Cameron has authored several books, including Openings: A Meditation on History, Method and Sumas Lake (1997) and Freud in Cambridge (2017; co-authored with John Forrester).
Life
Cameron was born in 1966, the youngest daughter of Jody Cameron (born 1939), who worked as a theater producer at University of the Fraser Valley, and John Barry Cameron (1928–2010), who worked as a teacher at Chilliwack Secondary School. Her siblings are textile artist Heather Cameron;[2] actor, playwright, and craftsman David Cameron; and Rob Cameron, who is an electrical engineer.
Cameron's partner Matt Rogalsky is a sound artist and is also a professor at Queen's University.[3] The couple have a child, Arden Rogalsky (born in 1999), and have collaborated on research projects, particularly into the history of field recording, and have organized a number of sound installations.[4] The family has lived in Kingston, Ontario, since 2003.
Work
Cameron's MA thesis Openings to a Lake: Historical Approaches to Sumas Lake, British Columbia became her first published book.[5] It was published in 1997 with the title Openings: A Meditation on History, Method and Sumas Lake.[6] In the book, she explores the complex relationship between place and history using the case of Sumas Lake in British Columbia, which was drained in the 1920s.[5] From 1999 to 2002, Cameron worked as a Junior Research Fellow in Historical Geography at Churchill College, Cambridge. As Canada Research Chair in Historical Geographies of Nature (2003–2012), she investigated a range of field sciences as place-based practices and cultural encounters.[1]
Cameron has also written biographical works, such as Freud in Cambridge (2017). The book, which Cameron co-authored with John Forrester, was written before the latter's death[7] and was published by Cambridge University Press.[8]
Cameron also was the editor of the book Friend Beloved: Marie Stopes, Gordon Hewitt, and an Ecology of Letters (2021), a biographical portrait of the British botanist Marie Carmichael Stopes and the Canadian entomologist and biologist Charles Gordon Hewitt.[9] Exploring their friendship in letters, the book reveals early ecology's revolutionary promise but also its involvement in colonialism and eugenics. Cameron also co-edited Emotion, Place and Culture (2009) and Rethinking the Great White North: Race, Nature, and the Historical Geographies of Whiteness in Canada (2011).[10]
^ abJean Cameron, Laura (1997). Openings: A Meditation on History, Method, and Sumas Lake. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN978-0773516663.
^Cameron, Laura (1997). Openings: A Meditation on History, Method, and Sumas Lake. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN978-0-7735-1666-3. JSTORj.ctt814ms.
^Callard, Felicity; Marks, Sarah (April 2022). "Freud in Cambridge Review Symposium". History of the Human Sciences. 35 (2): 194–197. doi:10.1177/09526951221084503. S2CID247569821.