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Janice Cavell

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Adjunct Research Professor

Janice Cavell’s 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 “The Spirit of ’56: The Suez Crisis, Anti-Americanism, and Diefenbaker’s 1957 and 1958 Election Victories”

(Ottawa: Global Affairs Canada, 2016)

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

Shortlisted for the Canadian Historical Association’s Political History Book Prize

Website:

(University of Toronto Press, 2008)

Articles

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

“Canada and the High Arctic Islands, 1880–1930.” In Peder Roberts and Adrian Howkins, eds., , 325–353. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023

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

“The Sector Theory and the Canadian Arctic, 1897–1970.” International History Review 41, 6 (2019): 1168–1193 (online publication, May 2018)

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

“John Richardson’s ‘Missing’ Arctic Journal, 6–29 October 1821.” Polar Record 53, 6 (November 2017): 617–630 (online publication, February 2018)

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

“Canada’s Arctic Sector Claim in Historical Perspective: A Response to Alan MacEachern.” Polar Record 53, 2 (March 2017): 186–191 (online publication, November 2016)

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

“The Polar Regions.” In Carl Thompson, ed., , 425–434. London: Routledge, 2016

“Sector Claims and Counter-Claims: Joseph Elzéar Bernier, the Canadian Government, and Arctic Sovereignty, 1898–1934.” Polar Record 50, 254 (July 2014): 293–310 (online publication, July 2013)

“Publishing Sir John Franklin’s Fate: Cannibalism, Journalism, and the 1881 Edition of Leopold McClintock’s The Voyage of the ‘Fox’ in the Arctic Seas.” Book History 16 (2013): 155–184

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

“Miss Porden, Mrs. Franklin, and the Arctic Expeditions: Eleanor Anne Porden and the Construction of Arctic Heroism (1818–25).” In Frédéric Regard, ed., , 79–94. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013

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

“‘A Little More Latitude’: Explorers, Politicians, and Canadian Arctic Policy during the Laurier Era.” Polar Record 47, 243 (October 2011): 289–309 (online publication, December 2010)

“Manliness in the Life and Posthumous Reputation of Robert Falcon Scott.” Canadian Journal of History 45, 3 (Winter 2010): 537–564

Arctic 63, 2 (June 2010): 131–140

Northern Review 32 (Spring 2010): 5–34

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

“Canadiana Abroad: The Department of External Affairs’ Book Presentation Programmes, 1949–1963.” American Review of Canadian Studies 39, 2 (June 2009): 81–93

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

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

Arctic 61, 4 (December 2008): 433–441

“In the Margins: Regimental History and a Veteran’s Narrative of the First World War.” Book History 11 (2008): 199–219

“‘Like Any Good Wife’: Gender and Perceptions of Canadian Foreign Policy, 1945–1975.” International Journal 63, 2 (Spring 2008): 385–403

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

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

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

“Comparing Mythologies: Twentieth-Century Canadian Constructions of Sir John Franklin.” In Norman Hillmer and Adam Chapnick, eds., , 15–45. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007

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

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

“The Second Frontier: The North in English-Canadian Historical Writing.” Canadian Historical Review 83, 3 (September 2002): 364–389

Research Notes

“Further Evidence and Reflections on Joseph Elzéar Bernier’s 1907 and 1909 Sovereignty Claims.” Polar Record 49, 251 (October 2013): 406–408 (online publication, March 2012)

Polar

Record 46, 239 (October 2010): 372–373 (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): 1056–1057

. Globe and Mail, 28 October 2017, R10

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

Review of Gordon W. Smith, A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North: Terrestrial Sovereignty, 1870–1939. 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): 297–299

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

Other Publications

“Arctic Atlantis.” ): 20–27

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

Honours and Awards

2012 Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal