Veronica Strong-Boag, FRSC Professor Women's and Gender Studies and Educational Studies University of British Columbia
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Veronica Strong-Boag, FRSC Professor Women's and Gender Studies and Educational Studies University of British Columbia University or Institution Degree Subject Area Dates 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 UBC Women's & Gender Studies & Educational Professor 1991- Studies Simon Fraser, History and Women's Studies Professor 1988-91 Simon Fraser, History and Women”s Studies Associate Professor 1980-88 Concordia , History Assist. Professor 1976-80 Trent, History Assist. Professor 1974-6 AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS Jules and Gabrielle Leger Research Fellowship, SSHRCC, 2010-11 Senior Killam Fellowship 2003-05 British Columbia Representative, Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, 2005-8 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" 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 Page 2/21 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 for Excellence, Trinity College, University of Toronto, 1968 Ontario Scholarship, 1966 INVITED PRESENTATIONS “Still Waiting for Justice: Provincial Politics and Gender Inequality in BC 2001-2009: Update,” BC Federation of Labour, March 6, 2009. “A Work in Progress: Canadian Feminism in the Long 1960s,” Canadian Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., USA, November 22, 2008 Presentation on “Still Waiting for Justice: Provincial Politics and Gender Inequality in BC 2001-2008,” BC Federation of Labour, March 8, 2008. Presentation on the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada at the Annual Conference of the BC Museums Association October 2007, Richmond BC Presentation on the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada to the BC Family of Historic Sites and Monuments, Burnaby Village, Feb. 2007. Presentation on public history to public history course taught by Dr. Patrick Dunae, Malaspina University College, Nanaimo 30 March 2006 Presentation on the HSMBC at the pre-meetings of the Annual Conference of the BC Museums Association October 2006, Prince George, BC. Preparing for War and Building for Peace: Canadian women between the Great Wars” Aug. 13, 2006, Vancouver Museum. “Today”s Child: Canadians and Adoption in the Toronto Telegram in the 1960s,” Department of History, University of Northern B.C., November 2004. “Never the Squaw: E. Pauline Johnson Challenges White Canada,” History and Women”s Studies Seminar Series, University of Alberta, November 8, 2003. “Thinking About Heroines in History: Pauline Johnson and Nellie McClung,” Brock House Seniors, November 6, 2003 “E. Pauline Johnson and White Canada,” Women”s Studies Lecture Series, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Oct. 21, 2003 “Pauline Johnson and British Columbia,” International Women”s Day Lecture, Vancouver Museum, March 2003 “E. Pauline Johnson, New Woman,” w/ Carole Gerson, Women”s History Month Presentation, Department of Women”s Studies, Harbour Centre, Simon Fraser University, October 2002. “E. Pauline Johnson and Canada”, Flag Day Celebration, University College of the Cariboo, February 2002. “Natives and Highlanders: “Savages” and Empire”, Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Native Studies, Trent University, October 2001 E. Pauline Johnson: Native Advocate, New Woman and Nationalist,” Vancouver Historical Society, Oct. 25, 2000 2 Page 3/21 “The Citizenship Debates: Race and Gender in the Franchise Act of 1885,” York University Research Seminar in Women”s Studies, September 2000. “Historians and the News,” Invited Panel, Meetings of the Canadian Historical Association, Edmonton, Alberta, June 2000 “Pauline Johnson,” Broadcast One, CBC, August 14, 2000 “International Women”s Day,” BCTV, Vancouver, March 8, 2000 Futures and Pasts: New Directions for Research in the History of Women”s Health,” Invited Plenary Presentation, “Women, Science and Health in Post-War North America: Comparative Canadian- American Perspectives,” York University, Conference March 5-7, 1999. “Violence against Women,” Knowledge Network British Columbia, December 6, 1999 “Canadian Born: Pauline Johnson Imagines the New Nation,”Montreal Social History Group, Jan. 1999. “Sharing Our Histories,” Conference “Giving the Past a Future,” McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, Montreal, January 1999. “Pauline Johnson and the New Nation,” Canadian Studies Conference, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon France. February 1998. Interview, “Pauline Johnson”, The History Channel, 1998. “The Life of Pauline Johnson”, Zonta International, Vancouver Branch, March 1997 “A Red Girl”s Reasoning”: E. Pauline Johnson Constructs the New Nation”. Paper given at UNBC February 1995, U of New Brunswick April 1995; substantially revised versions given for Women”s Studies at Simon Fraser, October 1995, Native Studies/Women”s Studies Lecture Series, the University of Toronto, March 1996 and the International Interdisciplinary Congress of Women”s Studies, Adelaide, Australia, April 1996. “Reflecting Canada: Observations on Women”s Studies and Gender Studies at the end of the 20th Century”. Invited Colloquium, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, Mexico, February 21-24, 1996. “Protest and Privilege: Confronting the Challenge of Academic Freedom”. to the UBC Faculty Association, November 1995, abbreviated version, Vancouver Sun, February, 1996. “The Challenge of Fairness: Thinking About Canada”s Two Feminist Waves”. Colleque “Feminismes et cultures politiques nationales”. Septième entretiens du Centre Jacques Cartier, Rhône-Alpes 29 novembre - décembre 1994, Lyons, France. “Independent Women, Problematic Men: First and Second Wave Anti-feminism in Canada from Goldwin Smith to Betty Steele” and “Their Side of the Story: Women”s Voices from Ontario Suburbs, 1945-60”, Invited Lectures to the University of Calgary, September 1993. Interview, CBC, Canada AM, on Canada after the election, September 29, 1993. Interview on ILO report on Women”s Progress, “The World Tonight Show,” with Philip Till, CKNW/98, February 4, 1993. “Independent Women, Problematic Men: First and Second Wave Anti-feminism in Canada from Goldwin Smith to Betty Steele”, Invited Lecture, Mount Royal College, Calgary, September 1993. Presented by invitation to the Canadian Studies Colloquium, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, April 16, 1993 and again to the Women”s Studies Colloquium, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, April 19, 1993. “Facing Our Differences/Forging Alliances,” Teaching Women”s History: Challenges and Solutions. A conference organized by the Canadian Committee on Women”s History, Trent University, August 20-22, 1993. “The First Woman”s Movement in Canada”, Langara College, March 9, 1993. “Women in British Columbia,” Vancouver Museum, January 5, 1993. 3 Page 4/21 “Women in British Columbia,” White Rock and South Surrey Women”s Place, Annual Fund-raising event, October 1992 “Women in Canada,” Okanagan College, Kelowna, January 23, 1992. “The Centre for Research in Women”s Studies and Gender Relations”, University Women”s Club, October 10, 1991. “The Changing Role of Women,” YWCA, Vancouver, November 13, 1991. “Keeping Canada Together: Feminist Perspectives,” Continuing Education, UBC, November 1991. “Reflections on History and the Nature of Canada,” Department of History, University of Toronto, October 1991. “Work and Suffrage: Women in Turn-of-the-Century B.C.,” Burnaby Historical Museum, March 1991. “Home Dreams: Canadian Women and Suburbia, 1945-60”. McGill Centre for Research on Women, January 1991. “Some Thoughts on Women and Suburbia in Canada,” S.F.U. History Department Seminar, Oct. 1990. “Aging and History,” Fort St. John Women”s Centre, October 1990. “Growing Old: Women in English Canada,” Vancouver Historical Society, April 1990. “Getting on With Life: Women and the Family in Canada 1945-60,” University of B.C., Public Lecture Series for History and Women”s Studies, February 1990. “Humanizing Canadian History: Writing the History of Canadian Women,” Invited Lecture, North Island College, Courtenay, B.C., February 1989. “Women and Modern Suburbia,” James Jackson Memorial Lecture in History, University of Manitoba, March 1989. “Getting on With Life: Women and the Family