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Daniel Macfarlane

Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainability, Western Michigan University

Dr. Daniel Macfarlane is an Associate Professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at Western Michigan University, where he teaches courses on water policy and political ecology. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Bill Graham Center for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto, and the current President of the International Water History Association. A former Fulbright Research Chair and Banting Fellow, Daniel received his PhD in History from the University of Ottawa in 2011.

Daniel is the author or co-editor of 4 books on Canada-US border waters: Negotiating a River: Canada, the US, and the Creation of the St. Lawrence Seaway (2014); Border Flows: A Century of the Canadian-American Relationship (2016); The First Century of the International Joint Commission (2020); and Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World's Most Famous Waterfall (2020). He has published other works on the history of Great Lakes water levels, Canada-US environmental relations, and hydroelectricity.

Currently, Daniel is completing two books: one is a transnational environmental history of Lake Ontario, the other looks at the history of US-Canada environmental and energy relations.

Experience

  • –present
    Associate Professor of Freshwater Policy, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Western MIchigan University , Western Michigan University

Education

  • 2011 
    University of Ottawa, PhD