Daniel Macfarlane

Dr. Daniel Macfarlane is Professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at Western Michigan University, where he teaches courses on water policy and political ecology. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Bill Graham Center for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto, and the current President of the International Water History Association. A former Fulbright Research Chair and Banting Fellow, Daniel received his PhD in History from the University of Ottawa in 2011.

Daniel is the author or co-editor of 6 books on Canada-US border waters: Negotiating a River: Canada, the US, and the Creation of the St. Lawrence Seaway (2014); Border Flows: A Century of the Canadian-American Relationship (2016); The First Century of the International Joint Commission (2020); Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World's Most Famous Waterfall (2020); Natural Allies: Environment, Energy, and the History of US-Canada Relations (2023); and The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History. He has published other works on the history of Great Lakes water levels, Canada-US environmental relations, and hydroelectricity.