History

Mary Jane McCallum

Assistant Professor

Office: 2B19 Bryce Hall
Phone: 204.786.9412
Fax: 204.774.4134
e-mail: m.mccallum@uwinnipeg.ca

Degrees
B.A. Honours (McMaster)
M.A. (Trent)
Ph.D. (University of Manitoba)
 
Areas of Interest
My work is inspired by Aboriginal women's histories and is invested in reshaping modern Aboriginal history in ways that engage with Native and Indigenous Studies, gender and women's history, labour history, medical/health history and histories of race in Canada.







Ruth Christie, Winnipeg, ca 1953

Courses
1010(6): Issues in the History of Women in Canada
3523(3): Aboriginal Women's Twentieth Century History
3542(6): Gender, Class and Ethnicity in Canadian History
3590(3): Indigenous Health History
4530(6): Canadian Social History
7517(6): Studies in Canadian History (Graduate)

Selected Publications
“The Fundamental Things: Camp Fire Girls and Authenticity, 1910-1920.” Canadian Journal of History, 40:1 (April, 2005): 45-66.

“This Last Frontier: ‘Isolation’ and Aboriginal Health.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 22:1 (2005): 103-120.

With Aroha Harris, ‘“Assaulting the Ears of Government”: The Work of the Maori Women’s Welfare League and the Indian Homemakers’ Clubs in the 1950s and 60s’, in Carol Williams, ed, Women at Work: A Transnational Study of Aboriginal and Native American Women’s Labor from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Modern Era (forthcoming, University of Illinois Press)

 “Indigenous Labor and Indigenous History” American Indian Quarterly 33:4 (Fall 2009): 523-544.

With Susan M. Hill, “Guest Editors’ Remarks” in “Working from Home in American Indian History” Special Issue, American Indian Quarterly 33:4 (Fall 2009): ix-xix.

With David Gregory, Brenda Elias and Karen Grant, “Self-Determination and the Swampy Cree Tribal Council: A Case Study Involving Nursing Education in Northern Manitoba,” The Canadian Journal of Nursing Research 40:2 (June 2008): 132-49.

Twice As Good – A History of Aboriginal Nurses. Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada, Ottawa, 2007.

With Denise Fuchs, eds. Intersecting Worlds: Rural and Urban Aboriginal Issues. Winnipeg: St. John’s College Press, 2005.