Heather Green
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Assistant Professor
B.A. Honours (Cape Breton University)
M.A. (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Ph.D. (University of Alberta)
McNally North 229
P: 902-420-5769
E: heather.green@smu.ca
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Dr. Heather Green specializes in environmental history and histories of Indigenous-setter relations, particularly interested in histories of mining, resource extraction, energy production, and tourism. While her work primarily focuses on the Canadian North, she has also researched mining, energy production, and Indigenous activism in the American Southwest. Prior to coming to Saint Mary鈥檚, Heather held a postdoctoral fellowship with the Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University and a Fulbright Canada Research Scholar fellowship with the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona. Heather is an editor and executive member of the Network in Canadian History and Environment.
Heather teaches Canadian history, environmental history, and Indigenous history.
Selected Publications:
Green, H and M. Papai. 鈥淎dvertising for Beer: Local Identity and the Klondike Brewery, 1900鈥�1920.鈥� The Northern Review 49 (2020): 133鈥�165.
Piper, L. and H. Green. 鈥淎 Province Powered by Coal: The Renaissance of Coal Mining in Late-Twentieth Century Alberta.鈥� Canadian Historical Review 98, 3 (Sept 2017): 532-567.
Green, H. 鈥淭he Rise of Motherhood: Maternal Feminism and Health in the Rural Prairie Provinces, 1900-1930.鈥� Past Imperfect 20 (2017).
Green, H. 鈥淭here is no memory of it here鈥�: Closure and Memory of the Polaris Mine in Resolute Bay, 1973-2012.鈥� Mining and Communities in Northern Canada: History, Politics and Memory. Eds. J. Sandlos and A. Keeling Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2015. 294-314.
Green, H. 鈥淪tate, Company and Community Relations at the Polaris Mine (Nunavut) /L'脡tat, l鈥檈nterprise, et la communaut茅 relations 脿 la mine Polaris (Nunavut).鈥� 脡迟耻诲别蝉/滨苍耻颈迟/厂迟耻诲颈别蝉 37,2 (Dec. 2013): 37-57.
Selected Grants and Awards:
SSHRC Insight Grant, Mining, Clearing, and Reclaiming the Rocky Mountains and Foothills, 1947-2018, collaborator (principle investigator: Dr. Liza Piper, University of Alberta) (2019-2023)
Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Scholar, University of Arizona (2018-2019)
L.R. Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship, Wilson Institute for Canadian History (2018-2020)
Queen Elizabeth II Award, University of Alberta (2017)
Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship (2015)
Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship 鈥� Doctoral Award, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2014-2017)
Queen Elizabeth II Award, University of Alberta (2012)
Pickersgill Fellowship, Provincial Government of Newfoundland (2012)
Joseph A. Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship 鈥� Master鈥檚 Award, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2011-2012)