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Name: JEAN BARMAN
Professor Emeritus
Department of Educational Studies
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Education: EdD, History of education, University of British Columbia, 1982
MLS, Librarianship, University of California at Berkeley, 1970
MA, Russian studies, Harvard University, 1963
BA, International relations and history, Macalester College, 1961
Recent academic Associate member, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Victoria, 2009-
work experience: Grace MacInnis Visiting Scholar, Simon Fraser University, Fall 2009
Instructor, Athabasca University, 2005-08
Instructor, Simon Fraser University, 2006, 2011
Faculty member, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia,
1987-2005 (as well as teaching, supervised 21 doctoral students to completion,
on doctoral committees of another 40 and outside examiner of 44 others,
and worked with 84 magisterial students; currently on 3 doctoral committees)
Awards: George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award, 2014
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, 2012
Canadian Women's Studies Association Outstanding Scholarship Book Prize, 2012
Canadian Historical Association Prize for service to British Columbia history, 2009
City of Vancouver Book Prize, 2006
BC Historical Federation award for best article published in British Columbia History,
2006
Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality Award for best article on the history
of sexuality in Canada published the past two years, 2006
Lieutenant-Governor's Medal for best book on British Columbia history, 2004
Canadian Historical Association Prize for best book on British Columbia, 2004, 1992
Vancouver Historical Society Annual Award of Merit, 2003
Royal Society of Canada Fellow, elected 2002.
Washington State Historical Society Charles Gates Award for best article, 2000
Joan Jensen-Darlis Miller Prize, awarded by the Coalition for Western Women's
History for best article on the history of women west of the Mississippi, 1999
UBC Killam Teaching Prize, 1996
Canadian History of Education Association's Founders' Prize, winner, 1992-93, 1989
Recent Council, Vancouver Institute, 2006-
professional Member, Scholarly Integrity Standing Committee, UBC, 2004-
service: Invited witness, Senate Standing Committee on Aboriginal Peoples, 2013
Grace McInnis Visiting Scholar, Simon Fraser University, 2009
McLean Lecturer in Legal History, University of Victoria, 2007
Women in scholarship committee, Royal Society of Canada, 2005-08
Barman resume - 2 of 5
Program committee, Canadian Historical Association, 2006-07
Editor of Academy 1, Royal Society of Canada, 2004-07
Editorial board, Canadian Historical Association, Journal, 2002-06
Jury, Canada Council of the Arts, 2005-06
Editorial board, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 1997-2006
Publications committee, Royal Society of Canada, 2004-05
Editorial board, UBC Press, 1999-2005
Co-editor, BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, 1995-2002
Advisory board, Encyclopedia of British Columbia, 1998-2000
Member of council, Canadian Historical Association, 1995-98
Recent Member, Museum of Vancouver, City Shapers Committee, 2012-
community Academic member, Archives and History Committee, United Church of Canada, 2009-
service: Heritage consultant, City of Vancouver, City of Richmond, City of New Westminster,
Salmon Arm, West Kootenays and Boundary, Port Coquitlam, University of
British Columbia, Vancouver Convention Centre plaque projects, 2005-
Director, Pacific BookWorld News Society (BC BookWorld), 1994-
Board member, Chinese Canadian History Society of British Columbia, 2003-12
Member, Vancouver 125 Publications Committee, 2011
Member, BC150 BC Moments Panel, Speaker's Office, BC Government, 2008-09
Board member, Friends of the Vancouver Archives, 2004-09
Consultant, Parks Canada, 2004-08
Member, Vancouver City Council, Downtown Historic Greenway Committee, 2002-5
Member, Vancouver Museum Revitalization Project, 2001-02
Regular contributor, Almanac program, CBC Vancouver, 1998-2002
Director, BC Heritage Trust, 1992-99, first vice-chair, 1994-98, chair 1998-99
Books:
French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest. Vancouver: UBC
Press, 2014.
Edited with Cheryl Suzack, Jeanne Perreault, and Shari Huhndorf, Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics,
Activism, Culture. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010.
British Columbia: Spirit of the People. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour for BC150 and the Province of British
Columbia, 2008.
Edited with Robert A.J. McDonald and Jill Wade, Readings in the History of British Columbia. 3rd ed.
Kamloops: Thompson Rivers University, 2008. Also Burnaby: Open Learning Agency, 1997;
1989.
The West beyond the West: A History of British Columbia. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 3rd. ed.,
2007, rev. 1996, orig. 1991.
With Jan Hare, Good Intentions Gone Awry: Emma Cosby and the Methodist Mission on the Northwest
Coast. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006.
With Bruce Watson, Leaving Paradise: Indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest, 1787-1898.
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006.
Stanley Park's Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch, and Brockton Point.
Madeira Park, BC: Harbour, 2005.
Maria Mahoi of the Islands. Vancouver: New Star, 2004.
The Remarkable Adventures of Portuguese Joe Silvey. Raincoast Chronicles Monograph no. 1. Madeira
Park, BC: Harbour, 2004.
Edited with Mona Gleason, Children, Teachers and Schools in the History of British Columbia. 2nd ed.
Calgary: Detselig, 2003. 1st co-edited with Neil Sutherland and J.D. Wilson, 1995.
Sojourning Sisters: The Lives and Letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen. Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 2003.
Barman resume - 3 of 5
Constance Lindsay Skinner: Writing on the Frontier. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.
Edited with Marie Battiste, First Nations Education in Canada: The Circle Unfolds. Vancouver: UBC
Press, 1995.
Edited with Neil Sutherland and Linda Hale, Contemporary Canadian Childhood and Youth: A Bibliography
and History of Canadian Childhood and Youth: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.
With Linda Hale, British Columbia Local Histories: A Bibliography. Victoria: BC Heritage Trust, 1991.
History of British Columbia. Richmond: Open University, 1991, revised 1997, Materials for second-year
university credit course, HIST 225, consisting of course manual, 15 lesson units, chronology, photo
album, map file, additional readings and assignments.
Edited with Yvonne Hébert and Don McCaskill, Indian Education in Canada. Vol l: The Legacy and
vol. 2: The Challenge. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1986 and 1987.
Edited with R.A.J. McDonald, Vancouver Past: Essays in Social History. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1986.
Growing Up British in British Columbia: Boys in Private School. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1984.
Articles and book chapters:
"Indian Residential Schools' Negotiation of Aboriginal Interraciality,"; forthcoming in edited volume in honour
of Jim Miller (University of Toronto Press).
"What a Difference a Border Makes: Putting Perspective on Blacks' Experiences in Early British Columbia and
Western Canada,"; under consideration for publication.
"Beyond Chinatown: Chinese Men and Indigenous Women in Early British Columbia,"; BC Studies: The British
Columbian Quarterly 117 (Spring 2013): 39-64.
With Mike Evans, Gabrielle Legault and Erin Dolmage. "Métis Networks in British Columbia: Examples from
the Central Interior," 331-67 in Contours of a People: Metis Family, Mobility, and History, ed. Nicole
St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012).
"Preface,"; Larry Wong, Dim Sum Stories: A Chinatown Childhood (Vancouver: Chinese Canadian Historical
Society of British Columbia, 2011).
"Sophie Morigeau: Free Trader, Free Woman,"; 175-95 in Sarah Carter and Patricia McCormack, ed.,
Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands (Athabasca:
Athabasca University Press, 2011).
"Race, Greed, and Something More: The Erasure of Urban Indigenous Space in Early Twentieth-Century
British Columbia,"; in Tracey Banivauna-Mar and Penelope Edmonds, ed., Making Space: Settler-Colonial Perspectives on Land, Place and Identity. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 155-73.
"Indigenous Women and Feminism on the Cusp of Contact,"; 92-108 in Cheryl Suzack, Jeanne Perreault, Shari
Huhndorf, and Jean Barman, ed., Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture.
Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010.
"Taking Local History Seriously,"; BC Studies 165 (Spring 2010): 101-06.
With Mike Evans, "Reflections on Being, and Becoming, Métis in British Columbia,"; BC Studies: The British
Columbian Quarterly 161 (Spring 2009), 59-91.
"Cascadia Once Upon A Time,"; 89-114 in Douglas Todd, ed., Cascadia, The Elusive Utopia: Exploring the
Spirit of the People of the Pacific Northwest (Vancouver: Ronsdale, 2008).
"British Columbia in Jane Austen's Time."; Persuasions (journal of the Jane Austen society) 29 (2007):
39-53.
"Writing Women into the History of the North American Wests, One Woman at a Time,"; 99-127 in Elizabeth
Jameson and Sheila McManus, ed., One Step Over the Line: Toward a History of Women in the North
American Wests. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2008.
"Preface,"; Daphne Sleigh, The Man Who Saved Vancouver: Major James Skitt Matthews (Victoria:
Harbour House, 2008), x-xiii.
"Erasing Indigenous Indigeneity in Vancouver."; BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly 155
(Autumn 2007), 3-30.
"Lost in the Crowd,"; 84-87, and "Alone and Lonely,"; 89-91, in Mark Forsythe and Greg Dickson, The Trail of
1858: British Columbia's Gold Rush Past (Madeira Park: Harbour, 2007)
Barman resume - 4 of 5
"Preface,"; Brandy Liên Worrall, ed, Finding Memories, Tracing Routes: Chinese Canadian Family Stories.
Bilingual Chinese-English edition (Vancouver: Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British
Columbia, 2007), i-xii, and English edition (Vancouver: Chinese Canadian Historical Society, British Columbia, 2006), i-vi.
"Integrating British Columbia - and the Rest of Canada - into Canada's History,"; Canadian Issues: Thèmes
canadiens, Autumn 2006: 37-39.
"At the Edge of Law's Empire: Aboriginal interraciality, citizenship, and the law in British Columbia,";
Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 26, 1 (2006), 3-22.
"A British Columbian View of Regions,"; Acadiensis 35, 2 (Spring 2006), 144-56.
With Jan Hare. "Good Intentions Gone Awry: From protection to incarceration at Emma Crosby's Home for
Girls, 1874-1897,"; 179-98 in Celia Haig-Brown and David Nock, ed., Beyond Good Intentions:
Euro-Canadian and Aboriginal Relations in Colonial Canadas. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006.
"Aboriginal Women on the Streets of Victoria: Engendering transgressive sexuality during the gold
rush,"; 205-27 in Myra Rutherdale and Katie Pickles, ed., Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada's Colonial Past. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005.
"Introduction,"; Constance Lindsay Skinner, Birthright. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2005.
"Jean Barman's 10 BC Adventurers,"; in Mark Forsythe and Greg Dickson, The BC Almanac Book of
Greatest British Columbians (Madeira Park: Harbour, 2005), 79-81.
With J.I. Little, "'An educator of modern views': The (Auto)biography of Margaret Ross, 1862-
1943,"; Historical Studies in Education 17, 2 (Fall 2005): 337-61.
"Lost Nanaimo--taking back our past,"; British Columbia History 38, 3 (2005): 15-22, and Shale 8 (June
2004): 16-26.
"Introduction,"; Douglas Hamilton, Sobering Dilemma: A History of Liquor Prohibition in British Columbia.
Vancouver: Ronsdale, 2004.
"Encounters with Sexuality: The Management of Inappropriate Body Behaviour in Late-Nineteenth
Century British Columbia Schools,"; Historical Studies in Education 16, 1 (Spring 2004): 85-104.
"Biographies in the Teaching of History,"; Canadian Issues, Autumn 2003: 5-10.
"Unpacking English Gentlemen Emigrants' Cultural Baggage: Apple orchards and private schools in British
Columbia's Okanagan Valley,"; British Journal of Canadian Studies 16: 1 (2003): 137-49.
"'Vancouver's First Playwright': Constance Lindsay Skinner and The Birthright,"; BC Studies: The
British Columbian Quarterly 137 (Spring 2003), 47-61.
"Schooled for Inequality: The Education of British Columbia Aboriginal Children," 55-79 in Barman and
Gleason, ed., Children, Teachers and Schools, above. Reprinted in Nancy Janovicek and Joy Parr, ed., Histories of Canadian Children and Youth (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2003); Jack Bumstead and Len Kuffert, ed., Post-Confederation Canada: A Reader (Toronto: Oxford University
Press, 2004); and Sara Burke and Patricia Milewski, ed., Schooling in Transition: Readings in
Canadian History of Education (University of Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012), 255-76.
"Separate and Unequal: Indian and White Girls at All Hallows School, 1884-1920,"; 283-302 in Barman and
Gleason, ed., Children, Teachers and Schools, above
"British Columbia's Pioneer Teachers,"; '171- 90 in Barman and Gleason, ed., Children, Teachers and Schools,
above.
"Reflections on the Role of the School in the Transition to Work in Resource Towns,"; 363-375 in Barman and
Gleason, ed., Children, Teachers and Schools, above.
"Transfer, Imposition or Consent: The Emergence of Educational Structures in Nineteenth-Century British
Columbia,"; 13-35 in Barman and Gleason, ed., Children, Teachers and Schools, above.
"Growing Up British in British Columbia: The Vernon Preparatory School, 1914-1946,"; 303-18 in Barman and
Gleason, ed., Children, Teachers and Schools, above.
"Seeing British Columbia," BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly 131 (Fall 2001), 9-14.
"Island sanctuaries--Early mixed race settlement on Gabriola and nearby coastal islands," Shale 2 (March
2001), 1-13.
"History of BC: Overview," Encyclopedia of British Columbia, ed. Daniel Francis. Madeira Park: Harbour,
2000, 331-42. Also available on KnowBC website.
Barman resume - 5 of 5
"British Columbia Needs No History. Or Does It?" in Mark Forsythe, British Columbia Almanac. Vancouver:
Arsenal Pulp Press, 2000), 168-72.
"Sex and Violence in the BC Archives: Adventures in Historical Detection," British Columbia Historical
News 34, 1 (Winter 2000/2001), 6-12.
With Jan Hare. "Aboriginal Education: Is There a Way Ahead?"; 331-59 in David Long and Olive Dickason,
ed., Visions of the Heart: Canadian Aboriginal Issues. 2nd ed. Toronto: Harcourt Canada, 2000.
"Family Life at Fort Langley,"; British Columbia Historical News 32, 4 (Fall 1999), 16-23.
With Bruce Watson. "Fort Colville's Fur Trade Families and the Dynamics of Aboriginal Racial Intermixture in the Pacific Northwest,"; Pacific Northwest Quarterly 90, 3 (Summer 1999), 140-53.
"What a Difference a Border Makes: Aboriginal Racial Intermixture in the Pacific Northwest,"; Journal of
the West 38,3 (July 1999), 14-20.
"Invisible Women: Aboriginal Mothers and Mixed-Race Daughters in Rural British Columbia,"; 159-79 in
R.W. Sandwell, ed., Beyond the City Limits: Rural History in British Columbia. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1999.
"Vancouver's Forgotten Entrepreneurs: Women Who Ran Their Own Schools,"; British Columbia
Historical News 31, 4 (Fall 1998), 21-29.
"Families vs. Schools: Children of Aboriginal Descent in British Columbia Classrooms of the Late
Nineteenth Century,"; 73-89 in Edgar-Andre Montigny and Lori Chambers, ed., Family Matters: Papers in Post-Confederation Canadian Family History. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 1998.
"Taming Aboriginal Sexuality: Gender, Power, and Race in British Columbia, 1850-1900,"; BC Studies: The
British Columbian Quarterly 115-16 (Fall-Winter 1997-98), 237-66. Reprinted in Mary Ann Irwin
and James F. Brooks, ed., Women and Gender in the American West (Albuquerque: University of
New Mexico Press, 2004), 210-35; J.M. Bumsted and Lent Kuffert, ed., Interpreting Canada's Past: A Post-Confederation Reader, 3rd ed. (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2004); Daniel Francis and Donald Smith, ed., Readings in Canadian History (Unionville ON: Thompson, 2006); Mary-Ellen
Kelm and Lorna Townsend, ed., In the Days of Our Grandmothers: A Reader in Aboriginal Women's
History in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006), 270-300.
"Whatever Happened to the Kanakas?" The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History 77:6 (December 1997/
January 1998), 12-19.
"'I walk my own track in life & no mere male can bump me off it': Constance Lindsay Skinner and the Work
of History,"; 129-63 in Beverly Boutilier and Alison Prentice, ed., Creating Historical Memory:
English-Canadian Women and the Work of History. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1997.
"Lost Okanagan: In Search of the First Settler Families,"; Okanagan History 60 (1996), 8-20.
"Aboriginal Education at the Crossroads: The Legacy of Residential Schools and the Way Ahead," 271-303 in
David Alan Long and Olive Patricia Dickason, ed., Visions of the Heart: Canadian Aboriginal Issues. Toronto: Harcourt, Brace, 1996. Reprinted in J.M. Bumsted and Lent Kuffert, ed., Interpreting Canada's Past: A Post-Confederation Reader, 3rd ed. (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2004).
"New Land, New Lives: Hawaiian Settlement in British Columbia," Hawaiian Journal of History 29 (1996),
1-32.
"Neighbourhood and Community in Interwar Vancouver: Residential Differentiation and Civic Voting
Behaviour," 97-141 in McDonald and Barman, ed., Vancouver Past above.
Earlier articles and book chapters available on request.
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Professor Emeritus
Department of Educational Studies
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Education: EdD, History of education, University of British Columbia, 1982
MLS, Librarianship, University of California at Berkeley, 1970
MA, Russian studies, Harvard University, 1963
BA, International relations and history, Macalester College, 1961
Recent academic Associate member, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Victoria, 2009-
work experience: Grace MacInnis Visiting Scholar, Simon Fraser University, Fall 2009
Instructor, Athabasca University, 2005-08
Instructor, Simon Fraser University, 2006, 2011
Faculty member, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia,
1987-2005 (as well as teaching, supervised 21 doctoral students to completion,
on doctoral committees of another 40 and outside examiner of 44 others,
and worked with 84 magisterial students; currently on 3 doctoral committees)
Awards: George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award, 2014
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, 2012
Canadian Women's Studies Association Outstanding Scholarship Book Prize, 2012
Canadian Historical Association Prize for service to British Columbia history, 2009
City of Vancouver Book Prize, 2006
BC Historical Federation award for best article published in British Columbia History,
2006
Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality Award for best article on the history
of sexuality in Canada published the past two years, 2006
Lieutenant-Governor's Medal for best book on British Columbia history, 2004
Canadian Historical Association Prize for best book on British Columbia, 2004, 1992
Vancouver Historical Society Annual Award of Merit, 2003
Royal Society of Canada Fellow, elected 2002.
Washington State Historical Society Charles Gates Award for best article, 2000
Joan Jensen-Darlis Miller Prize, awarded by the Coalition for Western Women's
History for best article on the history of women west of the Mississippi, 1999
UBC Killam Teaching Prize, 1996
Canadian History of Education Association's Founders' Prize, winner, 1992-93, 1989
Recent Council, Vancouver Institute, 2006-
professional Member, Scholarly Integrity Standing Committee, UBC, 2004-
service: Invited witness, Senate Standing Committee on Aboriginal Peoples, 2013
Grace McInnis Visiting Scholar, Simon Fraser University, 2009
McLean Lecturer in Legal History, University of Victoria, 2007
Women in scholarship committee, Royal Society of Canada, 2005-08
Barman resume - 2 of 5
Program committee, Canadian Historical Association, 2006-07
Editor of Academy 1, Royal Society of Canada, 2004-07
Editorial board, Canadian Historical Association, Journal, 2002-06
Jury, Canada Council of the Arts, 2005-06
Editorial board, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 1997-2006
Publications committee, Royal Society of Canada, 2004-05
Editorial board, UBC Press, 1999-2005
Co-editor, BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, 1995-2002
Advisory board, Encyclopedia of British Columbia, 1998-2000
Member of council, Canadian Historical Association, 1995-98
Recent Member, Museum of Vancouver, City Shapers Committee, 2012-
community Academic member, Archives and History Committee, United Church of Canada, 2009-
service: Heritage consultant, City of Vancouver, City of Richmond, City of New Westminster,
Salmon Arm, West Kootenays and Boundary, Port Coquitlam, University of
British Columbia, Vancouver Convention Centre plaque projects, 2005-
Director, Pacific BookWorld News Society (BC BookWorld), 1994-
Board member, Chinese Canadian History Society of British Columbia, 2003-12
Member, Vancouver 125 Publications Committee, 2011
Member, BC150 BC Moments Panel, Speaker's Office, BC Government, 2008-09
Board member, Friends of the Vancouver Archives, 2004-09
Consultant, Parks Canada, 2004-08
Member, Vancouver City Council, Downtown Historic Greenway Committee, 2002-5
Member, Vancouver Museum Revitalization Project, 2001-02
Regular contributor, Almanac program, CBC Vancouver, 1998-2002
Director, BC Heritage Trust, 1992-99, first vice-chair, 1994-98, chair 1998-99
Books:
French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest. Vancouver: UBC
Press, 2014.
Edited with Cheryl Suzack, Jeanne Perreault, and Shari Huhndorf, Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics,
Activism, Culture. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010.
British Columbia: Spirit of the People. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour for BC150 and the Province of British
Columbia, 2008.
Edited with Robert A.J. McDonald and Jill Wade, Readings in the History of British Columbia. 3rd ed.
Kamloops: Thompson Rivers University, 2008. Also Burnaby: Open Learning Agency, 1997;
1989.
The West beyond the West: A History of British Columbia. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 3rd. ed.,
2007, rev. 1996, orig. 1991.
With Jan Hare, Good Intentions Gone Awry: Emma Cosby and the Methodist Mission on the Northwest
Coast. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006.
With Bruce Watson, Leaving Paradise: Indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest, 1787-1898.
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006.
Stanley Park's Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch, and Brockton Point.
Madeira Park, BC: Harbour, 2005.
Maria Mahoi of the Islands. Vancouver: New Star, 2004.
The Remarkable Adventures of Portuguese Joe Silvey. Raincoast Chronicles Monograph no. 1. Madeira
Park, BC: Harbour, 2004.
Edited with Mona Gleason, Children, Teachers and Schools in the History of British Columbia. 2nd ed.
Calgary: Detselig, 2003. 1st co-edited with Neil Sutherland and J.D. Wilson, 1995.
Sojourning Sisters: The Lives and Letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen. Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 2003.
Barman resume - 3 of 5
Constance Lindsay Skinner: Writing on the Frontier. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.
Edited with Marie Battiste, First Nations Education in Canada: The Circle Unfolds. Vancouver: UBC
Press, 1995.
Edited with Neil Sutherland and Linda Hale, Contemporary Canadian Childhood and Youth: A Bibliography
and History of Canadian Childhood and Youth: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.
With Linda Hale, British Columbia Local Histories: A Bibliography. Victoria: BC Heritage Trust, 1991.
History of British Columbia. Richmond: Open University, 1991, revised 1997, Materials for second-year
university credit course, HIST 225, consisting of course manual, 15 lesson units, chronology, photo
album, map file, additional readings and assignments.
Edited with Yvonne Hébert and Don McCaskill, Indian Education in Canada. Vol l: The Legacy and
vol. 2: The Challenge. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1986 and 1987.
Edited with R.A.J. McDonald, Vancouver Past: Essays in Social History. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1986.
Growing Up British in British Columbia: Boys in Private School. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1984.
Articles and book chapters:
"Indian Residential Schools' Negotiation of Aboriginal Interraciality,"; forthcoming in edited volume in honour
of Jim Miller (University of Toronto Press).
"What a Difference a Border Makes: Putting Perspective on Blacks' Experiences in Early British Columbia and
Western Canada,"; under consideration for publication.
"Beyond Chinatown: Chinese Men and Indigenous Women in Early British Columbia,"; BC Studies: The British
Columbian Quarterly 117 (Spring 2013): 39-64.
With Mike Evans, Gabrielle Legault and Erin Dolmage. "Métis Networks in British Columbia: Examples from
the Central Interior," 331-67 in Contours of a People: Metis Family, Mobility, and History, ed. Nicole
St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012).
"Preface,"; Larry Wong, Dim Sum Stories: A Chinatown Childhood (Vancouver: Chinese Canadian Historical
Society of British Columbia, 2011).
"Sophie Morigeau: Free Trader, Free Woman,"; 175-95 in Sarah Carter and Patricia McCormack, ed.,
Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands (Athabasca:
Athabasca University Press, 2011).
"Race, Greed, and Something More: The Erasure of Urban Indigenous Space in Early Twentieth-Century
British Columbia,"; in Tracey Banivauna-Mar and Penelope Edmonds, ed., Making Space: Settler-Colonial Perspectives on Land, Place and Identity. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 155-73.
"Indigenous Women and Feminism on the Cusp of Contact,"; 92-108 in Cheryl Suzack, Jeanne Perreault, Shari
Huhndorf, and Jean Barman, ed., Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture.
Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010.
"Taking Local History Seriously,"; BC Studies 165 (Spring 2010): 101-06.
With Mike Evans, "Reflections on Being, and Becoming, Métis in British Columbia,"; BC Studies: The British
Columbian Quarterly 161 (Spring 2009), 59-91.
"Cascadia Once Upon A Time,"; 89-114 in Douglas Todd, ed., Cascadia, The Elusive Utopia: Exploring the
Spirit of the People of the Pacific Northwest (Vancouver: Ronsdale, 2008).
"British Columbia in Jane Austen's Time."; Persuasions (journal of the Jane Austen society) 29 (2007):
39-53.
"Writing Women into the History of the North American Wests, One Woman at a Time,"; 99-127 in Elizabeth
Jameson and Sheila McManus, ed., One Step Over the Line: Toward a History of Women in the North
American Wests. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2008.
"Preface,"; Daphne Sleigh, The Man Who Saved Vancouver: Major James Skitt Matthews (Victoria:
Harbour House, 2008), x-xiii.
"Erasing Indigenous Indigeneity in Vancouver."; BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly 155
(Autumn 2007), 3-30.
"Lost in the Crowd,"; 84-87, and "Alone and Lonely,"; 89-91, in Mark Forsythe and Greg Dickson, The Trail of
1858: British Columbia's Gold Rush Past (Madeira Park: Harbour, 2007)
Barman resume - 4 of 5
"Preface,"; Brandy Liên Worrall, ed, Finding Memories, Tracing Routes: Chinese Canadian Family Stories.
Bilingual Chinese-English edition (Vancouver: Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British
Columbia, 2007), i-xii, and English edition (Vancouver: Chinese Canadian Historical Society, British Columbia, 2006), i-vi.
"Integrating British Columbia - and the Rest of Canada - into Canada's History,"; Canadian Issues: Thèmes
canadiens, Autumn 2006: 37-39.
"At the Edge of Law's Empire: Aboriginal interraciality, citizenship, and the law in British Columbia,";
Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 26, 1 (2006), 3-22.
"A British Columbian View of Regions,"; Acadiensis 35, 2 (Spring 2006), 144-56.
With Jan Hare. "Good Intentions Gone Awry: From protection to incarceration at Emma Crosby's Home for
Girls, 1874-1897,"; 179-98 in Celia Haig-Brown and David Nock, ed., Beyond Good Intentions:
Euro-Canadian and Aboriginal Relations in Colonial Canadas. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006.
"Aboriginal Women on the Streets of Victoria: Engendering transgressive sexuality during the gold
rush,"; 205-27 in Myra Rutherdale and Katie Pickles, ed., Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada's Colonial Past. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005.
"Introduction,"; Constance Lindsay Skinner, Birthright. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2005.
"Jean Barman's 10 BC Adventurers,"; in Mark Forsythe and Greg Dickson, The BC Almanac Book of
Greatest British Columbians (Madeira Park: Harbour, 2005), 79-81.
With J.I. Little, "'An educator of modern views': The (Auto)biography of Margaret Ross, 1862-
1943,"; Historical Studies in Education 17, 2 (Fall 2005): 337-61.
"Lost Nanaimo--taking back our past,"; British Columbia History 38, 3 (2005): 15-22, and Shale 8 (June
2004): 16-26.
"Introduction,"; Douglas Hamilton, Sobering Dilemma: A History of Liquor Prohibition in British Columbia.
Vancouver: Ronsdale, 2004.
"Encounters with Sexuality: The Management of Inappropriate Body Behaviour in Late-Nineteenth
Century British Columbia Schools,"; Historical Studies in Education 16, 1 (Spring 2004): 85-104.
"Biographies in the Teaching of History,"; Canadian Issues, Autumn 2003: 5-10.
"Unpacking English Gentlemen Emigrants' Cultural Baggage: Apple orchards and private schools in British
Columbia's Okanagan Valley,"; British Journal of Canadian Studies 16: 1 (2003): 137-49.
"'Vancouver's First Playwright': Constance Lindsay Skinner and The Birthright,"; BC Studies: The
British Columbian Quarterly 137 (Spring 2003), 47-61.
"Schooled for Inequality: The Education of British Columbia Aboriginal Children," 55-79 in Barman and
Gleason, ed., Children, Teachers and Schools, above. Reprinted in Nancy Janovicek and Joy Parr, ed., Histories of Canadian Children and Youth (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2003); Jack Bumstead and Len Kuffert, ed., Post-Confederation Canada: A Reader (Toronto: Oxford University
Press, 2004); and Sara Burke and Patricia Milewski, ed., Schooling in Transition: Readings in
Canadian History of Education (University of Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012), 255-76.
"Separate and Unequal: Indian and White Girls at All Hallows School, 1884-1920,"; 283-302 in Barman and
Gleason, ed., Children, Teachers and Schools, above
"British Columbia's Pioneer Teachers,"; '171- 90 in Barman and Gleason, ed., Children, Teachers and Schools,
above.
"Reflections on the Role of the School in the Transition to Work in Resource Towns,"; 363-375 in Barman and
Gleason, ed., Children, Teachers and Schools, above.
"Transfer, Imposition or Consent: The Emergence of Educational Structures in Nineteenth-Century British
Columbia,"; 13-35 in Barman and Gleason, ed., Children, Teachers and Schools, above.
"Growing Up British in British Columbia: The Vernon Preparatory School, 1914-1946,"; 303-18 in Barman and
Gleason, ed., Children, Teachers and Schools, above.
"Seeing British Columbia," BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly 131 (Fall 2001), 9-14.
"Island sanctuaries--Early mixed race settlement on Gabriola and nearby coastal islands," Shale 2 (March
2001), 1-13.
"History of BC: Overview," Encyclopedia of British Columbia, ed. Daniel Francis. Madeira Park: Harbour,
2000, 331-42. Also available on KnowBC website.
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"British Columbia Needs No History. Or Does It?" in Mark Forsythe, British Columbia Almanac. Vancouver:
Arsenal Pulp Press, 2000), 168-72.
"Sex and Violence in the BC Archives: Adventures in Historical Detection," British Columbia Historical
News 34, 1 (Winter 2000/2001), 6-12.
With Jan Hare. "Aboriginal Education: Is There a Way Ahead?"; 331-59 in David Long and Olive Dickason,
ed., Visions of the Heart: Canadian Aboriginal Issues. 2nd ed. Toronto: Harcourt Canada, 2000.
"Family Life at Fort Langley,"; British Columbia Historical News 32, 4 (Fall 1999), 16-23.
With Bruce Watson. "Fort Colville's Fur Trade Families and the Dynamics of Aboriginal Racial Intermixture in the Pacific Northwest,"; Pacific Northwest Quarterly 90, 3 (Summer 1999), 140-53.
"What a Difference a Border Makes: Aboriginal Racial Intermixture in the Pacific Northwest,"; Journal of
the West 38,3 (July 1999), 14-20.
"Invisible Women: Aboriginal Mothers and Mixed-Race Daughters in Rural British Columbia,"; 159-79 in
R.W. Sandwell, ed., Beyond the City Limits: Rural History in British Columbia. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1999.
"Vancouver's Forgotten Entrepreneurs: Women Who Ran Their Own Schools,"; British Columbia
Historical News 31, 4 (Fall 1998), 21-29.
"Families vs. Schools: Children of Aboriginal Descent in British Columbia Classrooms of the Late
Nineteenth Century,"; 73-89 in Edgar-Andre Montigny and Lori Chambers, ed., Family Matters: Papers in Post-Confederation Canadian Family History. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 1998.
"Taming Aboriginal Sexuality: Gender, Power, and Race in British Columbia, 1850-1900,"; BC Studies: The
British Columbian Quarterly 115-16 (Fall-Winter 1997-98), 237-66. Reprinted in Mary Ann Irwin
and James F. Brooks, ed., Women and Gender in the American West (Albuquerque: University of
New Mexico Press, 2004), 210-35; J.M. Bumsted and Lent Kuffert, ed., Interpreting Canada's Past: A Post-Confederation Reader, 3rd ed. (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2004); Daniel Francis and Donald Smith, ed., Readings in Canadian History (Unionville ON: Thompson, 2006); Mary-Ellen
Kelm and Lorna Townsend, ed., In the Days of Our Grandmothers: A Reader in Aboriginal Women's
History in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006), 270-300.
"Whatever Happened to the Kanakas?" The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History 77:6 (December 1997/
January 1998), 12-19.
"'I walk my own track in life & no mere male can bump me off it': Constance Lindsay Skinner and the Work
of History,"; 129-63 in Beverly Boutilier and Alison Prentice, ed., Creating Historical Memory:
English-Canadian Women and the Work of History. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1997.
"Lost Okanagan: In Search of the First Settler Families,"; Okanagan History 60 (1996), 8-20.
"Aboriginal Education at the Crossroads: The Legacy of Residential Schools and the Way Ahead," 271-303 in
David Alan Long and Olive Patricia Dickason, ed., Visions of the Heart: Canadian Aboriginal Issues. Toronto: Harcourt, Brace, 1996. Reprinted in J.M. Bumsted and Lent Kuffert, ed., Interpreting Canada's Past: A Post-Confederation Reader, 3rd ed. (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2004).
"New Land, New Lives: Hawaiian Settlement in British Columbia," Hawaiian Journal of History 29 (1996),
1-32.
"Neighbourhood and Community in Interwar Vancouver: Residential Differentiation and Civic Voting
Behaviour," 97-141 in McDonald and Barman, ed., Vancouver Past above.
Earlier articles and book chapters available on request.
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