Associate Professor Emerita
UTM Historical Studies
647-228-9443
Campus
- Mississauga (UTM)
Cross-Appointments
Graduate Faculty, STG
Fields of Study
- Canada
- Empires, Colonialisms and Indigeneity
- Gender, Sex, and Sexualities
- Social
Areas of Interest
Early Canada: social reform; settler and Haudenosaunee women; public history.
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
Publications
- Along a River: The First French-Canadian Women (University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division : 2013)