Jan Noel
First Name:
Jan
Last Name:
Noel
Email :
jan.noel@utoronto.ca
Title:
Associate Professor Emerita
Phone :
647-228-9443
Office Location :
UTM Historical Studies
Biography :
Jan Noel joined the University of Toronto's History and Historical Studies Departments in 1990 as an Early Canada specialist.
She has written some 35 monographs, including prizewinning scholarship on Indigenous women traders (New York History Award) as well as Canada Dry, a study of the temperance movement (Macdonald Prize). Her article "A Man of Letters and Gender Troubles of 1837" was chosen as Canadian Historical Review article of the year 2017.
Her book Along a River: The First French Canadian Women (UTP 2013) was followed in 2020 by "Merchant Women of New France" for a project organized by Le Bibliotheque Nationale de France and other national archives.
Education:
PhD, University of Toronto
MA, University d'Ottawa
BA, University of Toronto
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Areas of Interest:
Early Canada: social reform; settler and Haudenosaunee women; public history.
Cross-Appointments:
Graduate Faculty, STG
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