CURRICULUM VITAE OF NANCY JANOVICEK

Associate Professor Social Sciences 612 Department of History 2500 University Drive NW University of Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 Email: [email protected] Phone Number: 403-220-6403 Fax: 403 403-289-8566

EDUCATION

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY PhD, History (2002) Dissertation: “No Place to Go: Women’s Activism, Family Violence and the Mixed Social Economy, Northwestern Ontario and the Kootenays, BC, 1965-1989” Fields: Canadian Social and Cultural History, Gender and Modern European History, Human and Social Geography

CARLETON UNIVERSITY MA, Canadian Studies (Women’s Studies Stream) (1997) Thesis: “Finding a Place: The Politics of Feminist Organizing Against Spousal Assault in Ottawa and Lanark County, 1972-1982”

UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA BA, Honours History (1991)

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS: • My current research project examines the impact of the back-to-the-land movement on the West Kootenays, . • Carmen Neilson and I are editing A Companion to Women’s and Gender History in . • I have initiated The Annie Gale Project, a community-based project aims to commemorate the political work of Calgary’s first female Alderman through various public history projects, including a bronze.

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND AWARDS

2014 University Research Grants Committee Seed Grant, $14, 547.00 2012 SSHRC Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, $8,000.00 (with Dr. Catherine Carstairs, University of Guelph) SSHRC Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences Grant, $25,685.00 2011-2012 Calgary Institute for the Humanities Fellow, 2011 Faculty of Arts Scholarly Activities Grant, University of Calgary, $500.00 2010-2013 SSHRC Standard Research Grant, $51, 900 2008-2009 University of Calgary Research Support for New Faculty, $10, 000 2007-2008 University of Calgary Research Support for New Faculty, $ 10, 000 2006 SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Publishing Program, $15, 000 2002-2004 CRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, UNB $30, 000 per year

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PUBLICATIONS

Monograph: No Place to Go: Local Histories of the Battered Women’s Shelter Movement in Canada. : UBC Press, 2007.

Edited Books: Catherine Carstairs and Nancy Janovicek, eds. Writing Feminist History: New Essays on Women, Gender, Work, and Nation. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013.

Nancy Janovicek and Joy Parr, eds. Histories of Canadian Children and Youth. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Articles in Refereed Journals: “Protecting Access to Abortion Services in Rural Canada: A Case Study of the West Kootenays, British Columbia.” Magazine of Women’s History 73. Special Issue on Abortion. (Autumn 2013): 19-28.

Christabelle Sethna, Beth Palmer, Katrina Ackerman and Nancy Janovicek, “Choice, Interrupted: Travel and inequality of access to abortion services.” Labour/Le Travail 71 (Spring 2013): 29-48.

“‘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 24, 1. Special Issue on the History of Rural (Spring/Printemps 2012): 150-169.

“‘If it saves one life, all the effort . . . is worthwhile’: Women’s Organizing Against Wife Abuse, Moncton, 1979- 1987.” Acadiensis 35, 2 (Spring 2006): 27-45.

“Oral History and Ethical Practice: Towards Effective Policies and Procedures.” Journal of Academic Ethics 4 (2006): 157-174.

Elizabeth Blaney and Nancy Janovicek, “The PRISM Evaluation Resource: Feminist Critical Reflection on Anti- Violence Programs in Rural Areas,” Atlantis 30, 3 (2006). Available online at www.msvu.ca/Atlantis.

“‘Assisting Our Own’: Urban Migration, Self-Governance, and Native Women’s Organizing in Thunder Bay, Ontario, 1972-1989.” American Indian Quarterly 27, 3 & 4 (Summer/Fall 2003): 548-565. Reprinted in: Susan Applegate Krouse and Heather A. Howard, eds. Keeping the Campfires Going: Native Women’s Activism in Urban Communities. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2009: 56-79.

Mary Lynn Stewart with Nancy Janovicek. “Slimming the Body: Reevaluating Dress, Corsets, and Physical Culture in France, 1890s-1930s.” Fashion Theory 5, 2 (2001): 173-194. Reprinted in Russian Fashion Theory 1, 1 (2006).

Book Chapters: “‘Good ecology is good economics’: The Slocan Valley Community Forest Management Project,” in Colin Coates, ed. Counterculture and the Environment. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2015: 53 - 76.

“Oral History and Ethical Practice after TCPS2.” In The Canadian Oral History Reader. Eds. Kristina R. Llewellyn,

2 Alexander Freund, and Nolan Reilly. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press. Forthcoming 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.” In Off the Record: Unspoken Negotiations in the Practice of Oral History. Eds. Anna Sheftel and Stacey Zembrzycki. New York: MacMillan and Palgrave, 2013: 185-199. This book won the Oral History Associations Best Book Prize.

“‘Feminist Initiatives, Government Limitations: Feminist Services, Politics, and Voluntarism, 1970-1985.” In Women and Leadership. Eds. Audrey MacNevin, Ellen O’Reilly, Eliane Leslau Silverman, and Ann Taylor. Ottawa: Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2002: 57-75.

Non-Peer-Reviewed Contributions: Nancy Janovicek, Christabelle Sethna, Beth Palmer, and Katrina Ackerman, “Travel and Access to Abortion,” Active History, 6 August 2014. Available at: http://activehistory.ca/2014/08/new-paper-travel-and-access-to- abortion/ (Peer-reviewed)

“Rural Countercultures,” in Diane Carr, Back to the Land: Ceramics from Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, 1970-1985. Victoria: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 2012: 9-19.

Peer-Reviewed Policy Research Reports: Yasmin Jiwani (Principal Author), Nancy Janovicek, and Angela Cameron. “Erased Realities: The Violence of Racism in the Lives of Immigrant and Refugee Girls of Colour.” In Helene Berman and Yasmin Jiwani, eds., The Alliance of Five Research Centres on Violence. In the Best Interests of the Girl Child: Phase II Report. Ottawa: Status of Women Canada, January 2002: 45-88.

Reducing Crime and Victimization: A Service Providers’ Report. Vancouver: FREDA Centre for Research on Violence against Women and Children, April 2001.

On the Margins of a Fraying Social Safety Net: Aboriginal, Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Access to Welfare. Vancouver: FREDA Centre for Research on Violence against Women and Children, September 2000.

Encyclopaedia Entries: “History of Child Labor in Canada,” in The World of Child Labor: An Historical and Regional Survey, ed. Hugh D. Hindman (Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, Inc.), 2009: 443-448.

Book Reviews and Review Articles: Maureen Moynagh and Nancy Forestell (eds.) Documenting First Wave Feminisms: Volume I Transnational Collaborations and Crosscurrents. Toronto: Press, 2012 and Nancy Forestell and Maureen Moynagh (eds.) Documenting First Wave Feminisms: Volume II Canada-National and Transnational Contexts. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. Labour/Le Travail 76 (Fall 2015): 223 - 226.

Lou Allison, ed., Gumboot Girls: Adventure, Love & Survival on British Columbia’s North Coast and Kate Braid, Journeywoman: Swinging a Hammer in a Man’s World. BC Studies. 181 (Spring 2014): 148 – 50.

Lara Campbell, Dominique Clément, and Gregory S. Kealey, eds. Debating Dissent: Canada and the Sixties. BC Studies 181 (Spring 2014) 146 – 7.

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Mona Gleason, Tamara Myers, Leslie Paris, and Veronica Strong-Boag, eds. Lost Kids: Vulnerable Children and Youth in Twentieth-Century Canada and the United States and Loren Lerner, ed. Depicting Canada’s Children. Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’éducation 23, 2 (Fall/automne 2011): 135- 138.

Antoon de Baets. Responsible History. Left History 14, 2 (Summer 2010): 143-4.

Constance Backhouse, Carnal Crimes: A History of Sexual Assault in Canada, 1900-1975. Labour/Le Travail 64 (Fall 2009): 219-221.

Geraldine Terry, Women’s Rights. Labour/Le Travail 63 (Spring 2009): 336-338.

Rebekkah Adams. Glass Houses: Saving Feminist Anti-Violence Agencies from Self Destruction. Labour/Le Travail 62 (Fall 2008): 244-246.

Cynthia Comacchio. The Dominion of Youth: Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920-1950. The American Historical Review 113, 2 (June 2008): 813-814.

“Women, Social Policy, and Poverty” Acadiensis, 36, 1 (Autumn 2006): 112-122.

Andrea Smith. Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide. Journal of Genocide Research 8:2 (June 2006): 225-226.

Rae Bridgman, Safe Haven: The Story of a Shelter for Homeless Women. Labour/Le Travail 54 (Fall 2004): 282-284.

Valeria Gennaro Lerda and Roberto Maccarini, eds., Canadian and American Women: Moving from Private to Public in the Atlantic World. Journal of American History 91, 1 (June 2004): 266-267.

Barbara Hobson, Jane Lewis, and Birte Siim, eds., Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics. Labour/Le Travail 53 (Spring 2004): 351-354.

Sarah Carter, Capturing Women: The Manipulation of Cultural Imagery in Canada’s Prairie West. Labour/Le Travail 44 (Fall 1999): 246-248.

“Feminism, Debate, and Social Change: Recent Anthologies on Feminist Theory and Praxis.” Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes 33, 1 (Printemps 1998 Spring): 163-172.

Newsletter Articles: “Ethics and Oral History.” Communiqué 14:1 (Spring 2006): 16-17.

“Historians and the Tri-Council Policy Statement on Research Involving Humans.” CHA Bulletin 29:2, 2003: 1-2.

PRESENTATIONS

Papers delivered at refereed conferences: Catherine Carstairs and Nancy Janovicek, “Round Table: Women’s History at the Cutting Edge (part 2), IFRWH Conference, Jinan, Chinia, 27 - 28 August 2015.

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Roundtable Participant. Contentious Stories and the Burdens of Listening: Reflecting on Oral History Practice, a Roundtable Discussion. Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, St. Catherines, May 26-38, 2014.

“Living the Simple Life: Smallholding in the West Kootenays Back-to-the-land Movement, 1960-1980.” Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting, Banff, , June 13-15, 2013.

“‘Why aren’t you women here to keep me company?’ Women and Nontraditional Employment in the West Kootenays, 1970-1990.” Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Kitchener-Waterloo, May 28- 30, 2012.

“Putting Anti-Abortion Activism into a Transnational Context.” 9th European Social Science History Conference, Glasgow, UK, 11-14 April 2012.

“‘Good ecology is good economics’: The Back-to-the-land Movement and Sustainable Logging in the Slocan Valley, 1973-1979.” Canadian Countercultures and the Environment, a Workshop on Hornby Island, BC, 5-6 June, 2011.

“‘Get out your woollies and come help elect a good, pro-choice hospital board’: Defending Access to Abortion in the West Kootenays, British Columbia, 1980-1991.” 2011 Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, Fredericton, NB, May 29 – June 1, 2011.

“I gave up the struggle for theoretical freedom and began to live freely”: Back-to-the-landers, Coalition-building, and the Slocan Valley Resource Society, 1973-1979,” Place and Replace: A joint meeting of Western Canadian Studies and the St John’s College Prairies Conference, St John’s College, University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 16-18 September 2010.

“Slocan Man meets Beer Can Man”: The Back-to-the-Land Movement in the West Kootenays Alternative Press, 1973-1991.” 89th Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, Montreal, PQ May 28 – 30, 2010.

Comment on Feminism, the Law, and the State: Case Studies of Women’s Activism and Resistance Session. 14th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2008.

Organizer and Participant in a Roundtable on Ethics Policy and Historical Practice. 85th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, Toronto, Ontario, 2006.

“Writing History, not ‘Herstory’: Ethics and Researching the History of the Contemporary Women’s Movement.” 66th Annual Meeting of The Society for Applied Anthropology Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2006.

“‘If it saves one life, all the effort . . . is worthwhile’: Carrefour pour femmes/Crossroads for Women, Moncton, 1979-1980.” 14th Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, Fredericton, New Brunswick, 2005.

5 “‘No Place to Go’: Women’s Activism against Wife-Battering in Northwestern Ontario, 1970-1985.” 82nd Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2003.

“Oral History and Ethical Practice: Towards Effective Policies and Procedures.” Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics, Consultation on the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Research Involving Humans (TCPS): The Evolution of the TCPS and Opportunities for Refinement, 2003 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2003.

“‘Assisting Our Own’: Urban Migration, Self-Governance, and Native Women’s Organizing: Founding Beendigen, Thunder Bay, 1978-1979.” 81st Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, Toronto, Ontario, 2002.

“Feminist Initiatives, Government Limitations: Feminist Services and the Mixed Social Economy in Canada, 1965- 1985.” 29th Annual ARNOVA Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2000.

“Shattering the Silence: Representing Feminine Agency and Masculine Violence in Feminist Comics in Kinesis, 1973- 1980.” 77th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, Ottawa, Ontario, 1998.

Invited Workshop Presentations (SSHRC-Funded): “‘To build and alternative food economy:’ Food Security and Environmentalism in the Back-to-the-land Movement.” Environmentalism from Below: Appraising the Efficacy of Small-scale and Subaltern Environmentalist Organizations. University of Alberta, August 6 – 9.

“‘If you told me you wanted to talk about the ’60s, I wouldn’t have called you back:’ Reflections on Collective Memory and the Practice of Oral History.” Off the Record: Unspoken Negotiations in the Practice of Oral History, Montreal, , April 28 – 30, 2011.

Invited lectures: Roundtable Participant, “Oral History Ethics, Consent, Responsibilities and Obligations: Scholars Reflect on these Concerns in their Research.” The Centre for Oral History and Tradition, University of Lethbridge, 24 October 2014.

“Farming, Foraging, and the Fed-Up Co-op: Food Security in Back-to-the-Land Countercultures,” Calgary Institute for the Humanities, 26 March 2013.

“Farming and Foraging: Food Security in Back-to-the-Land Countercultures,” Mount Royal University Humanities Colloquium, 30 November 2012.

“The Social Movement Behind the Art.” Presented at the exhibition opening of Back to the Land: Ceramics from Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, 1970-1985.” Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 6 October 2012.

“‘To talk and learn from each other:’ Aboriginal and Feminist Campaigns to Open Shelters for Battered Women in Northwestern Ontario, 1970-1985.” Women Scholars Speakers’ Series, University of Lethbridge, 6 March 2009.

6 “‘I wasn’t interested in the political part back then’: Connecting the Personal and the Political in the Battered Women’s Shelter Movement, 1970-1989” Mount Royal College Turn off the Violence Week, 6 November 2008.

Workshops and panels: Panel Participant, “Women’s History from an Interdisciplinary Perspective: Problems of Voice and Representation.” 2004 Viscount Bennett Lecture and Seminar, Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton.

“PCPC – Where It’s Been and Where It Could Go.” Gender, Diversity, and Inclusion – Bridging the Paths to Violence Free Communities, Fredericton, 2003.

Co-Organizer, “Violence Against Girls and Women in Rural/Remote and Socially Isolated Communities in the Atlantic Provinces Conference.” Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research, Fredericton, 2003.

Co-Facilitator, “Doing Good Research: PRISM Training Workshop.” Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research, Fredericton, 2003.

Workshop Facilitator, University Women’s Studies Summer Institute 2000: “Where do Women Stand? An Exploration of Standpoint Theory through the Work of Dorothy Smith.” Simon Fraser University, Campus, Vancouver, 2000.

FREDA Centre Research Report on the Girl-Child Project. Meeting of the Alliance of Five Research Centres on Violence, Winnipeg, 2000.

TEACHING AND SUPERVISION

GRADUATE SUPERVISION (COMPLETED)

• Pernille Jakobsen, “Bench-Breakers? Women Judges in Prairie Canada 1916 – 1980.” (PhD 2014)

• Jason Devine, “‘In an equitable and sympathetic manner’: Alberta’s Workmen’s Compensation and the United Mine Workers of America, District 18’s Welfare Fund” (MA, 2011)

• Robyn Gifford, “‘Lift Up Your Eyes to the Grassroots’: Women and Youth in the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada 1948-1956” (MA, 2008)

UNDERGRADUATE SUPERVISION (COMPLETED)

• Deanna Turner, PURE Award winner. “The Annie Gale Project” (2014)

• Kira Blumer, “The Calgary Indian Friendship Centre, 1959 – 1979: Public-Private Policy and the Founding of an Urban Aboriginal Institution” (BA, Honours, 2012)

• Jason Devine, “‘You understand we are radical’: The United Mine Workers of America, District 18 and The One Big Union, 1919-1920” (BA, Honours, 2008)

7 COURSES TAUGHT

Graduate courses: • Graduate Seminar in Historiographies and Philosophies of History (HTST 690) • Graduate Seminar in Canadian Social and Cultural History (HTST 623.3) • Post-Confederation Canada: Canadian PhD Field Reading Course (HTST 791.27, University of Calgary, co- taught with David Bercuson, Sarah Carter, and R. Douglas Francis) • Gender History in Canada (HTST 623, University of Calgary)

Undergraduate seminars: • Social Movements and Social Change in Canada (HTST 519.13, University of Calgary) • Gender, Race, Class, and Women in Canada (HTST 533, University of Calgary) • Themes in the History of Violence against Women (HTST 593.11, University of Calgary) • Gender History section of Historical Methods and Philosophies of History (The Honours Historiography Seminar) (HTST 498, University of Calgary) • Western Canadian Women (HTST 593, University of Calgary) • History of British Columbia (HIST 436 Simon Fraser University) • History of Women in North America (HIST 434, Simon Fraser University)

Upper level undergraduate courses: • The Practice of History (HTST 300, University of Calgary) • Quebec History (HTST 445, University of Calgary) • History of Social Policy in Canada (HTST 450, University of Calgary) • History of British Columbia (HTST 493, University of Calgary) • Themes in the History of Violence against Women (HIST 4324, University of New Brunswick) • History of the Canadian Social Welfare State (HIST 3354, University of New Brunswick) • Women in British Columbia (WS 307, Simon Fraser University)

Introductory undergraduate courses: • Canada since 1867 (HTST 213, University of Calgary) • History of Women in Canadian Society (HTST 343, University of Calgary) • Canadian Social Development (HTST 353, University of Calgary)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE: • Calgary Institute for the Humanities, Executive Council (2014 – 2016) • Canadian Historical Association Nominations Committee (2015 – 2018) • Marta Danylewycz Doctoral Award Committee (2015) • Canadian Historical Association, Clio Committee for Best Book in Western Canadian History (2014 – 2017) • President, Academic Women’s Association, University of Calgary (2014-16) • Editorial Board, Athabasca University Press (2013-2016) • Canadian Committee on Women’s History Book Prize Committee (2014) • Calgary Distinguished Writer Program, Steering Committee, Faculty of Arts Representative (2013-15) • Undergraduate Chair, Department of History (2012-2015) • Curriculum and Academic Review Committee, University of Calgary (2012-2015) • General Faculty Council, University of Calgary (2012-2015) • Vice President, Academic Women’s Association, University of Calgary (2012-2014) • Steering Committee Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Toronto (2012)

8 • Chair, Canadian Committee on Women’s History (2012-2013) • Associate Chair, Canadian Committee on Women’s History (2013-2014) • Hilda Neatby Prize Committee, Canadian Committee on Women’s History (2009-2012) • Steering Committee CCWH Conference 2010, “Edging Forward, Acting Up: Gender and Women’s History at the Cutting Edge of Scholarship and Social Action” (2009-2010) • Editorial Board, Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 website (http://alexanderstreet6.com.wasm) (2006 to present) • Canadian Historical Association Ethics Committee (2005-2007) • Sub-committee on the Future Direction of the Canadian Committee on Women’s History (2004-2006) • CHA Submission to the Inter-agency Panel on Research Ethics Consultation on the Tri-Council Policy Statement on Research Involving Humans. Written with Sarah Carter and Peter L. Towhig (2003)

CONFERENCE ORGANIZING • Canadian Historical Association, 95th Annual Meeting, Program Committee Chair and Local Organizer (2015-2016) • “Spaces of Gender and Sexual Security: An Interdisciplinary Symposium”, Interdisciplinary Day, Congress 2016 • Steering Committee “Directions West, Third Biennial Conference on Western Canadian Studies,” University of Calgary 21-23 June 2012 o Chair Program Committee o Chair SSHRC Committee

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: • Canadian Historical Association • Canadian Committee on Women’s History

COMMUNITY SERVICE • Calgary Women’s Centre, Board Member 2014-2019

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