David J. McCaskey

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.

DNA from rum-soaked fishes chronicles century of environmental change Museum specimens collected during a 1907 marine expedition reveal loss of genetic diversity in the Philippines

"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."

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@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).

Bảo tàng Lịch sử Quân sự Việt Nam: Kho tàng lịch sử hào hùng qua lăng kính mới | Saigoneer Lúc bàn với ban biên tập Saigoneer về ý tưởng viết bài về Bảo tàng Lịch sử Quân sự Việt Nam ở Hà Nội, tôi đã nghĩ chắc nó cũng sẽ chẳng có gì quá đặc biệt. ...

Link tiếng Việt đây:

saigoneer.com/vn/heritage/...

Insights, Polished History Lessons Await in Hanoi's Massive, Brutalist Military Museum | Saigoneer When I pitched a review of Hanoi’s massive new Vietnam Military History Museum to the Saigoneer editorial staff, I expected to find the museum somewhat boring. After all, although I am a historian, I ...

New article out in Saigoneer! My thoughts on Vietnam's new military history museum:

saigoneer.com/hanoi-herita...

In Vietnam’s Streets and Factories, Boom Built on U.S. Trade Suddenly Looks Fragile As Trump’s 46% tariffs loom, one furniture factory owner has a sore throat from talking to so many customers to renegotiate orders.

My first quote in an American paper:

www.wsj.com/world/asia/i...

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
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

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...

CFP Announcement: 2025 Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History The DHST Commission on the History of Oceanography (ICHO) announces the annual Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize for outstanding papers addressing some aspect of ocean history, …

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 🐟
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

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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