Mica Jorgenson is an Environmental Historian of natural resources. Her most recent work is on boreal forestry and fire, but she has also worked on the Canadian gold mining industry. She works across academic and public sectors in Norway and Canada.

Popular publications

Living with Smoke: Lessons from the Chinchaga Fire (2023)

“Living With Smoke” is a graphic novel produced with the support of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship held at the University of Stavanger, Norway. It documents how our relationship with smoke has changed over time and describes fire as both stewardship tool and symptom of a warming climate.

• 2023 “Living with Smoke: Lessons from the Chinchaga Fire,” graphic novel produced in collaboration with Petroglyph Studios. The novel is also archived on this website.

Fire Stories: Encountering Wildfire in the Archives and on the Land (2022)

Fire Stories is an interdisciplinary collection essays published with the Network in Canadian Histories for the Environment (NiCHE). The collection includes work from ecologists, historians, public servants, anthropologists, and geographers and was curated and edited by Mica Jorgenson.

• 2022 (Editor) Fire Stories: Encountering Wildfire in the Archives and on the Land. A Network in in Canadian Histories for the Environment (NiCHE) series. 26 August – 5 October.

Dust versus Dust: Aluminum Therapy and Silicosis in the Canadian and Global Mining Industries (2021)

“Dust versus Dust” (co-authored with John Sandlos) is a peer reviewed article in the Canadian Historical Review documenting the use of aluminum powder to combat silicosis in gold miners in the 20th century.

• 2021 (with John Sandlos) “Dust versus Dust: Aluminum Therapy and Silicosis in the Canadian and Global Mining Industries,” Canadian Historical Review 102, issue 1 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.3138/chr-2019-0049).