Kerry Abel
Professor Emerita
- B.A. (Queen’s), M.A. (Manitoba), Ph.D. (Queen’s)
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Kerry Abel has taught history for many years at 杏吧原创 (and formerly at the University of Manitoba and Queen鈥檚) with an emphasis on the history of northern Canada and its Indigenous peoples. Prior to her university career, she worked as a public historian for the government of Manitoba. She is interested in integrating social and cultural history with political, economic, and environmental concerns. Her current project, a life-and-times biography of Englishwoman Elizabeth Simcoe (1762-1850), may seem to have taken her in an entirely new direction, but is allowing her to explore questions about the past that have always fascinated her: the interplay of the personal, the political, and the cultural, and the role of bigger processes of historical change in shaping individual lives.
Current Research:
鈥淢rs. Simcoe: A Life in the Age of Revolution鈥
Selected Publications:
Changing Places: History, Community, and Identity in Northeastern Ontario (McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2006).
Drum Songs: Glimpses of Dene History, 2nd edition (McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2005).
Northern Visions: New Perspectives on the North in Canadian History (Broadview Press, 2001). Edited with Ken S. Coates.
Aboriginal Resource Use in Canada: Historical and Legal Aspects (University of Manitoba Press, 1991). Edited with Jean Friesen.
Honours and Awards
2007 Clio Award, Canadian Historical Association, for the best book on Ontario history (Changing Places)
2007 J.J. Talman Award, Ontario Historical Society, for the best book on Ontario鈥檚 social, economic, political, or cultural history published in the previous 3 years (Changing Places)
2007 Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario History, Champlain Society, for the best book on Ontario history (Changing Places)
2000-2003 Cojunct Professor, Trent University
2002 Choice outstanding academic title for Northern Visions
1996 Research Achievement Award, 杏吧原创 University
1993 Faculty of Arts Teaching Award, 杏吧原创 University
1981 James H. Gray Medal in Prairie History, University of Manitoba