Colin Fisher
Biographic Data
| ID | 3730831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colin Fisher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colin |
| FAMILY NAME | Fisher |
| SIGNATURE | FISHER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of San Diego |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-3982-8836 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
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Annette Lassen. The Sagas of Icelanders
Annette Lassen. The Sagas of Icelanders: An Introduction to All Forty Sagas with Summaries. An article from journal Scandinavian-Canadian Studies / Études scandinaves au Canada (Volume 32, 2025), on Érudit
Green Is the Color of the Luxuriant Vegetation of Our Motherland”
Like other nationalists of the early twentieth century, the Harlem-based Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey invoked landscape to rally potential citizens across lines of difference and imagine national community. The centrality he and his organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), gave to nature can be seen in the Pan-African flag, the green stripe of which symbolized the “luxuriant vegetation of our Motherland.” But unlike Europ…
Biotic Borders
Journal Article Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890–1950 Get access Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890–1950. By Jeannie N Shinozuka. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 306 pp. Cloth, $95.00. Paper, $30.00.) Colin Fisher Colin Fisher University of San Diego, San Diego, California Search for other …
Antebellum Black Climate Science
This article argues that two prominent antebellum Black physicians—James McCune Smith and Martin Delany—developed competing scientific theories of nature’s impact on the human body in response to the climatic theories of the American Colonization Society, polygenist race scientists, and southern defenders of slavery. It further argues that the physicians’ divergent conclusions regarding nature’s agency played a significant role in underwriting ar…
Multicultural Wilderness
Wilderness parks in the United States are often described as landscapes of leisure for affluent white nature tourists. This article challenges that interpretation by exploring visitation to the Cook County Forest Preserves and the Indiana Dunes State Park, two Chicago-area wilderness parks that during the early twentieth century attracted far more visitors than all of the national parks combined. The author argues that if we turn our gaze from ra…
Sinking Chicago
B rian M c C ammack . Landscapes of Hope
Brian McCammack’s Landscapes of Hope is a welcome addition to scholarship that explores how marginalized people knew nature through leisure. The focus on leisure takes us beyond an environmental justice framework that often foregrounds victimization and opens the door to exploring the complicated ways that the disadvantaged creatively used nature for place-making and community building. When southern blacks moved north to Chicago during and after…
Liquid capital
Slaughterhouse
Book Review| July 01 2017 Slaughterhouse: Chicago’s Union Stock Yard and the World It Made Slaughterhouse: Chicago’s Union Stock Yard and the World It Made. Dominic A. Pacyga. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. xvii + 233 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $26 (cloth). Colin Fisher Colin Fisher University of San Diego Colin Fisher is Associate Professor of History at the University of San Diego. He is the author of Urban Green: Nature,…
Nature in “The Jungle”
Nature in “The Jungle”Ethnic Workers, Environmental Inequalities, and Subaltern Cultures of Nature in Chicago’s Packingtown Colin Fisher (bio) Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest in the little window-sill gardens of the poor, though perhaps only a geranium slip in a broken cup. —John Muir, The Y…
Sensing Chicago
How did Chicagoans smell, taste, feel, hear, and see their city during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Answering this question is Adam Mack's objective in Sensing Chicago, an addition to the growing literature on the history of the senses. His thesis is that “elites” used their five senses “as barometers of civic health and social distinction” (p. 2). To demonstrate his point, Mack takes readers on a tour, documenting how privi…
Nature in the City
Journal Article Nature in the City: Urban Environmental History and Central Park Get access Colin Fisher Colin Fisher Colin Fisher is an associate professor of history at the University of San Diego. He is currently finishing a book entitled Urban Green: A Social History of Nature in Chicago. He has published an article on the 1919 Chicago race riot and natural space in "To Love the Wind and Rain": Essays in African American Environmental History…
The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race
In The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race, Bruce Baum, a political scientist at the University of British Columbia, explores the cultural construction of Caucasian racial identity in Europe and in the United States, from the eighteenth century to the present. By exploring the invention and reification of "the Caucasian," Baum contributes to the larger project of historicizing whiteness advanced by David Roediger, Noel Ignatiev, Matthew Frye Jaco…
Forgotten Fires
Journal Article Forgotten Fires: Native Americans and the Transient Wilderness Get access Forgotten Fires: Native Americans and the Transient Wilderness. By Stewart Omer C.. Edited and with introductions by Lewis Henry T. Anderson M. Kat. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. xi + 364 pp. Illustration, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.) Colin Fisher Colin Fisher University of San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Australian Industrial Relations
Biotic Borders
Journal Article Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890–1950 Get access Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890–1950. By Jeannie N Shinozuka. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 306 pp. Cloth, $95.00. Paper, $30.00.) Colin Fisher Colin Fisher University of San Diego, San Diego, California Search for other …
Antebellum Black Climate Science
This article argues that two prominent antebellum Black physicians—James McCune Smith and Martin Delany—developed competing scientific theories of nature’s impact on the human body in response to the climatic theories of the American Colonization Society, polygenist race scientists, and southern defenders of slavery. It further argues that the physicians’ divergent conclusions regarding nature’s agency played a significant role in underwriting ar…
Sinking Chicago
Sensing Chicago
How did Chicagoans smell, taste, feel, hear, and see their city during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Answering this question is Adam Mack's objective in Sensing Chicago, an addition to the growing literature on the history of the senses. His thesis is that “elites” used their five senses “as barometers of civic health and social distinction” (p. 2). To demonstrate his point, Mack takes readers on a tour, documenting how privi…
Australian Industrial Relations
Forgotten Fires
Journal Article Forgotten Fires: Native Americans and the Transient Wilderness Get access Forgotten Fires: Native Americans and the Transient Wilderness. By Stewart Omer C.. Edited and with introductions by Lewis Henry T. Anderson M. Kat. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. xi + 364 pp. Illustration, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.) Colin Fisher Colin Fisher University of San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race
In The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race, Bruce Baum, a political scientist at the University of British Columbia, explores the cultural construction of Caucasian racial identity in Europe and in the United States, from the eighteenth century to the present. By exploring the invention and reification of "the Caucasian," Baum contributes to the larger project of historicizing whiteness advanced by David Roediger, Noel Ignatiev, Matthew Frye Jaco…
Nature in the City
Journal Article Nature in the City: Urban Environmental History and Central Park Get access Colin Fisher Colin Fisher Colin Fisher is an associate professor of history at the University of San Diego. He is currently finishing a book entitled Urban Green: A Social History of Nature in Chicago. He has published an article on the 1919 Chicago race riot and natural space in "To Love the Wind and Rain": Essays in African American Environmental History…
Nature in “The Jungle”
Nature in “The Jungle”Ethnic Workers, Environmental Inequalities, and Subaltern Cultures of Nature in Chicago’s Packingtown Colin Fisher (bio) Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest in the little window-sill gardens of the poor, though perhaps only a geranium slip in a broken cup. —John Muir, The Y…
Sensing Chicago
How did Chicagoans smell, taste, feel, hear, and see their city during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Answering this question is Adam Mack's objective in Sensing Chicago, an addition to the growing literature on the history of the senses. His thesis is that “elites” used their five senses “as barometers of civic health and social distinction” (p. 2). To demonstrate his point, Mack takes readers on a tour, documenting how privi…
Slaughterhouse
Book Review| July 01 2017 Slaughterhouse: Chicago’s Union Stock Yard and the World It Made Slaughterhouse: Chicago’s Union Stock Yard and the World It Made. Dominic A. Pacyga. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. xvii + 233 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $26 (cloth). Colin Fisher Colin Fisher University of San Diego Colin Fisher is Associate Professor of History at the University of San Diego. He is the author of Urban Green: Nature,…
Liquid capital
B rian M c C ammack . Landscapes of Hope
Brian McCammack’s Landscapes of Hope is a welcome addition to scholarship that explores how marginalized people knew nature through leisure. The focus on leisure takes us beyond an environmental justice framework that often foregrounds victimization and opens the door to exploring the complicated ways that the disadvantaged creatively used nature for place-making and community building. When southern blacks moved north to Chicago during and after…
Multicultural Wilderness
Wilderness parks in the United States are often described as landscapes of leisure for affluent white nature tourists. This article challenges that interpretation by exploring visitation to the Cook County Forest Preserves and the Indiana Dunes State Park, two Chicago-area wilderness parks that during the early twentieth century attracted far more visitors than all of the national parks combined. The author argues that if we turn our gaze from ra…
Sinking Chicago
Antebellum Black Climate Science
This article argues that two prominent antebellum Black physicians—James McCune Smith and Martin Delany—developed competing scientific theories of nature’s impact on the human body in response to the climatic theories of the American Colonization Society, polygenist race scientists, and southern defenders of slavery. It further argues that the physicians’ divergent conclusions regarding nature’s agency played a significant role in underwriting ar…
Green Is the Color of the Luxuriant Vegetation of Our Motherland”
Like other nationalists of the early twentieth century, the Harlem-based Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey invoked landscape to rally potential citizens across lines of difference and imagine national community. The centrality he and his organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), gave to nature can be seen in the Pan-African flag, the green stripe of which symbolized the “luxuriant vegetation of our Motherland.” But unlike Europ…
Biotic Borders
Journal Article Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890–1950 Get access Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890–1950. By Jeannie N Shinozuka. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 306 pp. Cloth, $95.00. Paper, $30.00.) Colin Fisher Colin Fisher University of San Diego, San Diego, California Search for other …
Annette Lassen. The Sagas of Icelanders
Annette Lassen. The Sagas of Icelanders: An Introduction to All Forty Sagas with Summaries. An article from journal Scandinavian-Canadian Studies / Études scandinaves au Canada (Volume 32, 2025), on Érudit
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