Anna Guasco

Publications & Media

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Google Scholar | ORCID

• Guasco, A. (2025) “Animals and Extinction Studies,” in Oxford Bibliography in Environmental History. Link.

• Guasco, A. (2024) “From Devil-Fish to Friendly Whale? Encountering Gray Whales on The California Coast,” Environment and History, 30(3). Journal Link; Green Open Access Link.
  • Awarded honorable mention for 2024 Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History.

• Bruun, J. M. and Guasco, A. (2023) “Reimagining the ‘fields’ of fieldwork,” in Special issue: Re-imagining the futures of geographical thought and praxis, Dialogues in Human Geography, in Special Issue: “Re-imagining the futures of geographical thought and praxis,” 14(2). Open access: Journal Link.

• Guasco, A. (2022) “On an ethic of not going there,” The Geographical Journal, 188(3). Open access: Journal Link.

• Guasco, A. (2021) “‘As dead as a dodo’: Extinction narratives and multispecies justice in the museum,” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 4(3). Open access: Journal Link.

Public Writing

• “Whales Have Attacked Plenty of Boats Before. This Time Is Different,” Slate (May 2023)

• “Tracking Devil-Fishes and Friendly Whales,” White Horse Press (April 2023)

• “‘Weather Bad and Whales Un-cooperative’: The Misadventures of Mid-Century Whale Cardiology Expeditions,” Nursing Clio (October 2022)

• “Why should fieldwork-based research consider ‘an ethic of not going there’?” Geography Directions (July 2022)

• “Problems of Place: The Trouble With Fieldwork, or Troubling Embodiment,” Environmental History Now (March 2022)

• “Upwelling: Ecological Memory on the Coast,” The Scholar (May 2021)

Media

Podcast Interviews

• “Anna Guasco: Justice, histories, and narratives of gray whale migration (ep. 415),” Green Dreamer (January 2024)

• “The Future Is Fe-Whale (ep. 202),” Unladylike (August 2023)