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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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, Shannon. Review of M. J. Morgan. Land of Big Rivers: French and Indian Illinois, 1699-1778 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2010) Environmental History 16, 3 (2011): 551-552.

Stunden Bower, Shannon. Review of Kenichi Matsui. Native Peoples and Water Rights: Irrigation, Dams, and the Law in Western Canada. Native and Northern Series. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009). H- Water, H-Net Reviews, September 2010.

Stunden Bower, Shannon. Review of Joachim Radkau, Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009). Environment and Society: Advances in Research. Volume 1, 2010.

Stunden Bower, Shannon. Review of The Prairie Agrarian Movement Revisited: Centenary Symposium on the Foundation of the Territorial Grain Growers Association. Edited by Murray Knuttila and Bob Stirling. Regina, SK: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2007. Great Plains Quarterly vol. 30, no. 2 (Spring 2010): 150.

Stunden Bower, Shannon. Review of James Murton, Creating a Modern Countryside: Liberalism and Land Resettlement in British Columbia, H- Canada, H-Net Reviews, January 2008.

Stunden Bower, Shannon. Review of Leonard, David W. The Last Great West: The Agricultural Settlement of the Peace River Country to 1914 (Calgary: Detselig, 2006). Canadian Historical Review 2007 88(4): 653-655.

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Stunden Bower, Shannon. Review of Campbell, Claire Elizabeth. Shaped by the West Wind: Nature and History in Georgian Bay (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2005). Environmental History vol. 12, no. 4 (October 2007).

Stunden Bower, Shannon and Liza Piper. “Situating Québec in Global Environmental History,” Canadian Historical Association Bulletin 32, no. 3 (2006).

Stunden Bower, Shannon and Liza Piper. “Environmental History in Canada,” American Society for Environmental History News 16, no. 4 (2005).

Stunden Bower, Shannon. “Trajectories in Rural History: A Review of The Trajectories of Rural Life: New Perspectives on Rural Canada,” Manitoba History 48 (Fall 2004/Winter 2005): 49-51.

Stunden Bower, Shannon and Sharmalene Mendis. “And The Survey Says…” Canadian Women and Geography Newsletter (Spring 2004).

Stunden Bower, Shannon. “Intellectual Nourishment.” Canadian Women and Geography Newsletter (Winter 2004).

Stunden Bower, Shannon. “Women Taking Up Space; SWIG Taking On the Academy: Recent Activities of the UBC/SFU Supporting Women in Geography (SWIG) Group,” Canadian Women and Geography Newsletter (Winter/Spring 2003).

RESEARCH PROJECTS COORDINATED

Campanella, David and Bob Barnetson and Angella MacEwen. On the Job: Why Unions Matter in Alberta, May 2014.

Harrison, Trevor and Harvey Krahn. Less Exclusion, More Engagement: Addressing Declining Voter Turnout in Alberta, April 2014.

Loxley, John. Wrong Turn: Is a P3 the Best Way to Expand Edmonton’s LRT? Parkland Institute, October 2013.

Clements, Jill and Diana Gibson. Delivery Matters: Cyber Charter Schools and K-12 Education in Alberta. Parkland Institute, October 2013.

Barnetson, Bob. Making it Home: Alberta Workplace Injuries and the Union Safety Dividend. Parkland Institute, September 2013.

Hutton, David. Shooting the Messenger: The Need for Effective Whistleblower Protection in Alberta. Parkland Institute, May 2013.

Krahn, Harvey and Trevor Harrison. Governing Alberta: Citizens’ Views. Parkland Institute, May 2013.

Gibson, Diana. A Social Policy Framework for Alberta: Fairness and Justice for All. Parkland Institute, October 2012.

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ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

Knowing Nature Conference, Renmin Univeristy of China, Beijing May 2017 Tools for Rational Development

Idea of Place Conference, University of Alberta May 2017 Co-presenter, Contested Places on the North Saskatchewan

Political Science Association Graduate Students Conference 2017 University of Manitoba Transformation and Adaptation in the Context of Canada’s Environmental History

Under Western Skies, Mount Royal University 2016 Mid-20th Century Irrigation on the Canadian Prairies

Three Societies Conference, University of Alberta 2016 The Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration Goes to Ghana

Canadian Historical Association Annual Meetings 2016 Constructing Knowledge and Nation

Edmonton Heritage Council Public Presentation 2016 Between the City and the River: Mapping the Histories of Edmonton’s River Valley and Parks System

Science, Technology, and Society/Environmental Studies Lunchtime 2016 Speakers Series Between the City and the River: Mapping the Histories of Edmonton’s River Valley and Parks System

The West Before (and after) the West, University of Manitoba 2015 Indigenous Peoples and the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration

Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs 2015 University of Lethbridge Evidence-based decision-making in Canada: what’s happened, why it matters, and what we can do

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Kule Institute for Advanced Study, University of Alberta 2012 Panelist in a Kule Dialogues session From Settlement to Science: The Cultural Programme of the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration

Keynote address at the Manitoba Water Summit 2012 Wet Prairie: The History and Geography of Surface Water Management in Manitoba

Featured speaker at a public forum hosted by the Lake Winnipeg 2012 Foundation and Living Lakes Canada. Wet Manitoba: A History of Surface Water Management

Directions West Conference, University of Manitoba 2012 From Settlement to Science: The Cultural Program of Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration

Invited participant at the Cross-Pollinations workshop 2011 Uncharismatic Landscapes

Featured Speaker in the Natures Past Lecture Series, 2010 Provincial Archives of Alberta Through the Eyes of the State: Using Government Records to Explain Environmental Change in Manitoba, Canada

Invited participant at the Industrializing Rivers Conference 2009 Applying the Watershed Concept in Manitoba

Canadian Historical Association Annual Meetings 2008 Flood Prevention along Manitoba’s Assiniboine River

The Prairies in 3-D: Disorientations, Diversities, Dispersals 2007 The Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration and the Farmer-Land Relationship

American Society of Environmental Historians Annual Meetings 2007 Surface Water Problems and Their Human Consequences

Canadian Historical Association Annual Meetings 2006 Watersheds: Conceptualizing Manitoba’s Drained Landscape

Invited Commentator at a colloquium hosted by McGill University 2005 Situating Quebec in Global Environmental History: The Rural Milieu

Canadian Historical Association Annual Meetings 2005 Land Drainage in Manitoba, 1870-1930

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American Society of Environmental Historians Annual Meetings 2004 Hanging Manitoba Out to Dry: Adjustments to Patterns of Drainage and Flooding

Canadian Historical Association Annual Meetings 2004 Environment and Community: The Hay Privilege and the Province of Manitoba

Manitoba Historical Society Annual Conference 1999 Remembering Riel