Jennifer Bonnell

Jennifer Bonnell is a historian of public memory and environmental change in nineteenth and twentieth-century Canada. She is the author or co-editor of four books: Stewards of Splendour: A History of Wildlife and People in British Columbia (Royal British Columbia Museum, 2023); Reclaiming the Don: An Environmental History of Toronto’s Don River Valley (University of Toronto Press, 2014); Traces of the Animal Past: Methodological Challenges in Animal History (University of Calgary Press, 2022); and Historical GIS Research in Canada (University of Calgary Press, 2014). She teaches Canadian and environmental history at York University in Toronto, Canada.

Her current book project, Foragers of a Modern Countryside: Honeybees, Environmental Change, and Beekeeper Advocacy in the Great Lakes Region, will be published by the University of Washington Press’s Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series.