of American Park Mythology”. 29 June 2021. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). Parks and Profit Series; Ed. Jessica DeWitt.
“Of COVID Landscapes and Lockdown: Kyriarchy, Unsettling Environmental Prose, and Pandemic as time for Authorial Reflection”. 23 September 2020. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). ResearchCOVID19 Series; Ed. Andrew Watson.
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Fundraising Committee. October 2023 — Present. The Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE).
Session Chair. American History PhD Conference Day, Faculty of History, Jesus College, University of Cambridge. 23 May 2025.
Session Chair. “Forging, Consuming, and Experiencing Cryo-Environments.” American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) 2025, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Session Chair. “Eco-Anxiety in Education”. May 2022. Congress 2022; Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC).
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“NiCHE Conversations 3.4: Folkloric NonHumanity on the Environmental Stage with Caroline Abbott”, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). 31 October 2022. Season 3, Episode 4.
“NiCHE Conversations 2.4: White Ghosts and the Transmission of Gendered Whiteness on the Land with Caroline Abbott”, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). 26 October 2021. Season 2, Episode 4.
“NiCHE Conversations 1.5: Kyriarchy and the Environmental Humanities with Caroline Abbott”, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). 21 October 2020. Season 1. Episode 5.
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American Society for Environmental History (ASEH), 2022 — Present.
British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) 2019 — Present.
North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) 2019 — Present.
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English, Writing, and Creative Enrichment Tutor. Academic Resource Center (ARC), Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, Brooks, California. 2016—2017.
Multimedia Projects & VISUAL ART:
The Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE) 20th Anniversary Logo and Merchandise Design.
“Dear (Past) New England.” 27 June 2022. European Society for Environmental History (ESEH). Postcards for Unstable Times Series; Ed. Jonatan Palmblad.
Glass Ghost: The Queer Cartography of a Transnational Revenant in conjunction with corresponding essay ”Glass Ghost: The Queer Cartography of an Unruly Revenant”. 22 June 2022. The Otter, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). Succession II Series; Ed. Jessica DeWitt & Addie Hopes, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE).
Student Journalism
Rector Interview and Analysis: Prof. Jordan B. Peterson, Glasgow Guardian, February 2017.