Dolly Jørgensen

@dollyjorgensen.bsky.social

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Environmental historian. Professor Univ of Stavanger. Co-director Greenhouse Center for #envhum. Co-editor Environmental Humanities journal. Extinction; animal history.
New book: The Medieval Pig (Boydell 2024) https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781837651689/th .. more

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Dolly Jørgensen is Professor of History at University of Stavanger, Norway and co-editor in Chief of Environmental Humanities. She served as president of the European Society for Environmental History, 2013–2017. Her research ranges from medieval to contemporary environmental issues, approached through environmental history, history of technology, and environmental humanities perspectives. Her primary areas of interest are human-animal relations, the urban environment, and environmental policymaking. Her research has been covered in media such as The New Yorker and Bioscience. She holds a PhD in History from University of Virginia (2008), a MA in history from University of Houston (2003), and a BA in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University (1994). .. more

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 15d

Ghosts Behind Glass has been officially published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social!

If you are looking for an absolutely gorgeous book that tackles a deeply serious topic, this is a perfect choice. Would make a really thoughtful Christmas gift.

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Ghosts Behind Glass

How museums display extinct species—and what these exhibits say about us. While it’s no longer possible to encounter a dodo in the wild, we can still come face-to-face with them in museums. The rema...

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 22h

Made my Thanksgiving dinner on Tuesday because daughter was visiting then, so today I made turkey pot pie with leftovers and it was the absolute best pot pie I’ve ever made and possibly the best I’ve ever eaten. 🦃

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Janneken @janneken.org · 23h

Please don’t ask me how my writing is going. But please buy these books for your great aunts, cousins, crafty pals, & art lovers who like to learn about history. americanart.si.edu/books/patter...

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 23h

Nice! I use that gallery in the chapter on Cursed Treasures in my new book Ghosts Behind Glass. Can’t really see the dodo well, but plenty of photos of them from other museums in a later chapter that highlights the dodo.

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Margot C. Finn, Dolly Jørgensen

Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 1d

My annual traveling turkeys post! What do you do when a New World bird visits the Mughal court? Paint it in miniature, of course! This essay by Neha Vermani follows the Muslim reception of our feathered friends.
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The turkey's journey from the Atlantic to the early modern Islamic world | Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 1d

Haha. Mine is probably true.

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 1d

A fan favorite Thanksgiving story from the Library: In 1926, Mississippi supporters of President Coolidge sent him a raccoon to kill & serve for Thanksgiving dinner. The Coolidges adopted her, instead.👇
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2021/01/when-rebecca-the-raccoon-ruled-the-white-house/?loclr=blsky

Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, half-length portrait, standing, facing front, holding her pet raccoon Rebecca. Published between 1921 and 1923. National Photo Company Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 1d

A month ago I participated in @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy Research Routes seminar organized by @hcraddock.bsky.social - "Extinction and hope: Navigating animal encounters in the archive".

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Research Routes - Extinction and hope: Navigating animal encounters in the archive

YouTube video by The National Archives UK

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 1d

My book Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums came out this month!
I’m so happy with how gorgeous it is in full color with 90 photos. Would make a fantastic gift for any animal lover or museum goer.

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Smiling woman holding book with green cover showing a colorful parakeet under glass

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 1d

My book Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums came out this month!
I’m so happy with how gorgeous it is in full color with 90 photos.

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Smiling woman holding book with green cover showing colorful parakeet under glass

Reposted by Paolo Crosetto, Dolly Jørgensen, Aileen Fyfe

LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 2d

👀ICYMI: "if the drain has a particular history and geography, it means that it is not inevitable. It can be resisted."

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #ScholComm

Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science - Impact of Social Sciences

Have the interests of commercial publishers now become antithetical to the pursuit of knowledge?

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Reposted by Claire Connolly

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2d

Finally we have two new entries in the Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities:
"Hurakán Culture" by Yairen Jerez Columbié
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"Metabolism" by Molly MacVeagh
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Reposted by Joanna Brück

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2d

Commentary: "Animals Give Us a Body We Didn’t Have: An Interview with Vinciane Despret" features Iwona Janicka, Stephen Muecke, & Vinciane Despret in conversation on how the dead, animals, and people animate each other.

Animals Give Us a Body We Didn’t Have | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2d

Ana Croegaert & Amy Leia McLachlan, "Museum Work as Protection Beyond the Human: Co-Curating Possibility at the Intersection of COVID-19, Race, and Environment" explores possible museum praxis that reflects intersecting vulnerabilities of racialized communities surviving the COVID-19 pandemic

Museum Work as Protection Beyond the Human | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2d

Provocation: Bob Frame et al (incl @widewhitestage.bsky.social) , "Monuments for the End of the World?: Antarctic Heritage Ecology in the Early Anthropocene" proposes a role for #envhum in formalizing a shift from predominantly historical to increasingly futures-focused heritage.

Monuments for the End of the World? | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2d

Article 7: Kregg Hetherington, "The Time of Ghost Rivers" explores a ghost river in Montreal, its various revivals in the present, and the halting attempts by urban actors to form relations with it.
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A sepia map showing a river in middle. From “Hydrographie de Montréal au 17e siècle” from Mahaut, “Cartographie des Anciens Cours.”

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2d

Article 6: Kristoffer Balslev Willert & Nicolai Knudsen, "Anthropocentrism in the Anthropocene: Toward an Ostensive Humanism" clarifies the merits and limitations of both anthropocentric and post-anthropocentric views in ethics and ontology, then outlines a minimal form of anthropocentrism.

Anthropocentrism in the Anthropocene | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2d

Article 5: Justin Gaudry & Stephen Healy, "Matter, Consciousness, and the Anthropocene: Panpsychism Encounters Vital Materialism and Historical Materialism" analyses the value of panpsychist theory, which holds that consciousness is a fundamental and ubiquitous property of the natural world.

Matter, Consciousness, and the Anthropocene | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2d

Article 4: Patrick Anthony Barbosa Brock, "Synchronization and Spectacle as a Community Response to Forever Chemicals" proposes speculative communities address the deep entanglement of fluorosurfactants with ants, humans, transnational capital, international treaties, and temporality.

Synchronization and Spectacle as a Community Response to Forever Chemicals | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2d

Article 3: @wombatscholar.bsky.social, "Gathering Dust: Perceivability, Breathability, and Grievability in Modern Atmospheres" on the 9/11 World Trade Center dust & ashes as both valued as remains of loved ones and feared as toxic residue
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Jar with contents labeled "125 Cedar St. 9/11 DUST"
Urn or jar, Cedar St., by Elena del Rivero; courtesy of the artist.

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2d

Article 2: Austin Lillywhite, "What Is a 'Plant-Human'?: Caribbean Trans Ecologies in Suzanne Césaire and Shani Mootoo" argues that the allegorical plant-human demonstrates the capacity of gendered embodying & geopolitical longue durée of bodies set in motion to fuel racial capitalism.

What Is a “Plant-Human”? | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2d

Article 1: Rebecca Oh, "Apocalyptic Realism: Death and Life Amid Nuclear Infrastructures" which reads Idrissou Mora-Kpai’s documentary "Arlit, deuxième Paris" and Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner’s poem “Anointed” as examples of apocalyptic realism
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Video still of Runit Dome seen from the air in “Anointed,” dir. Dan Lin, 2018

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2d

We also give a commendation to Alex Moulton for "Plotting a New Course for the Environmental Humanities: Provision Grounds, Race, and the Future" read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2d

We start with announcement of Environmental Humanities 2025 Best Article Prize which goes to (drumroll):

@susanneferwerda.bsky.social for "Blue Humanities and the Color of Colonialism" read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

Read the citation for the award:
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2d

The November 2025 issue of Environmental Humanities is out now! Check it out for all the lastest #envhum scholarship
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Cover image: A Marshall Islands navigation chart collected by Thomas William Smillie in 1899. Smithsonian Institution Archives.

cover of journal Environmental Humanities. White sticks laid out in a shape on a light blue background

Reposted by David Pyle, Lesley A. Hall, Dolly Jørgensen , and 1 more David Pyle, Lesley A. Hall, Dolly Jørgensen, Morwenna Ludlow

Charlotte Connelly @curatorconnelly.bsky.social · 2d

The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍

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Librarian

The Library of the Scott Polar Research Institute is one of the most comprehensive collections of published polar information in the world. This highly specialist reference collection, which attracts

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Reposted by Elizabeth Pisani, Dolly Jørgensen

The Museum of English Rural Life @themerl.bsky.social · 3d

Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?

We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.

Find out more:

collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/

Two students look at objects in the reading room at The Museum of English Rural Life.

Reposted by Libby Robin, Dolly Jørgensen

EASLCE @easlce.bsky.social · 3d

#CFP: "The Ocean of Life. Humanities and the Ocean"
International seminar, 3 July 2026, University of the Ryukus, Japan.

Deadline for submissions: 19 December 2025

Info: international-seminar-ocean.my.canva.site

#envhum #envhist #ecolit #bluehumanities

Poster for the seminar, featuring a ocean waves on a blue background.

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Siobhan Leachman @siobhanleachman.bsky.social · 3d

As part of my Wikimedian in Residence position at the Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research Group of the Bioeconomy Science Institute I've recently created documentation on linking publications to Natural History Collections in #Wikidata doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Linking publications to collections : adding cites work, uses or acknowledged statements to Wikidata

This resource outlines simple workflows for adding “cites work”, “uses” and “acknowledges” statements to Wikidata items for publications. These statements link publications to natural history collecti...

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