Nancy Janovicek

Dr. Nancy Janovicek

Pronouns: she/her

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Office: +1 (403) 220-6403

Background

Educational Background

Doctor of Philosophy History, Simon Fraser University, 2002

M.A. Canadian Studies (Women's Studies Stream), Carleton University, 1997

B.A. History, University of Ottawa, 1991

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Research

Areas of Research

Women's and Gender History; Canadian Social and Cultural History; Back-to-the-Land

Awards

  • Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee Award, Government of Alberta. 2022
  • Marian Dewar Prize in Canadian Women's History, National Capital Commitee on the Scholarship, Preservation, & Dissemination of Women's History. 2015

Publications

  • The Dangers of Complacency: Women’s History/Gender History in Canada in the 21st Century. Catherine Carstairs. Women’s History Review . 1 – 12. (2016)
  • Protecting Access to Abortion Services in Rural Canada: A Case Study of the West Kootenays, British Columbia. Magazine of Women’s History . 19-28. (2013)
  • The community school literally takes place in the community’: Alternative Education in the West Kootenays, 1961-1980. Historical Studies in Education/Revue de l’histoire d’éducation . 150-169. (2012)
  • No Place to Go: Local Histories of the Battered Women’s Shelter Movement in Canada. UBC Press. (2007)
  • Reading Canadian Women’s and Gender History. Carmen J. Neilson. University of Toronto Press. (2019)
  • Writing Feminist History: New Essays on Women, Gender, Work, and Nation. Catherine Carstairs. UBC Press. (2013)
  • Canada: Uneven Paths to Suffrage and Women’s Political Participation. Melanee Lynn Thomas; Nancy Elizabeth Ann Janovicek. Palgrave MacMillan. 169 – 184. (2018)
  • ‘Good ecology is good economics’: The Slocan Valley Community Forest Management Project. Colin Coates, ed. Counterculture and the Environment. Calgary: University of Calgary Press. 53 - 76. (2015)
  • Oral History and Ethical Practice after TCPS2. The Canadian Oral History Reader. Eds. Kristina R. Llewellyn, Alexander Freund, and Nolan Reilly. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press. (2015)
  • 'If you’d told me you wanted to talk about the sixties, I wouldn’t have called you back’: Reflections on Collective Memory and Oral History. If you’d told me you wanted to talk about the sixties, I wouldn’t have called you back’: Reflections on Collective Memory and Oral History. 185-199. (2013)
  • Rural Countercultures. Diane Carr, Back to the Land: Ceramics from Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, 1970-1985. Victoria: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. 9-19. (2012)

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