@davidjmccaskey
Ocean historian. Instructor, History and Philosophy Dept., SUNY Old Westbury. Studying the history of oceanography and fisheries development in Vietnam and Cambodia. Interests include Vietnam, fisheries, STS, decolonization, aquariums, borders, fish.
I think I've created my best slide yet, for the historiography class meeting entitled "Nonhuman Agency and Animal History: What do Animals Know? Do They Know Things? Let’s Find Out!"
I'll be teaching it again next semester, does anyone have favorite foundational/interesting essays or chapters to discuss with undergrads? I'm always looking to make my historiography class more international by assigning important works about Asia, Africa, Latin America, etc.
One semester in, I think I've learned more about historiography and historical methods by teaching it to undergrads than I ever did as a grad student myself. Teaching something really is the best way to learn it.
"In October 1907, the USS Albatross departed San Francisco and steamed westward toward the Philippines. The 61-meter-long craft, operated by the U.S. Fish Commission, was the world’s first ship purposely built for research, and this would be its longest expedition."
🌊🌊🌊New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊
@davidjmccaskey.bsky.social (@sunyoldwestbury.bsky.social) on Stefan Huebner, @nadinhee.bsky.social, Ian J. Miller, & William M. Tsutsui’s ed vol _Oceanic Japan: The Archipelago in Pacific & Global History_ pub 2024 @ Uni of Hawai'i Press
Review @hnetreviews.bsky.social
Somewhat belated announcement (as the semester has already started), but I'm excited to tell you all that I have just begun teaching world history full-time at SUNY Old Westbury. Stop by and say hi if you're in Long Island/NYC!
Successfully defended! Dr. McCaskey, at long last.
Poster advertising David McCaskey's dissertation defense at the University of California, Riverside, on 27 May from 3PM to 5:30PM
At last, I am entering the final stages of my PhD! Drop by if you're around. We may be able to set up a hybrid-thing, so PM me if you want the Zoom link (when we figure it out).
New article out in Saigoneer! My thoughts on Vietnam's new military history museum:
saigoneer.com/hanoi-herita...
Check out @davidjmccaskey.bsky.social's review of Abby Seiff's "Troubling the Water: A Dying Lake and a Vanishing World in Cambodia," published in 2022 by @univnebpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #water
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Remember to join the Consortium for the history of science's #oceanhist #maritime group as we discuss @davidjmccaskey.bsky.social's paper "Net Losses: The Failures and Successes of Trawling in French Indochina" at 1-2:30 CT #histsci #envhist #envhum 🐟⚓️⛵️
www.chstm.org/group/histor...
Please share our CFP for the annual Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History. Submissions due by 15 March 2025. oceansciencehistory.com/2025/01/06/c...
“The ‘Plague Minnow’ and the Climbing Perch: Introducing Mosquitofish to Fight Malaria in Colonial French Indochina”
Association for Environmental History Ann. Con.
April 9-13, 2025. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pasteur Inst. introduces mosquitofish to Indochina to fight malaria. It goes poorly.
“The Great Dispenser of Ichthyological Wealth in Indochina: Science, Regulation, and Fish in French Colonial Cambodia’s Tonlé Sap Lake”
Association for Asian Studies Ann. Con.
March 13-16, 2025. Columbus, Ohio
French scientists mess with trad'l fishing rights in Cambodia.
“Net Losses: The Successes and Failures of Trawling in French Indochina”
Consortium working group on History of Ocean Science, Technology, and Medicine (CHSTM)
February 18. Online!
Join here -> www.chstm.org/group/histor...
A story of how oceanographers made an int'l border over fishing rights.
“Shell Game: Exploiting and Protecting Sea Turtles in French Colonial Vietnam and Cambodia”
East-West Center Int'l Grad Student Conference
February 13-16. UH Mānoa (my alma mater) – Honolulu, Hawai‘i
A story about different fishing communities fighting (literally) over turtles on some islands.
Spring touring schedule out! Come hear me talk about aquatic environments, French colonialism, and other fun things at the following conferences over the next three months:
I'm in Hanoi until 19 Jan, any researchers in Vietnam right now want to meet up for a coffee?
So ... who else belongs in an OceansHSTM starter pack? go.bsky.app/CKYMfBU
Check out @davidjmccaskey.bsky.social's review of Kevin C. Brown's "Devils Hole Pupfish: The Unexpected Survival of an Endangered Species in the Modern American West," published in 2021 by University of Nevada Press; review now available on H-Net #envhist #envhum 🐟
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Check out @davidjmccaskey.bsky.social y (UCRiverside)’s review of Paul Kreitman (Columbia University)’s book _Japan's Ocean Borderlands: Nature & Sovereignty, published 2023 Cambridge University Press
Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social:
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
Are you a new scholar working on maritime history?
Consider applying to the British Commission for Maritime History's New Researchers Conference!
Excited to host this at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow on 22-23 March 2024⛵️
See details below! Submit here: forms.gle/NRvgsE4oaP6K...
I have made the leap! Hello, Blue Skies
