Biography
McKenzie took his PhD in Maritime History from the University of New Hampshire in 2003. As a PhD candidate, he also worked with UNH’s Gulf of Maine Cod Project, an interdisciplinary team of historians and fisheries scientists exploring ecological change in the 19th century Scotian Shelf cod-fishery. He is also involved with the Census of Marine Life’s History of Marine Animals Population (HMAP) Project, in which he collaborated with the Northwest Atlantic team and the World Whaling project. In 2003, McKenzie began teaching Maritime Studies at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Mass., during which time he sailed from Key West to Bermuda, Seattle to the Queen Charlotte Islands and San Francisco, and from Woods Hole to Georges Bank and the Scotian Shelf. At sea, he continued his courses and filled-in as Assistant Engineer, deckhand, and science deck lackey. He came to UConn’s Avery Point campus in August, 2006, where his position as American Studies Program Coordinator has pulled his interests closer to shore.
McKenzie is currently writing a manuscript exploring perceived changes in nineteenth century southern New England’s inshore marine ecology; fishermen’s and scientists’ responses to those changes; and how these economic and ecological transformations helped create the modern tourist communities of the early twentieth century.
Selected Publications
McKenzie, Matthew G., “Baiting Our Memories: The Impact of Offshore Technology Change on the Species Around Cape Cod, 1860-1895.” In David Starkey, Poul Holm, and Michaela Barnard (eds.), OceansPast: Management Insights from the History of Marine Animal Populations (forthcoming, 2007), pp. 77-89.
Randall R. Reeves, Matthew G. McKenzie, and Tim D. Smith, “History of Bermuda shore whaling, mainly for humpback whales,” Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, vol. 8, no 1. (2006), pp. 33-43.
McKenzie, Matthew G., “Navigating Federalism: Federalists, the Boston Marine Society, and the Establishment of Federal Authority in Boston, 1789-1792.” Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord (forthcoming).
Claesson, Stefan C., and Matthew McKenzie, for Andy Rosenberg (PI), “Stellwagen Bank Marine Historical Ecology, Phase I: Historical Sources Survey Report.” Prepared for the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, NOAA Contract/Grant No. NA04NO54290190 (2005).
Rosenberg, Bolster, Alexander, Leavenworth and McKenzie, “The history of ocean resources: modeling cod biomass using historical records.” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, vol. 3, no. 2 (2005), pp. 78-84.
McKenzie, Matthew G., “Salem as Athenaeum: Academic Learning and Vocational Knowledge in the Early Republic,” in Morrison, Dane Anthony, and Nancy Lusignan Schultz, eds. Salem: Place, Myth and Memory (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2004).
McKenzie, Matthew G., “Vocational Science and the Politics of Independence: The Boston Marine Society, 1754-1812.” PhD Dissertation, University of New Hampshire (2003).
Conference Presentations
“Science and the Political Economy of an Industrialized Fishery: An Ecosystem-Based Study of the 19th Century Southern New England Inshore Fishery.” North Atlantic Fisheries History Association Conference, 19 September, 2007, Bergen, Norway.
“Speaking for the Fish: Local Authority, Fisheries Science, and the Crusade to Privatize the Southern New England Anadromous Fisheries, 1866-1878.” American Society of Environmental History, Minneapolis, MN, March 29-April 2, 2006.
“Baiting our Memories: Offshore Technology Change and Their Impacts on Inshore Species around Cape Cod, 1860-1895.” OceansPast, Kolding, Denmark, October 24-27, 2005.
Panel Organizer: “Knowing the Oceans.” Three Societies’ Meeting, Halifax, Nova Scotia, August, 6-8, 2004.
“Vocational Science and Fishermen as Historic Ecological Indicators.” Northeast Fisheries Science Center, February 3, 2004.
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