North American Environmental History, Perspectives on Land and Place
Hannah is a scholar of North American environmental history. Her research and teaching highlights how people have related to land and the places they call home, historically and into the present. Her work considers questions of structural violence, race, and colonialism in the history of environmental change. Hannah’s upcoming chapter, “Soil Futures: Environmental Management as Care in Mary Ann Shadd Cary’s Plea for Emigration”, part of the edited volume Land Management in North American Literature and Culture: From Resource to Reciprocity, is forthcoming from Routledge Press. In this chapter, Hannah analyzes Mary Ann Shadd Cary’s landmark pamphlet “A Plea for Emigration” to understand her as an environmental writer, illustrating with greater fullness how Shadd Cary’s thoughts on land management are part of a Black radical ethic of care.