Dr Janna Klostermann
Positions
Assistant Professor
Contact information
Background
Educational Background
PhD Sociology, Carleton University, 2021
MA Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies, Carleton University, 2015
MA Pastoral Studies, Loyola University Chicago, 2011
BA Communication, Roberts Wesleyan College, 2007
Biography
Janna Klostermann is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, and a current research fellow in the Calgary Institute for the Humanities. Her research and teaching interests include work/labour studies, paid and unpaid care work, feminist theory and narrative/arts-based approaches.
Klostermann completed her PhD in Carleton’s Department of Sociology (2021), and a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship in Brock’s Department of Sociology (2022). Her dissertation was awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal and the University Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work at the Doctoral Level.
Her first book project, At the Limits of Care (under contract with University of Toronto Press) challenges dominant narratives around gendered care work through sociological memoir writing and life history research with women who reached their limits and stepped back from paid and unpaid care work roles in Ontario’s caring economy.
Klostermann is also currently conducting research in Alberta’s long-term care sector, as part of her SSHRC-funded ‘Learning at the Limits’ study. The project aims to rethink dominant gendered and racialized assumptions around care in light of public sector shortages.
Since joining U. Calgary in 2022, Klostermann has taught courses in the sociology of work, sociology of health and illness, and other special topics courses related to gender and care work.
Research
Areas of Research
- Sociology of health and illness
- Care work, care theory
- Work and organizational relations
- Nursing homes (long-term residential care)
- Qualitative research methods (e.g., narrative, ethnography, arts-based methods)
- Storytelling and the arts
Participation in university strategic initiatives
Courses
| Course number | Course title | Semester |
|---|---|---|
| SOCI 601 | Sociology of Work and Organizations | Winter 2025 |
| SOCI 321 | Sociology of Health and Illness | Fall 2024 |
| SOCI 403 | Topics in Gender Relations - Care Work and Gender | Winter 2024 |
| SOCI 393 | The Sociology of Work | Winter 2024 |
| SOCI 321 | Sociology of Health and Ilness | Fall 2023 |
| SOC 393 | The Sociology of Work | Winter 2023 |
| SOC 419.6 | Topics in the Sociology of Health and Illness | Winter 2023 |
| SOCI 321 | Sociology of Health and Illness | Fall 2022 |
Projects
Principal Investigator, ‘Care Work Shortages and Shifting Cultural Expectations in Alberta’s Long-term Residential Care Sector: What Can We Learn at the Limits?’
SSHRC Insight Development Grant ($69,194), University of Calgary (2023-Present)
Co-Investigator, ‘Imagine Age-Friendly ‘Communities within Communities’: International Promising Practices’
SSHRC Partnership Grant ($2,500,000), PI: Dr. Tamara Daly (2023-Present)
Co-Investigator, ‘Strengthening Care Mobilization in Canada’s Social Welfare State’
SSHRC Insight Grant ($187,853), PI: Dr. Laura Funk (2021-Present)
Co-Investigator, ‘Reimagining Care/Work Policies’ Project
SSHRC Partnership Grant ($2,499,444), PI: Dr. Andrea Doucet (2020-Present)
Collaborator, ‘Victim Services Providers and Vicarious Resilience’
SSHRC Insight Grant, PI: Dr. Ben Roebuck (2021-2023)
Postdoctoral Fellow Award, ‘Imagining Equitable, Sustainable Care Relations’
SSHRC ($90,000), Brock University (2021-2022; declined 2nd year)
Awards
- Governor General’s Gold Medal, 2021
- University Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work at the Doctoral Level, Carleton University. 2021
- Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. 2016
Publications
- Turned towards: The politics of responsibility in Canadian news media narratives of family care. Sawchuk, D., Klostermann, J., Funk, L., Cherba, M., Giguère, L., & Dunsmore, R.. Journal of Canadian Studies. (2024)
- Producing the public caregiver: The discursive politicization of family caregiving by Canadian caregiver organizations. Funk, L., Klostermann, J., Symonds-Brown, Aubrecht, K., & Giguère, L.. International Journal of Care and Caring. (2024)
- Bev said 'no": Learning from nursing home residents about care politics in our aging society. Klostermann, J. The Gerontologist. (2023)
- Making joy possible in care home policies and practices. Braedley, S., Armstrong, P., & Klostermann, J. Care homes in a turbulent era: Do they have a future?. (2023)
- Residents who care: Rethinking complex care and disability relations in Ontario nursing homes. Klostermann, J. Unpaid work in nursing homes: Flexible boundaries. (2023)
- Unpaid work in public places: Nursing homes in times of COVID-19. Armstrong, P., & Klostermann, J. Confronting the Global Care Crisis During COVID19: Past Problems, New Issues, and Pathways to Change. (2023)
- What and how are we measuring when we research gendered divisions of domestic labor? Remaking the Household Portrait into a Care/Work Portrait. Doucet, A., & Klostermann, J. Sociological Research Online. (2023)
- More than a visitor? Rethinking metaphors for family care in long-term care homes. Klostermann, J., & Funk, L. Ageing & Society. (2022)
- The problems with care: A feminist care scholar retrospective. Klostermann, J., Funk, L., Symonds-Brown, H., Cherba, M., Ceci, C., Armstrong, P., & Pols, J. Societies. (2022)
- What we can learn from Toronto AIDS activists about transforming public services. Klostermann, J., & Hurl, C. Interface. (2021)
- Working the project: Research proposals and everyday practices for emerging feminist researchers. Klostermann, J., McAleese, S., Montgomery, L., & Rodimon, S. Canadian Review of Sociology. (2020)
- Remembering George W. Smith’s ‘life work’: From politico-administrative regimes to living otherwise. Hurl, C., & Klostermann, J. Studies in Social Justice. (2020)
- Altering imaginaries and demanding treatment: Women’s AIDS activism in Toronto, 1980s-1990s.. Klostermann, J. Women’s Health Advocacy: Rhetorical Ingenuity for the 21st Century. (2019)
In the News
- Fighting privatization and austerity in Ontario healthcare. The Leveller.
- 'Getting unstuck’: Women who care for others should feel OK stepping back. The Conversation.
- Long-term care workers face ethical questions in an unjust system. NOW Magazine.
- L’Arche International has a history of exploiting women. Toronto Star.
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