Education

2017–2020 – PhD in Human Geography at Queen Mary University London - “A Discontinuous Earth: Permafrost life in the Anthropocene” (Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) 1+3 award)

2016–2017 – MRes Human Geography from Queen Mary University London

2013–2015 – MSc Environment, Culture and Society from the University of Edinburgh

2005–2008 – BA (hons) in Medieval Studies from the University of Manchester

Academic Employment

2024-present - Principal investigator on the NFR-funded Good Fire project at the Greenhouse, University of Stavanger

2022-2024 – Postdoctoral research fellow on the AtHome project at the Greenhouse, University of Stavanger

2020-2022 – Postdoctoral Fellow at the Laboratory for Environmental and Technological History at the Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg

Publications

Books

Wrigley, C. (2023). Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood: Permafrost and Extinction in the Russian Arctic. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Articles

Kasprzycka, E; Wrigley, C; Searle, A; and Twine, R (2023). Rhetorics of Species Revivalism and Biotechnology – A Roundtable Dialogue, Animal Studies Journal, 12(2).

Wrigley, C. (2023). An explosive landscape: Arranging the Barnacle Goose on the Solway Firth. Journal of Historical Geography 82.

Wrigley, C. (2023). Going deep: Excavation, collaboration and imagination at the Kola Superdeep Borehole. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 41(3).

Wrigley, C. (2021). Ice and Ivory: The cryopolitics of mammoth de-extinction. Journal of Political Ecology 28(1).

Wrigley, C. (2021). Soviet Signoras: Personal and Collective Transformations in Eastern European Migration, Martina Cvajner. University of Chicago Press, Chicago (book review). Emotion, Space and Society (online first).

Wrigley, C. (2020). Nine lives down: Love, loss and letting go in Scottish Wildcat conservation. Environmental Humanities 12(1).

Wrigley, C. (2018). It’s a bird! It’s a plane! An aerial biopolitics for a multispecies sky. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 1(4).

Invited Talks

2024 - “Microbial Matters: Permafrost Worldmaking with Unwanted Others” - invited panellist at the ‘Thinking Through Permafrost’ workshop at Sciences Po, Paris.

2023 – “Earth Ice Bone Blood” – book talk on the Greenhouse book podcast.

2023 – “Earth Ice Bone Blood: Discontinuity, Extinction and Permafrost in the Russian Arctic” – speaker at the Oldenburg Lunchtime Colloquium at Pomona College, USA.

2022 – “Geese, Guns and Ghosts: Following the Barnacle Goose along the Solway Firth” – speaker at the Devil’s Porridge Museum speaker series.

2022 – “We All Live on Permafrost” (online) – permafrost expert panel at the University of Indiana Russian Studies department.

2022 - “A Holey Planet” - Geopolitics and Planetary Boundaries workshop in Sigtuna, Sweden.