University of Manitoba - Faculty of Arts - History - Adele Perry
Adele Perry

Director, Centre for Human Rights Research

Distinguished Professor

Office: 228 St. John's College
e-mail: Adele.Perry@umanitoba.ca
Phone: (204) 474-8107

Mailing Address:
228 St. John's College
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba  R3T 2M5

EDUCATION

Ph.D., York University
M.A., York University
B.A., Simon Fraser University
Dr. Adele Perry

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Canada; Western Canada; colonialism; transnationalism; migration; gender; sexuality

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

With Mary Jane Logan McCallum, Structures of Indifference: An Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City (University of Manitoba Press, 2018).

“Drinking Dispossession: Winnipeg, Shoal Lake 40, and Canada,” in Kiera Ladner and Myra Tait, eds., Surviving Canada: Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal (Winnipeg, ARP, 2017) 261-273.

Aqueduct: Colonialism, Resources, and the Histories We Remember, (ARP Books, 2016).

with Lara Campbell and Tamara Myers, eds., Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women`s History, 7th edition (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2016)

with Karen Dubinsky, Henry You (eds), Within and Without the Nation: Canadian History as Transnational History, (University of Toronto Press, 2015)

Colonial Relations: The Douglas-Connolly Family and the Nineteenth-Century Imperial World, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015

“Historiography that Breaks Your Heart: Sylvia Van Kirk and the Writing of Feminist History,” in Robin Jarvis Brownlie and Valerie Korinek, eds., Finding a Way to the Heart: Feminist Writings on Aboriginal and Women’s History in Canada (Winnipeg, University of Manitoba Press, 2012) 81-97.

“'Is your Garden in England, Sir?' Nation, Empire, and Home in James Douglas’ Archive,”  History Workshop Journal, number 70, Fall 2010,  67-85

“Women, Racialized People, and the Making of the Liberal Order in northern North America,” in Jean-François Constant and Michel Ducharme, eds., Liberalism and Hegemony: Debating the Canadian Liberal Revolution (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2009).

“The Colonial Archive On Trial: Possession, Dispossession, and History in Delgamuukw v. British Columbia," in Antoinette Burton, ed., Archive Stories: Evidence, Experience, History (Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2005).

On The Edge of Empire: Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001).

COURSES TAUGHT

2019-2020
HIST 1400 Canada Nation since 1867
HIST 2282 Inventing Canada
HIST 3442 Race, Ethnicity, Immigration, and Nation in Canadian History

2018-2019
HIST 1400 Canadian Nation since 1867
HIST 2282 Inventing Canada
HIST 3572 History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Canada

2017-2018
HIST 2280 Aboriginal History of Canada (Fall term)
HIST 3572 History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Canada
HIST 4060/7750 Gender History in Canada