Vanessa Bateman

Vanessa Bateman is a historian of visual culture and media, nonhuman animals, and the environment. She is the co-editor of Globalizing Wildlife (University of North Carolina Press, 2026) and is currently writing a book on the intersection of avian visual media and grassroots environmentalism in 20th century North America. From 2025–2027 she is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at Trent University and was a postdoctoral researcher on the project Moving Animals: A History of Science, Media, and Policy in the Twentieth Century at Maastricht University. Vanessa holds a PhD in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from UC San Diego with a Specialization in Anthropogeny from the Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny. Her time as a CARTA student played a key role in shaping her turn toward interdisciplinary research at the intersection of the history of science and the Environmental Humanities.