Jason M. Colby - Political and Environmental
History
Jason Colby grew up on Bainbridge Island. He is currently
associate professor of environmental and international history at the
University of Victoria and previously worked as a commercial fisherman in
Alaska and Washington State. Colby has written two books:
The Business of Empire: United Fruit, Race, and
US Expansion in Central America (2013) and
Orca:
How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator(2018). The latter describes how our cultural views of orca have changed over
time. Drawing on interviews, official records, private archives and his own
family history, this is the definitive history of how the once feared and
despised "killer" became the beloved "Orca" - and what that
has meant for our relationship with the ocean and its creatures.
