Humanities and Social Sciences, Cornwall

Dr Nicola Whyte

Dr Nicola Whyte

Associate Professor
History at Penryn

Nicola Whyte is Associate Professor of landscape and history at the University of Exeter where she is co-Director of the Centre for Environmental Arts and Humanities. She has published widely on environmental and social entanglements in the early modern and post-medieval periods. She is particularly interested in transdisciplinary approaches, crossing temporal and spatial boundaries and working with archival fragments to bring into view alternative pasts that help re-envisage the present and future at a time of climate and ecological crisis.
 
For further information including publications and events see http://www.exeter.ac.uk/esi/research/centreforenvironmentalartsandhumanities/, and Earth Humanities Global Network https://www.earthhumanities.com/
 

Biography:

I am originally from Norfolk. I studied as an undergraduate and postgraduate at the University of East Anglia in the School of History. My PhD thesis, supervised by Professor Tom Williamson, examined plebeian perceptions and experiences of the landscape in Norfolk villages between c.1500 and 1800. I was awarded my doctorate in 2006. My thesis formed the basis of my first book, Inhabiting the Landscape: Place, Custom and Memory 1500-1800 (2009). Since finishing my doctorate I worked with Professor Andy Wood (UEA) as his Research Assistant on an AHRC funded project investigating custom and popular memory in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In 2008 I was awarded a two year Early Career Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust to carry out research on 'Landscape, Memory and Identity in Early Modern Wales'. I have also held a temporary full-time post as Lecturer in Early Modern History at Cardiff University (2007-08). In September 2009, I joined the University of Exeter as Lecturer in History.

 

Summary

Since 2009 University of Exeter, Senior Lecturer in History

2009-2010 University of Exeter, Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2nd year)

2008-2009 University of East Anglia, Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (1st year)

2007-2008 Cardiff University Lecturer in Early Modern History (fixed-term).

2004-2007 University of East Anglia, Postdoctoral Research Assistant on ‘Custom and popular senses of the past in early modern England’ under Prof. Andy Wood (AHRC).

2001-2005 University of East Anglia, AHRB Doctoral Studentship.


Research supervision:

I would be pleased to supervise anyone wishing to research the social, landscape and environmental history of the early modern and post-medieval period. I'm interested in a range of topics including theoretical approaches to landscape, place and belonging. Landscape and memory, and the uses of the past in the past. Farming practices and proto-industrial activities. Landscape representation, maps, literature. Household, gender relations and the history of everyday life.

 


Other:

Co-director of the Centre for Environmental Arts and Humanities, Environment and Sustainability Institute, Cornwall Campus, University of Exeter http://www.exeter.ac.uk/esi/research/ceah/

Editorial Board Member of Landscapes http://www.maneypublishing.com/index.php/journals/lan, 2012 - date

Executive Committee Member, British Agricultural History Society, 2012 - date

 

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