Dr. Elizabeth Jameson
Positions
Professor Emerita of History
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Background
Educational Background
Ph.D. Doctorate in Philosophy, University of Michigan,
M. A. American Culture, University of Michigan,
B.A. History, Antioch College,
Biography
Dr. Elizabeth Jameson joined the University of Calgary faculty in 1999 as Imperial Oil-Lincoln McKay Chair in American Studies until her retirement in 2017. Since then, she has been an Emerita Professor of History.
During her long career, Dr. Jameson's scholarship and teaching focused on the histories of women, gender, and labour in the North American West, western borderlands and comparative histories of the U.S. and Canadian West. Her publications include One Step over the Line: Toward a History of Women in the North American Wests (2008), All That Glitters: Class Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek (1998), Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West (1997), and numerous others.
She served as President of the Western History Association (2014-2015), the Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association (2004-2205), on the Councils of the Western History Association, Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association, Labor and Working Class History Association, and the Canadian Historical Association.
She delivered annual public chair lectures during her years as the Imperial Oil-Lincoln McKay Chair. During her retirement, she edited these lectures for publication. Her book, Thresholds, Walls, and Bridges is forthcoming from the University of Calgary Press in Fall 2025. She occasionally does invited lectures and consults with historical projects and institutions.
She currently enjoys spending time with her son, daughter-in-law, and two grandsons.
Research
Areas of Research
Participation in university strategic initiatives
Awards
- GREAT Supervisor, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Calgary. 2016
- Lifetime Achievement Award, Coalition for Western Women’s History. 2013
- Armitage-Jameson Prize, Coalition for Western Women’s History. 2010
- Certificate of Recognition, Labor and Working-Class History Association. 2008
- Louis Knott Koontz Award, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association. 2006
- Honorary Life Member, Western History Association. 2005
- Rodman W. Paul Award, Mining History Association. 1999
- All That Glitters named an Outstanding Academic Book, Choice Magazine. 1998
Publications
- “American Borderlands: Reflections on Margins, Mainstreams, and Alternatives”. Elizabeth Jameson. Canadian Review of American Studies. (2022)
- “Our Place in This Place”. Elizabeth Jameson. The Journal of the Jewish Historical Society of Southern Alberta. (2022)
- “Commentary: Truth, Facts, and Alternative Histories: Views from the Little Houses”. Elizabeth Jameson. The Magazine of Western History. (2019)
- “Women on the Margins of Imperial Plots: Farming on Borrowed Land”. Elizabeth Jameson, Carolyn Podruchny and Jesse Thistle. Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. (2018)
- “Halfway Across That Line: Gender at the Threshold of History in the North American West”. Elizabeth Jameson. Western Historical Quarterly. (2016)
- “Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Turns 40!: Reflections from Former Editors”. Elizabeth Jameson. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. (2015)
- “Both Sides Now: ‘Parallel’ Lines Across Bi-National Pasts”. Elizabeth Jameson. American Review of Canadian Studies. (2012)
- “Both Sides Now: Teaching the West North of the 49th Parallel”. Elizabeth Jameson. WHA Newsletter: Teaching the West, A Special Edition. (2012)
- “Foreword”. Elizabeth Jameson. Norwegian American Women: Migration, Communities, and Identities. (2011)
- “Looking Back to the Road Ahead”. Elizabeth Jameson. Pacific Historical Review. (2010)
- Thresholds, Walls, and Bridges. Elizabeth Jameson. University of Calgary Press. (2025)
- One Step over the Line: Toward a History of Women in the North American Wests. Elizabeth Jameson and Sheila McManus eds.. University of Alberta Press & Athabasca University Press. (2008)
- All That Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek. Elizabeth Jameson. University of Illinois Press. (1998)
- Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West. Elizabeth Jameson and Susan Armitage eds.. University of Oklahoma Press. (1997)
- The Women's West. Elizabeth Jameson and Susan Armitage eds.. University of Oklahoma Press. (1987)
- Building Colorado: The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America in the Centennial State. Elizabeth Jameson. Colorado State Council of Carpenters. (1984)
More Information
Western History Association
Coalition for Western Women's History
Canadian Historical Association
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association
Labor and Working-Class History Association
Canadian Committee for Women’s History
Canadian Committee for Labour History
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