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Veronica Strong-Boag, FRSC Professor Emerita Adjunct Professor, Departments of History and The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice and Educational Studies. University of British Columbia Adjunct Professor, Departments of History and Gender Studies, University of Victoria Director, womensuffrage.org, UBC General Editor, Seven Volume Series 'Women Suffrage and the Struggle for Democracy in Canada', UBC Press, 2014- University or Institution Degre Subject Area Dates e Toronto PH.D History 1971-5 Carleton M.A. History 1970-1 Toronto B.A. History 1966-70 (Hon) University, Company or Organization Rank or Title Dates Department of History, University of Adjunct Professor 2017- Victoria Department of Gender Studies, University Adjunct Professor 2017- of Victoria UBC Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality Professor Emerita 2013- and Social Justice & Educational Studies UBC Women's & Gender Studies & Professor 1991-2013 Educational Studies Simon Fraser, History and Women's Professor 1988-91 Studies Simon Fraser, History and Women”s Associate Professor 1980-88 Studies Concordia , History Assist. Professor 1976-80 Page 2/37 Trent, History Assist. Professor 1974-6 AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS Member, Order of Canada, June 2018 Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, University of Guelph, accepted for presentation Oct. 15, 2018. James R. Mallory Lecture, Institute for the Study of Canada, McGill Univesity, November 2017 Riley Fellowship in History, University of Winnipeg, October 2016. Ashley Fellowship in Canadian Studies, Trent University, March 2014 J.B. Tyrrell Historicall Medal for 'outstanding work in the history of Canada' from the Royal Society of Canada, 2012. Canada Prize in the Social Sciences (2012) from the Humanities and Social Science Federation of Canada for Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts its History of Chilhhood Disadvantage (2011) Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee Medal 2012 Jules and Gabrielle Leger Research Fellowship, SSHRCC, 2010-11 Senior Killam Fellowship 2003-05 BC Representative, Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, 2005-8 Queen Elizabeth Golden Jubilee Medal 2002 Raymond Klibansky Prize, 2001, w/ Carole Gerson from HSSFCfor the Best Book in English in the Humanities in Canada in 2000 Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, 2001 President of the Canadian Historical Association (1993-4) Canadian Who's Who 1992- Killam Prize for Research, UBC 1994 Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of Confederation 1993, Government of Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald Prize for the best book in Canadian History for 1988, awarded by the Canadian Historical Association Honourable Mentiion, Hilda Neatby Prize for the best article in women”s history 1987, awarded by the Canadian Historical Association, for both "Pulling in Double Harness or Hauling a Double Load: Women, Work and Feminism on the Canadian Prairie", Journal of Canadian Studies, 21: 3 (fall 1986), pp. 32-52 & "Keeping House in God’s Country: Canadian Women at Work in the Home" 2 Page 3/37 in Craig Heron & Robert Storey (ed.), On The Job: Confronting The Labour Process in Canada, McGill/Queen’s University Press, 1986, pp. 124-151 Co-winner, with Anita Clair Fellman, Laura Jamieson Prize, 1987 from Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women for best feminist book by a Canadian author, for Rethinking Canada, 1986 Joint Runner-up, Hilda Neatby Prize (CHA), 1986 Canada Council Graduate Fellowship 1972 and 1973 Central Mortgage and Housing Fellowship, 1972 (declinedj) Ontario Graduate Fellow, 1970 and 1971 Epstein Scholarship, Carleton, 1970 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1970 Canadian History Prize, University of Toronto, 1970 Archibald Lampman Scholarship, Trinity College, University of Toronto, 1968 Ontario Scholarship, 1966 REFEREED PUBLICATIONS a. BOOKS (i) Authored The Last Suffragist Standing: Laura Marshall Jamieson, 1882-1964 (Vancouver: UBC Press, October 2018) Liberal Hearts and Coronets: the Lives and Times of Ishbel Marjoribanks Gordon and John Campbell Gordon, the Aberdeens (Toronto: UTP, 2015), 374 pg. Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts the History of Childhood Disadvantage (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011), 302 pg. Finding Families, Finding Ourselves: English Canada Confronts Adoption from the 19th Century to the 1990s (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2006), 318 pg. VSB and Carole Gerson, Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) (Toronto: UTP, 2000), 331 pp. “Janey Canuck”: Women in Canada Between Two World Wars, 1919-1939 (CHA Historical Booklet, 1994). Also in French; rev. 1999. 42 pp. M. Conrad, A. Finkel, with VSB, A History of the Canadian Peoples, v. 2: 1867 to the Present (Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1993) The New Day Recalled: Lives of Girls and Women in English Canada 1919-1939 (Toronto: Copp, Clark, Pitman and Penguin Books, 1988). Chapter 1 repr. in 3 Page 4/37 Readings in Canadian History: Post-Confederation, eds., R.D. Francis and J.D.B. Smith (HRW 1990), 233 pp. The Parliament of Women: The National Council of Women of Canada, 1893- 1929 (Ottawa: National Museum, 1976), 487 pp. (ii) Edited M. Gleason, T. Myers, L. Paris, and V. Strong-Boag, eds., Lost Kids: Disadvantaged Children and Youth in Canada and the U.S (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009). 272 pg C. Warsh and VSB, eds. Children's Health: International Historical Perspectives (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006). VSB and Michelle Lynn Rosa. Nellie L. McClung. Clearing in the West and The Stream Runs Fast, ed., annotated and introduced (Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2003), 540 pp. C. Gerson and VSB, E. Pauline Johnson. Tekahionwake. Collected Poems and Selected Prose (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002), 343 pp. Cheryl K. Warsh and VSB, Special Issue on Children's Health, The Canadian Bulletin of Medical History (v. 19: 2002) published w/ significant additions as book above 2006. VSB, M. Gleason and A. Perry, eds. Rethinking Canada. The Promise of Women”s History, ed. and introd., revis. and enlarged, 4th edition (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2002), 419 pp. VSB, S. Grace, A. Eisenberg and J. Anderson, eds., Painting the Maple: Essays on Race, Gender and the Construction of Canada, edited and introduced (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1998), 290 pp VSB and A. C. Fellman, eds., Rethinking Canada, ed. and introd., revis, including introductions to each article, 3rd ed. (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997), 498 pp. VSB and Gillian Creese, British Columbia Reconsidered ed. and introd. (Vancouver, Press Gang, 1992), 451 pp. A.C. Fellman and VSB, eds. Rethinking Canada, ed. and introd., revis. 2nd ed. (Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1991), 455 pp. A.C. Fellman and VSB, eds., Rethinking Canada, ed. and introd. (Toronto: Copp Clark, Pitman, 1986), 282 pp. 4 Page 5/37 Beth Light and VSB, “True Daughters of the North”: Research and Reference Bibliography of Canadian Women”s History, ed. and introd. (To.: OISE, 1980), 210 pp. A Woman with a Purpose: The Diaries of Elizabeth Shortt, selected, edited and introduced (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980), 298 pp. Journals and Related Media “John Campbell Gordon” and “Ishbel Maria Marjoribanks Gordon,” Dictionary of Canadian Biography, accepted 2013; published 2019 on line. “Rejecting Evidence for Justice: the Anti-Women Politics of Canadian Conservatism,” Journal of Law and Equality 12 (Fall 2016): 39-62. «Limiting Identities: The Conservative Attack on History and Feminist Claims for Equality, ” Labour/Le Travail 73 (Spring 2014): 206-209. “From There to Here: the Making of a Feminist Historian,” Canadian Historical Review 95:2 (June 2014): 243-66. “Taking Stock of Suffragists: Personal Reflections on Feminist Appraisals,” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association NS, 21:2 (2011): 76-89. “Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves, or Not: Aunts and Caregiving in Canada,” Journal of Comparative Family History, v. 40, no. 5 (Autumn 2009). 791-807. VSB and Rupa Bagga, “Saving, Kidnapping, or Something of Both? Canada and the Vietnam/ Cambodia Babylift, Spring 1975, ” American Review of Canadian Studies 39:3 (Sept. 2009), pp. 271-89. “Experts on Our Own Lives: Commemorating Canada at the Beginning of the 21st Century, ” The Public Historian. v. 31, no. 1 (Feb. 2009): 46-68. Sally Mennill and VSB, “Identifying Victims: Child Abuse and Death in Canadian Families,” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/BCHM 25:2 (2008), pp. 11-33/ “Judging Men: Assessments of Fathers in Canadian Adoption Circles” in Emily Hipchen, ed. Adoption and Culture, v. 1, no. 1 (2007): 69-100. “Children of Adversity”: Disabilities and Child Welfare in Canada from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first,” Journal of Family History v. 32, no. 4, (2007) 413-32. “Today”s Child: Preparing for the “Just Society” One Family at a Time,” Canadian Historical Review 86, 4 (December 2005): 673-99. “Interrupted Relations: The Adoption of Children in Twentieth Century British Columiba, ” BC Studies 144 (Winter 2004-5): 3 – 28. Repr. in Diane Purvey and 5 Page 6/37 Christopher Walmsley, ed., Child and Family Welfare in British Columbia: A History (Calgary: Detselig, 2005). “Experts on their Own Lives: E. Pauline Johnson and Native Women Writers, ” in D. Hoerder and K. Gross, eds. Twenty-Five years: Gesellschaft fur Kanada- Studien/Achievements and Perspectives, Band 12 (2004) “Guest Introduction: The Spotlight on Children”. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/BCHM. v. 19: 2002 (2002): 5-16 “”A People Akin to Mine”: Indians and Highlanders within the British Empire, ” Native Studies