William Knight, PhD
Curator, Agriculture and Fisheries
Biography
William Knight joined Ingenium in 2014 after obtaining a PhD in Canadian history at Carleton University in Ottawa. Will specializes in the history of fisheries, focusing on fish culture and introduced species. He is also interested in the histories of scientific modelling, museums, and exhibitions, and has published in some of these topics in addition to fisheries. Will is managing editor of Scientia Canadensis and past president of the Canadian Science and Technology Historical Association. His home at Ingenium is the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum where, with the museum’s team, he develops research and exhibition projects. Will enjoys birding, fishing, gardening, and sailing.
Areas of expertise
- Fisheries
- Agriculture
- Museums
- Exhibitions
- Environmental history
Publications
The Pacific Salmon Experiment in Northern Ontario and the ‘Indian Problem’
Appears in Environmental History 28, no. 3 (2023). Co-authored with Kiethen Sutherland.
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Appears in Social History/histoire sociale, 54, no. 111 (2021): 311-334.
Fish Out of Water: Fish Exhibition in Late Nineteenth Century Canada
Appears in Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Canada. Ed. Joanna Dean, Christabelle Sethna, and Darcy Ingram. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2017. Pp. 115-138.
Research projects
Indigenous foodways
The project’s broad goals are to recognize Indigenous traditions and innovations in foodways, respect Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing, and reflect Indigenous knowledge, traditions, and innovations in exhibitions and programming.
