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Janice Cavell

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Adjunct Research Professor

Janice Cavell鈥檚 research interests include Arctic sovereignty, the cultural history of Arctic exploration (with an emphasis on nineteenth-century print culture) and the role of women in polar exploration.

Publications

Books

(Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018). Co-edited with Ryan Touhey. Contributions: and 鈥淭he Spirit of ’56: The Suez Crisis, Anti-Americanism, and Diefenbaker鈥檚 1957 and 1958 Election Victories鈥

(Ottawa: Global Affairs Canada, 2016)

(UBC Press, 2010). Co-authored with Jeff Noakes

Shortlisted for the Canadian Historical Association鈥檚 Political History Book Prize

Website:

(University of Toronto Press, 2008)

Articles

Diplomatic History 47, 2 (April 2023): 304鈥328

鈥淐anada and the High Arctic Islands, 1880鈥1930.鈥 In Peder Roberts and Adrian Howkins, eds., , 325鈥353. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023

Journal of Canadian Studies 55, 1 (Winter 2021): 114鈥147

鈥淭he Sector Theory and the Canadian Arctic, 1897鈥1970.鈥 International History Review 41, 6 (2019): 1168鈥1193 (online publication, May 2018)

Arctic 71, 3 (September 2018): 292鈥308

鈥淛ohn Richardson鈥檚 鈥楳issing鈥 Arctic Journal, 6鈥29 October 1821.鈥 Polar Record 53, 6 (November 2017): 617鈥630 (online publication, February 2018)

Arctic 70, 3 (September 2017): 295鈥307

鈥淐anada鈥檚 Arctic Sector Claim in Historical Perspective: A Response to Alan MacEachern.鈥 Polar Record 53, 2 (March 2017): 186鈥191 (online publication, November 2016)

Journal of the Hakluyt Society (online only; published January 2017)

鈥淭he Polar Regions.鈥 In Carl Thompson, ed., , 425鈥434. London: Routledge, 2016

鈥淪ector Claims and Counter-Claims: Joseph Elz茅ar Bernier, the Canadian Government, and Arctic Sovereignty, 1898鈥1934.鈥 Polar Record 50, 254 (July 2014): 293鈥310 (online publication, July 2013)

鈥淧ublishing Sir John Franklin鈥檚 Fate: Cannibalism, Journalism, and the 1881 Edition of Leopold McClintock鈥檚 The Voyage of the 鈥楩ox鈥 in the Arctic Seas.鈥 Book History 16 (2013): 155鈥184

The Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 7th series 14, 1 (March 2013): 45鈥9

鈥淢iss Porden, Mrs. Franklin, and the Arctic Expeditions: Eleanor Anne Porden and the Construction of Arctic Heroism (1818鈥25).鈥 In Fr茅d茅ric Regard, ed., , 79鈥94. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013

Journal of the Canadian Historical Association ns 23, 1 (2012): 249鈥282

鈥溾楢 Little More Latitude鈥: Explorers, Politicians, and Canadian Arctic Policy during the Laurier Era.鈥 Polar Record 47, 243 (October 2011): 289鈥309 (online publication, December 2010)

鈥淢anliness in the Life and Posthumous Reputation of Robert Falcon Scott.鈥 Canadian Journal of History 45, 3 (Winter 2010): 537鈥564

Arctic 63, 2 (June 2010): 131鈥140

Northern Review 32 (Spring 2010): 5鈥34

Polar Record 45, 234 (July 2009): 237鈥241 (co-author with Jeff Noakes)

鈥淐anadiana Abroad: The Department of External Affairs鈥 Book Presentation Programmes, 1949鈥1963.鈥 American Review of Canadian Studies 39, 2 (June 2009): 81鈥93

Polar Record 45, 233 (April 2009): 97鈥112 (co-author with Jeff Noakes)

Polar Record 45, 232 (January 2009): 25鈥35

Arctic 61, 4 (December 2008): 433鈥441

鈥淚n the Margins: Regimental History and a Veteran鈥檚 Narrative of the First World War.鈥 Book History 11 (2008): 199鈥219

鈥溾楲ike Any Good Wife鈥: Gender and Perceptions of Canadian Foreign Policy, 1945鈥1975.鈥 International Journal 63, 2 (Spring 2008): 385鈥403

Polar Record 44, 228 (January 2008): 25鈥34

Journal of the Canadian Historical Association ns 18, 1 (2007): 157鈥178

Polar Record 43, 225 (April 2007): 155鈥164

鈥淐omparing Mythologies: Twentieth-Century Canadian Constructions of Sir John Franklin.鈥 In Norman Hillmer and Adam Chapnick, eds., , 15鈥45. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2007

Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 44, 2 (Fall 2006): 7鈥43

 鈥淭he Imperial Race and the Immigration Sieve: The Canadian Debate on Assisted British Migration and Empire Settlement, 1900鈥1930.鈥 Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 34, 3 (September 2006): 345鈥367

鈥淭he Second Frontier: The North in English-Canadian Historical Writing.鈥 Canadian Historical Review 83, 3 (September 2002): 364鈥389

Research Notes

鈥淔urther Evidence and Reflections on Joseph Elz茅ar Bernier鈥檚 1907 and 1909 Sovereignty Claims.鈥 Polar Record 49, 251 (October 2013): 406鈥408 (online publication, March 2012)

Polar

Record 46, 239 (October 2010): 372鈥373 (online publication, February 2010)

Selected Book Reviews

Review of Andrew Stuhl, Unfreezing the Arctic: Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands. American Historical Review 124, 3 (June 2019): 1056鈥1057

. Globe and Mail, 28 October 2017, R10

Review of Adriana Craciun, Writing Arctic Disaster: Authorship and Exploration. Journal of Historical Geography 57 (May 2017): 108鈥109

Review of Gordon W. Smith, A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North: Terrestrial Sovereignty, 1870鈥1939. Polar Research 34, (online only; published September 2015)

Review of P. Whitney Lackenbauer, The Canadian Rangers: A Living History. Canadian Historical Review 95, 2 (June 2014): 297鈥299

. Polar Record 47, 240 (January 2011): 91鈥92 (online publication, February 2010)

Other Publications

鈥淎rctic Atlantis.鈥 ): 20鈥27

Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online only; published July 2019)

Honours and Awards

2012 Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal