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Distinguished Visiting Scholars

The Scheme:

The Visiting Scholar Scheme was established some years ago to enable eminent scholars from outside of the UK to be invited to visit the School for a period of one or two weeks. These distinguished academics have interacted with staff on research matters, delivered a seminar in the School, and taken on a few other duties such as presenting one or two lectures to undergraduate classes and meeting with post-graduate students.

2013 SSC Distinguished Visiting Scholar:

Our visiting scholar this academic year is Harriet Ritvo, Arthur J. Conner Professor of History at MIT.  She will be here from Monday 22nd April to Friday 26th April. Her areas of expertise are environmental history, the history of human-animal relations and the history of natural history. Her books include: The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism (Chicago UP, 2009); The Platypus and the Mermaid, and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination (Harvard UP, 1997); The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age (Harvard UP, 1987); and Noble Cows and Hybrid Zebras: Essays on Animals and History (Virginia, 2010). She is currently working on wildness and animals.  She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and past President of the American Society for Environmental History.

SSC 2013 Distinguished Visiting Scholar Research Seminar

Thursday April 25: 3pm in Room 01-009, Elmwood Building (Geography), QUB

Title: Achieving endangerment: breeds, species and degrees of difference

Professor Ritvo will also be leading a discussion of the SSC reading group.  Details available here. 

 Previous SSC Visiting Scholars:

  • Professor John Agnew (Department of Geography, UCLA) Spring 2003
  • Professor Trevor Barnes (Department of Geography, UBC) Spring 2003
  • Professor Jamie Peck (Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin) Spring 2004
  • Professor Neil Smith (Department of Anthropology, CUNY) Autumn 2005
  • Professor Derek Gregory (Department of Geography, UBC) Spring 2005
  • Professor Anne Godlewska (Department of Geography, Queen's University, Ontario) Spring 2007
  • Professor Nick Blomley (Deparment of Geography, Simon Fraser University) Spring 2008
  • Professor Oren Yiftachel (Department of Geography and Environmental Development, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel), Spring 2009
  • Dr Natalia Lozovsky (University of California, Berkely), Summer 2010
  • Professor Nicolaas Rupke (University of Göttingen), Spring 2011