{"id":188,"date":"2009-10-21T09:57:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T13:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?page_id=188"},"modified":"2025-10-07T15:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T19:18:42","slug":"joanna-e-dean","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/joanna-e-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"Joanna E. Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I am an environmental historian studying the more-than-human world of plants and animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am currently on sabbatical, completing a book on the woods on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. I curated an exhibit, “Six Moments in the History of an Urban Forest,” <\/a>at the Bytown Museum in Ottawa in 2012, and have published on the unruliness of city trees; social inequities in the distribution of canopy cover; Marshall McLuhan’s coining of the term \u201curban forest,” and the use of geospatial analysis of historical aerial photographs to measure physical changes in urban forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have been teaching animal history for over 20 years. I am a founding editor of the new journal, Animal History, <\/a>scheduled for publication in early 2025. I have written a series of chapters and blogs on the depiction of horses, calves, and guinea pigs at the Connaught Laboratories in Toronto. I ran a lecture series, Beastly Histories<\/a>, and co-edited Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human Animal Relations in Urban Canada<\/a> <\/em>(2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most recently, I started teaching about climate change. I assisted in the development of Carleton’s Minor in Environmental and Climate Humanities (EACH<\/a>) and occasionally teach the core course. In 2023, I hosted a lecture series, Climate History<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My doctoral research was in women’s history, published as Religious Experience and the New Woman: The Life of Lily Dougall<\/a><\/em> (2007) and gender analysis continues to inform my teaching and writing. In my contribution to the collection, The Nature of Canada<\/a> (2019) I point to the contributions made by the pacifist group, Voice of Women, to the first Greenpeace voyage.  I am currently researching gender in Greenpeace’s early antiwhaling protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See below for some of the fascinating work done by the undergraduate and graduate students I have been lucky enough to work with at Carleton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Six Moments in the History of an Urban Forest, on exhibit at the Bytown Museum in 2012. Photo Credit: Bytown Museum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Select Publications<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGuinea Pig Agnotology,\u201d in Traces of the Animal Past: Methodological Challenges in Animal History<\/em>, edited by Jennifer Bonnel and Sean Kheraj (University of Calgary Press, 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPublic History,\u201d in Handbook of the Historical Animal<\/em>, edited by Mieke Roscher, Andr\u00e9 Krebber and Brett Mizelle (Routledge, 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDougall, Lily,\u201d The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women\u2019s Writing<\/em>, edited by Lesa Scholl (2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A Gendered Sense of Canada,” in The Nature of Canada<\/a> edited by Colin M. Coates and Graeme Wynn (UBC Press, 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnimal Matter: The Making of \u2018Pure Bovine Vaccine at the Connaught Laboratories and Farm at the Turn of the Century.\u201d In Landscapes of Science<\/em>.<\/a> Edited by Tina Adcock. Toronto: Network in Canadian History and Environment, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada<\/em><\/a> edited with Darcy Ingram and Christabelle Sethna (University of Calgary Press, 2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSpecies at Risk: C. tetani<\/em>, the horse and the human,\u201d<\/a> in Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada<\/em> edited by Joanna Dean, Darcy Ingram, and Christabelle Sethna (University of Calgary Press, 2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHorse Power in the Modern City,\u201d with Lucas Wilson in Powering Up: A Social of the Fuels and Energy that Created Modern Canada, <\/i>edited by Ruth Sandwell (McGill Queens UP, 2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“The Unruly Tree: Stories from the Archives,” in <\/span>Urban Forests, Trees and Greenspace: A Political Ecology Perspective<\/em>, edited by L. Anders Sandberg, Adrina Bardekjian, and Sadia Butt (Routledge, 2014).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Jon Pasher, \u201cMapping Ottawa’s Urban Forest through Time,\u201d<\/a> Historical GIS Research in Canada<\/i>, edited by Jennifer Bonnell and  Marcel Fortin, (University of Calgary Press, 2013).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Social Production of a Canadian Urban Forest,\u201d in Environmental and Social Justice in the City: Historical Perspectives<\/i>, edited by Richard Rodger and Genevieve Massard-Guilbaud (White Horse Press, 2011).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSeeing Trees, Thinking Forests: Urban Forestry at the University of Toronto in the 1960s,\u201d <\/a>in Method and Meaning in Canadian Environmental History<\/i>, edited by Alan MacEachern and William Turkel (Thomson Nelson, 2008).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOttawa\u2019s Central Park: Esthetic Forestry vs. Ornamental Gardens,\u201d In News of Forest History<\/i>, 36-37, Proceedings of the International IUFRO Conference \u201cWoodlands – Cultural Heritage\u201d 3-5 May 2004, Vienna, Austria, 21-30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Religious Experience and the New Woman: The Life of Lily Dougall<\/a><\/em> <\/i>(Indiana University Press, 2007).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women\u2019s Archives Guide\/Guides des Archives sur les Femmes,<\/i> with David Fraser. (Ottawa: National Archives of Canada, 1991).<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\nCurrent Graduate Supervisions<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Casarina Hocevar, PhD program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent Graduate Supervisions<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Susan Haight, Object Lessons: Domestic Interiors on Display at Eaton’s Toronto Department Stores<\/a> PhD thesis, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cristina Wood<\/a>, “Songs of the Ottawa,” MA in Public History. Available at www.songsoftheottawa.ca<\/a>.  Awarded the University Medal for outstanding research.See this article<\/a> about her fascinating work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Hogenbirk, \u201cWomen Inside the Canadian Military, 1938-1966 \u201d<\/a> PhD thesis, 2017. (Co-supervisor.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renee McFarlane, “Conflict and Preservation: A Human History of Animals in Gatineau Park, 1938-1958,”<\/a> MA thesis, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Constance Gunn, \u201cThe Women\u2019s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa: Constructing Public Memory, and Preserving History in a Changing City, 1898-1932,\u201d<\/a> MA thesis, 2016. (Co-supervisor).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kathryn Boschmann, “Being Irish on the Prairies: Repertoire, performance and environment in oral history narratives of Winnipeg Irish Canadians<\/a>,” MA thesis, 2015. (Co-supervisor). For the associated website, go to beingirishontheprairies.ca<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

William Knight, “Modelling Canada’s Aquatic Nature at the Dominion Fisheries Museum, 1884-1914<\/a>,” PhD thesis, 2014<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quinn Lanzon, “From the Ground Up: A History of Gatineau Park Ski Trails and Hills, 1920-1967<\/a>,” MA thesis, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lashia Jones, \u201cA Woman’s Place: Labour History and Spatial Mapping at Industrial Heritage Sites,\u201d  M.A. research essay in Canadian Studies Heritage Conservation, 2012. (Co-supervisor).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaitlin Wainwright, \u201cRavaged and Regenerative Landscapes: Placing the Canadian War Museum in its Environmental Context.\u201d M.A. research essay in Public History, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amanda Sauerman, \u201cBreeding and Exhibition of the Canine Body in Canada<\/a>\u201d M.A. thesis,  2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Vance, \u201cCharles Templeton and the Performances of Unbelief<\/a>,\u201d M.A. thesis, 2008. (Co-supervisor).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Miller, \u201cChurch, China and the Canadian State: The United Church’s campaign for the recognition of the People’s Republic of China,\u201d M.A. research essay, 2008. (co-supervisor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katherine Taylor, \u201cThe \u2018Year of the War Bride,\u2019 The Commemoration, Representation and Remembering of Canadian War Brides,\u201d M.A. research essay in Public History, 2007. (co-supervisor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Undergraduate Supervisions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victoria Hawkins, \u201cMade in Canada  Wonderbra:  The Bras and the Advertising of Montreal\u2019s Canadelle Inc., 1955-1975,\u201d Honours Research Essay, April, 2015. (History)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taylor Jackson Macmillan, \u201cJack Miner\u201d Honours Research Essay, April 2015. (History)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alex Copp, \u201cOttawa\u2019s Urban Forest as a Socio-ecological System,\u201d Honours Research Project, 2013. (Geography and Environmental Studies)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

K. Stephanie A. Smith, \u201cFrom Ottawa Fields to Canadian Flora: How the Central Experimental Farm\u2019s Botanic Garden and Arboretum contributed to the Development of the Ottawa Field Naturalists Club\u2019s National Focus,\u201d Honours Research Essay, 2015. (Geography and Environmental Studies)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18505,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Joanna E.","cu_people_last_name":"Dean","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-188","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Professor - environmental history, animal history, 19th-20th c. women\u2019s and gender history","cu_people_degree":"B.A. (Queen's), M.A. (Carleton), Ph.D. (Carleton)","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"joanna.dean@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"(613) 520-2828","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27199,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/188\/revisions\/27199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}