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Shannon Stunden Bower SHANNON STUNDEN BOWER [email protected] March 2017 Department of History & Classics Phone: (780) 492-0608 2-28 Tory Building Fax: (780) 492-9787 University of Alberta Citizenship: Canadian Edmonton AB T6G 2H4 Canada CURRENT POSITION Assistant Professor Starting July 2015 Department of History and Classics University of Alberta PREVIOUS POSITIONS Canadian Studies Program Aug. 2014-Jun. Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta 2015 Research Director Jul. 2012-Nov. Parkland Institute, University of Alberta 2014 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council 2008-2012 Postdoctoral Fellow Department of History and Classics University of Alberta Grant Notley Postdoctoral Fellow 2006-2008 Department of History and Classics University of Alberta EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy, Geography 2006 University of British Columbia Master of Arts, History 2000 University of Toronto Bachelor of Arts First Class Honours, English and History 1999 University of Manitoba 1 Shannon Stunden Bower REFEREED PUBLICATIONS Monograph Stunden Bower, Shannon. Wet Prairie: People, Land and Water in Agricultural Manitoba. UBC Press, Nature/History/Society Series. June 2011. Awarded the Clio Prize in the Prairie Provinces by the Canadian Historical Association, the Manitoba Day Award by the Association for Manitoba Archives, and the K. D. Srivastava Prize (co-winner) by UBC Press. Articles Stunden Bower, Shannon. "The Affordances of MacKinnon Ravine: Fighting Freeways and Pursuing Government Reform in Edmonton, Alberta," Urban History Review vol. XLIV, Nos. 12 (Fall/Spring 2015/16): 59-72. Stunden Bower, Shannon. With Sean Gouglas (University of Alberta) “Escarpments, Agriculture, and Environmental Knowledge in Manitoba and Ontario.” In Liza Piper and Lisa Szabo-Jones, eds. Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Western Environments, Past and Present (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015). Stunden Bower, Shannon. "To Harmonize Human Activity with the Laws of Nature: Applying the Watershed Concept in Manitoba." In Urban Rivers: Re-Making Rivers, Cities and Space in Europe and North America, edited by Stéphane Castonguay and Matthew D. Evenden (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012). Stunden Bower, Shannon. “Natural and Unnatural Complexities: Flood Control Along Manitoba’s Assiniboine River,” Journal of Historical Geography vol. 36, no. 1 (January 2010): 57-67. Stunden Bower, Shannon. “Watersheds: Conceptualizing Manitoba’s Drained Landscape,” Environmental History vol. 12, no. 4 (October 2007): 796-819. A teaching module was developed in 2015 to accompany this article. It is available here: http://environmentalhistory.net/wpcontent/ uploads/2015/08/2StundenBowerDrained.pdf Stunden Bower, Shannon. “The Great Transformation? Wetlands and Land Use in Manitoba,” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 15 (Winnipeg 2004): 29-47. Bower, Shannon. “ ‘Practical Results’: The Riel Statue Controversy at the Manitoba Legislative Building.” Manitoba History 42 (Fall 2001/Winter 2002): 30-38. Research Reports (published after double-blind peer review) Stunden Bower, Shannon and Greg Flanagan, The Way Forward: Progressive Income Tax in Alberta, March 2014. Stunden Bower, Shannon. Sick of Inequality: The Case for Action by the Government of Alberta on the Social Determinants of Health, February 2014. 2 Shannon Stunden Bower Stunden Bower, Shannon and David Campanella, From Bad to Worse: Residential Elder Care in Alberta. Parkland Institute, November 2013. Stunden Bower, Shannon. Smoke Screen: Results-based Budgeting, Privatization, and Public Sector Cuts in Alberta. Parkland Institute, September 2013. Campanella, David and Shannon Stunden Bower. Taking the Reins: The Case for Slowing Alberta’s Bitumen Production. Parkland Institute, April 2013. Stunden Bower, Shannon, Trevor Harrison, and Greg Flanagan. Stabilizing Alberta’s Revenues: A Common Sense Approach, Parkland Institute, February 2013. Boychuk, Regan and Shannon Stunden Bower. Delivery Matters: Public Infrastructure, Privatized Maintenance, and Government Transparency. Parkland Institute, February 2013. Other Research Reports Manitoba 2011 Flood Review Task Force Report. Prepared for the Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure, Manitoba, April 2013. (Task Force member) WEBSITE Research-driven website aimed at multiple audiences (academic, public, and student). Co-authored and co-produced with historians George Colpitts and Bill Waiser. Titled Climate and Change: Making Sense of the Dustbowl Years on the Canadian Prairies. Available here as of fall 2016: http://climateandchange.usask.ca/ AWARDS SSHRC Insight Grant. Co-applicant submitted fall 2016 ($398,940) Kule Institute for Advanced Study Connections Grant 2015 ($2,000) SSHRC Insight Development Grant. Co-applicant 2013 ($74,020) Kule Institute for Advanced Study Postdoctoral Research 2011 Award ($4,000) Canadian Association of Geographers’ Starkey-Robinson Prize, 2007 recognizing high quality graduate research that furthers understanding of the geography of Canada Dissertation selected as the UBC Department of Geography 2006 nomination for the CAGS/UMI Dissertation Award and the Governor-General’s Gold Medal. 3 Shannon Stunden Bower AWARDS, GRADUATE Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 2002-04 Doctoral Fellowship, Government of Canada Tim and Ann O’Riordan Fellowship for Research in the 2001-02 Field of Sustainability, UBC Green College Graduate Scholarship 2001-02 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (declined) 2001-02 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (declined) 2000-01 Ontario Graduate Scholarship 1999-00 University of Toronto Fellowship 1999-00 MAJOR AWARDS, UNDERGRADUATE University of Manitoba Faculty of Arts Gold Medal for 1999 Highest Standing in Arts, Honours Programme Thorlakson Prize for the Best Student Paper Presented at the 1999 Manitoba Historical Society Annual Conference Leonard Remis Award in Canadian History 1999 Lord Selkirk Association Memorial Scholarship for 1998 Highest Standing in Canadian History University of Manitoba Students’ Union Scholarship for 1998 Academic Achievement Dorothy I. Jones Memorial Award for High Standing in 1998 Third Year Honours English Alexander Robert Leonard Scholarship for High Standing in 1998 Third Year Arts Honours English Robert Sirluck Scholarship for Highest Aggregate on 1998 Two Third Year Honours History Courses Aikins Scholarship in the English Language and Literature for 1998 Highest Standing in English Honours Lord Selkirk Association Memorial Scholarship for 1997 Highest Standing in Canadian History 4 Shannon Stunden Bower University of Manitoba Students’ Union Scholarship for 1997 Academic Achievement Peter L. Coultry Memorial Book Prize for Highest Standing in 1997 Studies in the Novel Roscoe R. Miller Scholarship for Highest Standing in 1997 Second or Third Year Honours English Aikins Scholarship in the English Language and Literature for 1997 Highest Standing in English Honours SELECTED CURRENT PROJECTS Stunden Bower, Shannon. With William Van Arragon (King’s University College), Michael Ferber (King’s University College), Andrew Tappenden (King’s University College) and Mo Engel (University of Alberta). Between the City and the River: A Digital Historical Atlas of Edmonton’s North Saskatchewan River Valley and Its Parks System. Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Development Grant programme, 2013 granting cycle. Project will include traditional academic outputs (journal articles and monographs) in addition to the digital atlas. Stunden Bower, Shannon. Mid-20th Century Environmental Transformations in the Canadian West. Large-scale, multi-year research project that examines the dramatic yet little-studied changes on the agricultural prairies in the post- 1930s period, in part through a focus on the federal government’s Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration. Outputs will include journal articles and a monograph. TEACHING Instructor, Department of History and Classics, University of 2016-2017 Alberta. Courses taught: Post-Confederation Canada, Pre- Confederation Canada Instructor, Department of History and Classics, University of 2015-2016 Alberta. Courses taught: Canada Since 1945, Post- Confederation Canada, History of Edmonton Co-Instructor, Edmonton Life Long Learners Association. 2014 Course taught: Alberta the Petro State Instructor, Department of History and Classics, University of 2012 Alberta . Course taught: Post-Confederation Canadian History Instructor, Department of History and Classics, University of 2008 Alberta . Course taught: Water History: Local, National, Continental 5 Shannon Stunden Bower Instructor, Department of History and Classics, University of 2007 Alberta. Course taught: Themes in North American Environmental History OTHER PUBLICATIONS Stunden Bower, Shannon. Review of R. W. Sandwell, Canada's Rural Majority: Households, Environments, and Economies, 1870-1940 (University of Toronto Press, 2016) Forthcoming. Stunden Bower, Shannon. Review of Jennifer Bonnell and Marcel Fortin, eds. Historical GIS Research in Canada (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2014) Ecological Restoration, 33, 4 (December 2015), 427-428. Stunden Bower, Shannon. Review of Merle Massie, Forest Prairie Edge: Place History in Saskatchewan (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2014). Great Plains Research, 25, 2 (Fall 2015), 188. Stunden Bower, Shannon. Review of Andrew Weaver, Generation Us: The Challenge of Global Warming (Orca Book Publishers, 2011). The Goose, 12/13, 2013. Stunden Bower,