Sharon Wall

Title: Professor
Phone: 204.258.2957
Office: 3A37
Building: Ashdown
Email: s.wall@uwinnipeg.ca

Courses:

HIST-2508(3/6) Issues in the History of Women in Canada
HIST-3571(3or6) History of Feminism in Canada
HIST-3572(3or6) History of Childhood
HIST-3544(6) History of Winnipeg
HIST-2514(3) History of Canadian Education

Research Interests:
Canadian Social and Cultural History, Childhood and Youth, Gender and sexuality, Education, Urban History

Publications:

Selected Publications

“It’s a Man’s Life”: Masculinity and the Marketing of Post-war Military Employment, Peer-reviewed Abstract, Proceedings of the 19th Bienniel Conference on Historical Analysis and Research in Marketing (CHARM), Vol, 19, 2019. Available at: https://ojs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/pcharm/issue/view/122

 "'Not ... the Same Damaging Effects'?: Unmarried Pregnancy, the Canadian State, and First Nations Communities in Early Postwar British Columbia," Histoire Sociale/Social History, 50, 102 (November 2017), 369-96.

 "'Some thought they were 'in Love': Sex, White Teenagehood, and Unmarried Pregnancy in Early Postwar Canada," Journal of the Canadian Historical   Association 25, 1 (2014): 207-41. *Winner: Best Article Prize, Journal of the          

 Canadian Historical Association, Awarded 2015. 

"They're 'More children than Adults': Teens, Unmarried Pregnancy and the Canadian Medical Profession, 1945-61," Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 31, 2 (2014):  49-69. Special issue on Reproductive Health History. 

 “Making Room(s) for Teenagers: Space and Place at Maternity Homes in Postwar BC   and Ontario,” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 7,3  (Fall 2014): 509-33. 

The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Antimodernism and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-1955. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2009).

"Making Modern Childhood, the Natural Way: Psychology, Mental Hygiene and Progressive Education at Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-1955." Historical Studies in Education 20, 2 (Fall 2008): 73-110.

"Totem Poles, Tepees and Token Traditions: 'Playing Indian' at Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-1955,"The Canadian Historical Review 86, 3 (September 2005): 513-544.

"'To Train a Wild Bird': E.F. Wilson, Hegemony and Native Industrial Education at the Shingwauk and Wawanosh Residential Schools, 1873-1893,Left History 9, 1 (Fall/Winter 2003): 7-42.