History

Janis Thiessen

Assistant Professor

Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Oral History Association

phone: 204.786.9947
fax: 204.774:4134
office: 3A31
email: ja.thiessen@uwinnipeg.ca
http://members.shaw.ca/janisthiessen/

Degrees

B.Sc. (University of Manitoba)

B.Ed. (University of Manitoba)

M.A. (Universities of Winnipeg & Manitoba)

Ph.D. (University of New Brunswick)

Areas of interest

Labour History; Religious History; Oral History.

Courses

2120(3): The History of the Modern Business Enterprise

2500(6): History of Canada to 1939

Selected Publications

Manufacturing Mennonites: Work and Religion in Post-War Manitoba. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.

"Communism and Labor Unions: The Changing Perspectives of Mennonites in Canada and the United States." Direction 38 no. 1 (Spring 2009): 17-28.

"Winnipeg's Palliser Furniture in the Context of Mennonite Views on Industrial Relations, 1974 - 1996." Chapter in Prairie Metropolis: New Essays on Winnipeg Social History, ed. Essyllt W. Jones and Gerald Friesen. (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2009). Recipient of the Carol Shield Winnipeg Book Award 2010.