Liza Piper is an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton where she teaches environmental history and the histories of northern and western Canada. Her publications include The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada (2009) and Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments (2015) an edited collection of eco-criticism, art, poetry, and environmental history. Her research and writing examine the histories of health and environmental change, natural resource exploitation, and science.