Dr. Jim Clifford Faculty

Jim Clifford is an environmental and digital historian of nineteenth century London and the British World. He uses text-mining and HGIS to explore the connections between rapid industrialization and urbanization in London and environmental transformations in other parts of the world. Alongside this research, he also is a co-editor of ActiveHistory.ca and a part of the Network in Canadian History & Environment website team. He is an associate professor in the Department of History here at the University of Saskatchewan and the author of West Ham and the River Lea A Social and Environmental History of London’s Industrialized Marshland, 1839–1914.