Matt Plishka @mplishka523
Collaborative Humanities Postdoc at Vanderbilt University | Multispecies political ecology, small farmers, bananas, diseases, Jamaica | He/Him Joined November 2009-
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Our bumper, 30th-anniversary issue comprises 5 commissioned articles, 2 snapshots and 4 research articles, exploring (among many other topics) banana disease, flooding in medieval and early modern flooding Hull and multi-species toxic histories! #envhist liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/wh…
It is an honor to receive the Best Dissertation Award from the Caribbean Studies Association!
It is an honor to receive the Best Dissertation Award from the Caribbean Studies Association!
🚨New Book Review!🚨Plishka on Loperena, 'The Ends of Paradise: Race, Extraction, and the Struggle for Black Life in Honduras' Read full review here: ift.tt/g3WVGBK #HNetReviews #BookReview
Dr Matthew Plishka @mplishka523 is a postdoctoral researcher looking into the social and environmental history of late colonial Jamaica to examine how Afro-Jamaican small-scale farmers navigated economic & ecological crises within the wider context of British colonial policies.
So grateful to @BL_EcclesCentre for this opportunity to continue my research at The British Library! I'm looking forward to further developing my manuscript on banana blight in colonial Jamaica.
So grateful to @BL_EcclesCentre for this opportunity to continue my research at The British Library! I'm looking forward to further developing my manuscript on banana blight in colonial Jamaica.
From #envhist Today series edited by @soens_tim : #envhist meets #politicalecology & STS with presentations by @samgrinsell and @mplishka523 youtube.com/watch?v=xBa6_9…
ICYMI: "We must reorient our relationship toward nature, recognizing our place within a larger ecosystem, rather than viewing ourselves above it," writes @mplishka523 in #AHAPerspectives. "Historians have a key role to play in this reorientation."historians.org/publications-a…
"We must reorient our relationship toward nature, recognizing our place within a larger ecosystem, rather than viewing ourselves above it," writes #AHAPerspectives summer columnist @mplishka523. "Historians have a key role to play in this reorientation."historians.org/publications-a…
#AHAPerspectives summer columnist @mplishka523 writes, "As historians continue to explore past societies, taking a cue from multispecies studies can help more fully reveal the myriad forces that helped form these communities." historians.org/publications-a…
Excited to share my second #AHAPerspectives column on the relationship between humans and the environment!
Excited to share my second #AHAPerspectives column on the relationship between humans and the environment!
ICYMI: "The case of Panama Disease in colonial-era Jamaica offers historians the opportunity to study past practices of disease control and the political fights that accompanied these efforts," writes #AHAPerspectives summer columnist @mplishka523. historians.org/publications-a…
"The case of Panama Disease in colonial-era Jamaica offers historians the opportunity to study past practices of disease control and the political fights that accompanied these efforts," writes #AHAPerspectives summer columnist @mplishka523. historians.org/publications-a…
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Thrilled to share my first #AHAPerspectives column on the parallels between plant and human disease management!
Thrilled to share my first #AHAPerspectives column on the parallels between plant and human disease management!
Congratulations to the #AHAPerspectives summer columnists! @hayleyrbowman, @bobbycervantes, and @mplishka523 will share insights about their scholarship, pedagogy, and work experiences in their forthcoming Perspectives Daily columns. historians.org/publications-a…
Thrilled to be a part of this series! Thanks to @lmansley and @AEBowenPhD for putting it together!
Thrilled to be a part of this series! Thanks to @lmansley and @AEBowenPhD for putting it together!
WOW! Thanks SO much to Malar and @mplishka523, Kathy and @LizEgan09 for providing a beautiful finale to our first series of Culture, Things, Empire - such a fitting end to a series that we've loved to host! See everyone in a month for Series 2... details to come soon... 🥳🎉 🥳
WOW! Thanks SO much to Malar and @mplishka523, Kathy and @LizEgan09 for providing a beautiful finale to our first series of Culture, Things, Empire - such a fitting end to a series that we've loved to host! See everyone in a month for Series 2... details to come soon... 🥳🎉 🥳
Join us 4/26 @ 10AM for a lightning-style roundtable “NEW APPROACHES TO POLITICAL ECOLOGY” part of @ASEH_org's #EHW2021 featuring some outstanding graduate students doing #envhist and @DrMaryDraper as discussant! @MollyWarsh @RuthMostern Register now! bit.ly/3sjxL0d

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