My name is Tina Adcock (pronouns: she/her).
I’m a settler who lives and works on lands owned since time immemorial by the səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ, kʷikʷəƛ̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm nations in what is today eastern metropolitan Vancouver, British Columbia. I grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, on Treaty 6 territory. My family roots lie in Treaty 6 and Treaty 4 territories in rural Saskatchewan as well as in western Ukraine.
I’m an associate professor in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University. You can visit my departmental webpage here, which includes my contact information.
I received my BA (Honours) in History from the University of Alberta and my MPhil and PhD, both in Polar Studies, from the Scott Polar Research Institute / Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge.
I am a cultural and environmental historian of northern and western Canada. I’m the author of A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North (UBC Press, 2025). I’m also the editor (with Edward Jones-Imhotep) of Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History (UBC Press, 2018) and Landscapes of Science (NiCHE, 2019, open-access).
My current research lies in two fields: oil history, and the history of queer women.
At SFU, I teach courses and supervise projects on Canadian history and environmental history. I am also a member of the History department’s Decolonization and Indigenization Working Group.
I have a longstanding commitment to digital history. I have edited and published in multiple collaborative academic blogs throughout my career and have co-authored a peer-reviewed article about Canadian historical blogs. Currently I serve as one of the editors of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews.
You can find me on Bluesky here.