EDUCATION
2011 Ph.D: History
University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
2006 B.A. (Hon): History
McGill University, Montréal, Québec
EMPLOYMENT
2013 – 2016 Limited-Term Instructor
History, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
2012 – 2013 Limited-Term Instructor
History, University of the Fraser Valley
2010 – 2012 Sessional Instructor/Lecturer
History, University of Victoria
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
“Looking Jewish: The Embodiment of Gender, Class, and Ethnicity Among Ashkenazi Jewish Women in Montreal, 1945-1980.” Histoire Sociale/Social History 47, no. 95 (November 2014): 729-746.
Book Chapters
“Gefilte Fish and Roast Duck with Orange Slices: A Treasure for my Daughter and The Creation of a Jewish Cultural Orthodoxy in Postwar Montreal.” Edible Histories, Cultural Politics: Towards a Canadian Food History, edited by Franca Iacovetta, Valerie Korinek, and Marlene Epp, 189-208. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.
Review Essays
“Trauma and Orality: New Publications in Mass Violence and Oral History.” Histoire Sociale/Social History 49, no. 98 (May 2016): 187-196.
Book Reviews
Review of Entre héritage et devenir: La construction de la famille juive. Études offertes à Joseph Mélèze-Modrzejewski, edited by Patricia Hidiroglou. Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal 4 no. 2 (Fall 2007).
Manuscripts in Preparation
Becoming Ourselves: Jewish Women and the Creation of Jewish Identity in Montreal, 1945-1980. (Forthcoming from UBC Press)
“’Lovely gal from the north:’ The Performance of Canadian National Identity and the Dethroning of Miss Canada 1962.” To be submitted to The Journal of Canadian Studies
Article on Jewish Family Services adoption policies related to race
Article on the Visiting Homemaker’s Service provided by the Family Welfare Department.
Book project on English language welfare services in Montreal after 1945.
Book project on the experiences of Jewish women in British Columbia.
AWARDS AND HONOURS
2016 Nominee
Faculty of Arts Dean’s Teaching Award
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
2013 Honourable Mention
Hilda Neatby Prize, Canadian Historical Association
2007 WHA’99 Scholarship for World History
University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
2007 Margaret De Santis Scholarship
University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
2005 Jean Rich Foundation – Guy Champagne Canadian History Scholarship
McGill University, Montréal, Québec
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2012 Postdoctoral Fellowship – recommended, but not funded.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
2010 – 2011 Fellowship for Doctoral Studies
History Department, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
2008 – 2010 Bourse de doctorat
Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture
2008 – 2010 Doctoral Fellowship
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
2008 – 2009 Ian H. Stewart Graduate Student Fellowship
Centre for Studies in Religion and Society
University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
2008 – 2009 Winnifred E. Lonsdale Scholarship
Centre for Studies in Religion and Society
University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
2008 – 2009 Fellowship for Doctoral Studies
History Department, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
2007 – 2008 University of Victoria Fellowship for Doctoral Studies
University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
2006 University of Victoria Fellowship for Masters Studies
University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
2006 Fellowship for Masters Studies
History Department, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2015 “Wanted: White Jewish Babies: Intersections of Ethnicity, Race, Ability, and the Body in Jewish Adoption Regulation in Montreal, 1945-1969,” Society For the History of Children and Youth Eighth Biennial Conference, June 24-26.
2015 “Substitute Mothers: The Visiting Homemaker’s Service and Cold War Constructions of Masculinity, Femininity, and Families in the Jewish Community of Montreal,” Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, June 1 – 3.
2015 Roundtable on “All Together on this Land? A Dialogue on Multiculturalism and Decolonization in Academic Praxis,” BC Studies Conference, May 7-9
2013 “Beauty Queens, Shikse Goddesses, and Jewdar: Embodiment of Jewish Ethnic Identity in Canada, 1960 – 1990,” Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, June 3-5.
2013 Roundtable on “The Personal in Canadian Jewish Studies,” Association for Canadian Jewish Studies Annual Meeting, June 3-4.
2012 “Reluctant Feminists: Second-Wave Feminism and Jewish Identity Among Ashkenazi Women in Montreal, 1945-1980,” 38th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, November 1-4.
2010 “Daughters of the Commandments: Competing Discourses on Jewish Religiosity and Women in Montreal, 1945-1975,” Canadian Committee on Women’s History Conference, August 12-15.
2010 ““Chinese Food on Christmas”: Telling Stories about Jewish Foods in Montreal,” Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, May 28 – June 1.
2009 “Another Few Pounds to Lose: Bodies, Beauty and the Search for Canadian Jewish Identity, 1950-1970,” Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, May 25-28.
2008 “Gefilte Fish and Roast Duck with Orange Slices: A Treasure for my Daughter and The Creation of a Jewish Cultural Orthodoxy in Postwar Montreal,” Edible Histories, Cultural Politics: Towards a Canadian Food History Workshop, August 6-7.
2007 “Gefilte Fish and Roast Duck with Orange Slices: A Treasure for my Daughter and The Creation of a Jewish Cultural Orthodoxy in Postwar Montreal,” Canadian Ethnic Studies Association Conference, September 27-29.
2007 “Community, Family, and Womanhood: Jewish Philanthropy and Women in Montreal, 1919-1937,” 32nd Annual Qualicum-Parksville History Conference, February 9-11.
CAMPUS TALKS
2015 “Hark! A Vagrant! Homelessness and Survival Strategies in 19th Century Montreal.” Guest Lecture for Arts 1100 (Experiencing the Arts), Kwantlen Polytechnic University, October 22.
2014 “’Lovely gal from the north:’ The Performance of Canadian National Identity and the Dethroning of Miss Canada 1962,” Speaker’s Series, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, February 26.
2009 ““My Mother was an Awful Cook!”: Jewishness, Food and the Modern Woman in the Jewish Community of Montreal, 1945-1975,” Public Lecture Series, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria, January 14.
SERVICE TO PROFESSION
2015 – 2016 Chair, Canadian Committee on Women’s History Book Prize, Canadian
Committee on Women’s History.
2015 Peer Reviewer, Journal of Canadian Jewish Studies, 2015.
2011 – 2013 Regional Representative for BC, Yukon, North-West Territories, Executive Committee of the Canadian Committee on Women’s History.
DEPARTMENTAL/UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Departmental Research Ethics Committee, Department of History, University of the Fraser Valley, 2012 – 2013.
Regional Representative for BC, Yukon, North-West Territories, Executive Committee of the Canadian Committee on Women’s History, 2011 – 2013.
Co-Organizer (with Dr. Eric Sager), Teaching Workshop Committee, Department of History, University of Victoria, 2011.
Graduate Student Representative, Sessional Committee, Department of History, University of Victoria, 2010 – 2011.
Representative for the University of Victoria, Graduate Student Committee of the Canadian Historical Association, 2007 – 2010.
Assistant to the Chair, University of Victoria’s Academic Women’s Caucus, 2007 – 2008.
President and Webmaster, Graduate History Student Union, University of Victoria, 2007 – 2008.
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT/OUTREACH
2012 University 201: A Social History of Canada, University 101 Program, University of Victoria.
MEDIA COVERAGE
“Historians’ Book Traces Canadian Culture Through Its Kitchens,” Ottawa Citizen, January 21, 2013.
Anthony Bonaparte, “I Always Wanted to be a Ph.D.,” The Suburban, August 18, 2010, 26-27, 30.
Eryn Loeb, “Mother May I? Reading A Treasure for my Daughter, a 1950s guide to Jewish womanhood,” Tablet Magazine, June 11, 2009.
LANGUAGES
English (Fluent reading, speaking, and writing)
French (Fluent reading, speaking, and writing)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Canadian Historical Association
Canadian Committee on Women’s History
Society for the History of Childhood and Youth
