Liza Piper

Liza Piper is a Professor in the Department of History, Classics, & Religion at the University of Alberta's Faculty of Arts. She specializes in environmental history with a focus on northern and western Canada, examining the interplay between human activity and non-human natural elements like pathogens, minerals, and climate. Her research addresses settler colonialism, industrialization, resource politics, and environmental activism.

Education: PhD in History (not explicitly stated but implied by professorship).

Research Interests: Colonial histories of epidemics, industrial resource extraction in the Rocky Mountains, and the agency of non-human elements in shaping historical processes. Current projects include SSHRC-funded studies on post-1947 resource extraction in Alberta's Eastern Foothills and a book exploring northern disease histories.

Grants & Projects: SSHRC-funded research on Rocky Mountains' industrialization and environmental activism. Collaborations include co-editing Environmental Activism on the Ground (2019) with Jon Clapperton.

Labs/Teams: Engages with interdisciplinary environmental humanities networks and collaborates with historians of science and Indigenous studies scholars.