Jessica Dunkin
Contract Instructor
| Degrees: | B.A., B.Ed. (Trent), M.A., Ph.D.(Carleton) |
| Phone: | 613-520-2600 x 2828 |
| Email: | jdunkin@connect.carleton.ca |
| Website: | Browse |
My research centres on cultures of sport and leisure in Canada and the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Informed by feminist and postcolonial writing on space and everyday life, my doctoral dissertation is an exploration of the politics of play in the late nineteenth century that takes as its focus the annual meetings and encampments of the American Canoe Association. I have taught courses on the social history of sport, physical activity, and leisure at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa. I co-organized the Shannon Lecture Series in History in 2010, and Writing the Sixties: A Practical Symposium in 2008. I have also served on the programme committee for the Canadian Historical Association, the Underhill Colloquium, and the Institute of Political Economy Graduate Student Conference.
Research Interests
- Canadian/American social history, 19th-20th century
- History of women, gender, and sexuality
- History of sport, recreation, and leisure
Awards and Honours
- Peter Browne Memorial Scholarship (2012)
- SSHRC Joseph Bombardier Canadian Graduate Scholarship (2008-2011)
- Rudelle Hall Memorial Scholarship, Carleton University (2008)
- Shannon Scholarship in Social History, Carleton University (2007)
Select Publications
“Manufacturing Landscapes: Place and Community at Glen Bernard Camp, 1924-1933,” Histoire Sociale/Social History (Forthcoming May 2012).
Guest Editor with Bryan Grimwood, “Special Issue on Canoeing and Outdoor Education,” Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education (Summer 2010).
“Arctic Games,” “Camping and Hiking,” and “Canoeing and Kayaking” in The Encyclopedia of Play (London: SAGE Publications, 2009), 2100 words.
Selected Presentations
“The Canoe and the Woman: Paddling Against the Current of Social Convention in Canada and the United States, 1880-1950.” Presented at Moving Dangerously: Women and Travel, 1850-1950 at Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK. 13-14 April 2012.
“Producing and Consuming Spaces of Sport and Leisure: The Encampments and Regattas of the American Canoe Association, 1880-1914.” Presented at Environments of Mobility in Canadian History Workshop at Glendon College, Toronto, ON. 13-14 May 2011.
“‘A Recipe for Making a Most Delicious Summer’: The Experience of Nature at Glen Bernard Camp, 1922-1939.” Presented at the American Society for Environmental History in Tallahassee, Florida. 25 February – 1 March 2009.