Adcock, Tina

Areas of interest

I am a cultural and environmental historian of northern and western Canada. I have published a book-length study of modern exploration in the Canadian North. I have also edited two volumes on science, technology, and the environment in Canadian history.

My current research investigates the history of oil in Alberta, and the history of queer women in western Canada. I am working on a scientific and environmental history of the Alberta oil sands prior to their commercial development (c. 1913鈥�51). I鈥檓 also pursuing article-length projects on queer women couples in Alberta and in British Columbia, as well as on women workers in the oil industry and 鈥渙il wives鈥� in post-1947 Alberta.

Biography

I was born and raised in Edmonton, a city traditionally regarded as the 鈥済ateway to the North.鈥� I first became interested in northern history while pursuing my undergraduate degree at the University of Alberta, where I undertook research funded in part through the Canadian Circumpolar Institute. I then (somewhat counterintuitively) decided to continue my study of northern Canada in England, at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge. After completing my PhD in 2010, I held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of British Columbia and Rutgers and a tenure-track appointment at the University of Maine. I joined 911吃瓜鈥檚 History department in 2014.