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Dr Alice C P Would serves as Lecturer in Imperial and Environmental History at the University of Bristol's Department of History. She is a core faculty member for the Environmental Humanities MA program, Director of the Environmental Humanities Summer School, and co-Events Officer for the Centre for Environmental Humanities steering committee. Her institutional roles include former Study Abroad Academic Director for History and Centre for Environmental Humanities administrator.
Her educational background comprises a BA, MPhil, and PhD. Her doctoral thesis Taxidermy Time: Fleshing Out the Animals of British Taxidermy in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1820-1914 (2021) was supervised by Professors P. A. Coates and B. Onciul at Bristol.
Would specializes in environmental and imperial history with focus on animal-human relationships across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her research integrates material culture, embodied approaches, and temporal dimensions through interdisciplinary lenses including sensory studies and disability theory. Current work interrogates environmental experiences of time, while her forthcoming monograph Skinning Empire examines colonial taxidermy networks. She champions engaged pedagogy for environmental sustainability.
Her publication portfolio reveals consistent thematic threads: colonial animal economies, sensory adaptation of nocturnal creatures, and temporal dimensions of environmental history. Works frequently bridge disability studies with more-than-human perspectives, demonstrating methodological innovation through embodied and material approaches to imperial history.
- Scientific Awards:
- Tallinn Dissertation Prize in European Environmental History (2023)
Research funding includes an AHRC project on 'Dark-dwellers as more-than-human misfits' (as Research Associate) and the 2025-2026 'Reimagining Curriculums: Natural History' project where she serves as Principal Investigator. She teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate levels including Environment and History (MA), Global Empires, and War and Society.
Would actively shapes environmental humanities infrastructure through the Centre for Environmental Humanities and its annual Summer School, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration on sustainability and decolonial approaches to historical practice.
