{"id":235,"date":"2009-10-21T10:29:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T14:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?page_id=235"},"modified":"2025-04-11T09:47:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T13:47:32","slug":"pamela-j-walker","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/pamela-j-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"Pamela J. Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>I am an historian of Modern Europe and Britain and women\u2019s and gender history, with interests in the history of race, the history of religion and African American history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I often teach with <em>Reacting to the Past, <\/em>an active learning pedagogy of role-playing games.&nbsp;In <em>Reacting to the Past<\/em> games, students are assigned character roles with specific goals and must communicate, collaborate, and compete effectively to advance their objectives.&nbsp;Reacting promotes engagement with big ideas and it is seriously fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A video about these games:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Reacting to the Past: The Student Perspective (2012)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_U6L9ERzw0U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2019, my colleague Martha Attridge Bufton and I won the <strong><em>Brilliancy Award<\/em><\/strong> for our teaching with <em>Reacting<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-carleton-newsroom wp-block-embed-carleton-newsroom\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"cT9h0Zp3ih\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/story\/playing-games-pays-off-carleton-ups-the-ante\/\">Playing Games Pays Off: Carleton Ups the Ante<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Playing Games Pays Off: Carleton Ups the Ante&#8221; &#8212; Carleton Newsroom\" src=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/story\/playing-games-pays-off-carleton-ups-the-ante\/embed\/#?secret=cT9h0Zp3ih\" data-secret=\"cT9h0Zp3ih\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I am now writing a <em>Reacting <\/em>game about British women who fought for the vote and organized hunger strikes when they were jailed, refused to pay taxes until they could vote, and petitioned Parliament. Their campaign allows us to ask what is equality for women, should campaigns for justice use militant tactics, and how are divisions among women part of women\u2019s activism?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am also at work on a project called \u201cMissions to the Metropolis\u201d that asks what does \u201cBritish race\u201d mean in the later nineteenth century. It examines race, Protestantism and gender in three British mission projects from 1870-1914. British Protestants were deeply engaged with colonial missionary work in the late nineteenth century. During these decades, Jewish immigrants to Britain posed new challenges to the idea of the Protestant nation. Many British women were dedicated to converting these newcomers. Transatlantic religious movements, encouraged by innovations in steamship travel and telegraph cables and long-standing missionary zeal, aimed to introduce new religious ideas and practices to Britons from the United States. This complex interplay of evangelical and missionary activities with different origins and targets but all at work in Britain allows a reconsideration of how Protestantism, an anchor of national identity, was remade and how that sheds light on British ideas of a gendered racial identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From 2007 to 2012, I was the Director of the Centre for Initiatives in Education (CIE) at Carleton University. The CIE provides a variety of programs to support non-traditional students entering BA studies. From 2011 to 2014 I was Joint Chair in Women\u2019s Studies\/Chaire Conjointe en Etudes des Femmes, a research and teaching position held jointly by Carleton University and University of Ottawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Select Honours and Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer, Women&#8217;s Studies in Religion, The Divinity School, Harvard University, 1993-94<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Teaching Excellence Award, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Carleton University, 2002<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SSHRC Standard Research Grant 2007-2010<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Brilliancy Prize, The Reacting to the Past Consortium, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Select Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Pulling the Devil\u2019s Kingdom Down: The Salvation Army in Victorian Britain<\/em> (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2001)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beverly Mayne Kienzle and Pamela J. Walker, <em>Women Preachers and Prophets Through Two Millennia of Christianity<\/em>, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGender, Radicalism and Female Preaching in Nineteenth Century Britain: Catherine Booth\u2019s Female Preaching\u201d <em>Strangely Familiar<\/em>, Nancy Koyzis editor, Boston: Society for Biblical Literature, 2009: 171-184.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWomen\u2019s Preaching\u201d <em>Women, Gender and Religious Cultures in Britain 1800-1940<\/em>, Sue Morgan and Jacqueline deVries, eds. London: Routledge, 2010: 94-116.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAdoption and Victorian Culture\u201d <em>History of the Family<\/em> 11 (2006): 211-221<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Conversion of Rebecca Jarrett\u201d <em>History Workshop Journal<\/em> 58 (2004): 247-258.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cInterview with Dorothy Thompson\u201d <em>Radical History Review<\/em> 77: 4-19. Translated and reprinted in <em>Arts Historia Societat<\/em> 23:23-29<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recent Graduate Supervisions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Maren Wood<\/em> (2004),&nbsp;\u201cMen Behaving Badly: Humour and the (Re)presentations of Masculinities in Late Victorian Popular Culture, 1885-1895&#8243;<br>\nPhD in&nbsp;History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010.<br>\nCurrent Position: Founder and executive director Lilli Group<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Kirsten Leng<\/em> (2005) \u201cEine Politikerin von Top to Bottom: Rethinking the Life and Legacy of Eleanor Marx\u201d (Political Economy)<br>\nPhD in History and Women&#8217;s Studies from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor 2011.<br>\nACLS New Faculty Fellow at Columbia University with the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality 2013-2014.<br>\nCurrent Position: Assistant Professor in the Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2015- present<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Melissa Horne<\/em> (2008) \u201cBuilt for Mind and Spirit: The Socialization of Race Through Higher Education at Fisk University and Spelman College, 1881-1930\u201d<br>\nPhD in History, Rutgers University 2016.<br>\nCurrent position: Alumni Officer, Students and Young Alumni, University of Waterloo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Brittony Chartier<\/em> (2012) \u201cReversing the Gaze: Wasu, the Keys, and The Black Man on Europe and Western Civilization in the Interwar Years, 1933-1937\u201d, co-supervision with Prof. A. Bennett<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Jill Thayer<\/em> (2013) \u201cWhat has happened to the Neighbourhood: Gentrification in Mechanicsville and Hintonberg, Theories and Approaches\u201d, Women\u2019s and Gender Studies, co-supervision with Prof. F. 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