Dr. Ted Binnema has been teaching at UNBC since 2000, where he has taught in the fields of Canadian and United States history, Indigenous history, and environmental history.

He has written several books that examine various aspects of Environmental history, Aboriginal history, and the history of science. Common and Contested Ground (2001) examines the human and environmental history of the northwestern plains of North America from AD 200 to 1806. With Gerhard Ens of the University of Alberta, he edited three volumes of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Edmonton House Journals consisting of primary documents and long introductions offering new interpretations of the history of the northern plains and Athabasca region between 1806 and 1840. “Enlightened Zeal”: The Hudson’s Bay Company and Scientific Networks, 1670 to 1870 (2013), is the first book to examine the relationship between science and a major chartered monopoly over its entire lifetime. Dr. Binnema is now working on a history of the Vancouver Island Treaties and a study of five maps drawn by Blackfoot people in 1801 and 1802. Dr. Binnema also co-edited two collections of original articles, New Histories for Old: Changing Perspectives on Canada's Native Pasts (2007) and From Rupert's Land to Canada (2001). He has also published scholarly articles, including in Environmental History, The Canadian Historical Review, Journal of the Early Republic, Western Historical Quarterly, and The Journal of Canadian Studies.

Dr. Ted Binnema has been teaching at UNBC since 2000, where he has taught in the fields of Canadian and United States history, Indigenous history, and environmental history.