In line with the IOWC’s pedagogical commitments to getting McGill undergraduate students hands-on research experience, Project Manager Philip Gooding and undergraduate Research Assistant Nadia Fekih have two recent publications related to their ongoing research into the environmental history of early Dutch colonization in South Africa:
- A peer reviewed journal article: Philip Gooding and Nadia Fekih, ‘A climate history of early Dutch settlement at Cape Town, 1652-62.’ Journal of Southern African Studies, 50, 1 (2024), 49-68.
- An academic blog post: Nadia Fekih, ‘Digitizing and Visualizing Climate in Early Cape Colony,’ NiCHE (12 Sep. 2024)
This research project illustrate several key research commitments at the IOWC: the importance of historical documentary sources for climate reconstruction, the significance of human-environment interaction as a catalyst for historical continuity and change, and the student training and participation in research.
Nadia and Philip also discuss their research collaboration on two episodes of the Indian Ocean World Podcast:
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