Dr Nicola Whyte

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. In her historical research she explores inter- and trans-disciplinary theories and methods,crossing temporal and spatial boundaries. She is particularly interested in the social and landscape contexts of custom, place, memory and identity, and how contemporaries interpreted, appropriated and re-used the physical remains of the past.

 

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/

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.