Joy Parr

Joy Parr (* 1949 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian historian .

Life

Joy Parr studied at McGill University in Montreal , where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1971 . She then continued her studies at Yale University in New Haven , Connecticut , where she received a Master of Philosophy in 1973 and a Ph.D. in 1977. Parr has now worked at Yale University, the University of British Columbia and Queen's University in Kingston , Ontario. At the latter, she taught at the Department of History from 1982 to 1992 and was appointed professor in 1988 . From 1992 to 2003 she was Nancy and Jack Farley Professor of History at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby , British Columbia . She currently holds a Canada Research Chair in the Department of Geography at the University of Western Ontario .

Parr was a 1992 Bunting Fellow at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College . From 1995 to 2001 she was a Fellow of the Green College of the University of British Columbia. In 1997 she was a Creighton Lecturer at the University of Toronto . From 1996 to 1997 she was a visiting fellow at All Souls College of the University of Oxford . In 1998 she was an Underhill Lecturer in the Department of History at Carleton University . In 1998 she was a Bronfman Lecturer at the Institute of Canadian Studies at the University of Ottawa . In 2007 she held the Henrietta Harvey Distinguished Lectureship at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador . In 2010 she was a lecturer at the European Society for Environmental History Field School .

Parr has received numerous awards for her research. In 1987 she received the Hilda Neatby Prize of the Canadian Historical Association for the article The Skilled Emigrant and her Kin: Gender, Culture and Labor Recruitment , published in the Canadian Historical Review . In 1995, another Parr article was awarded the Hilda Neatby Prize . She also received the Canadian Historical Review Prize from the University of Toronto Press in 1987 . In 1988 she received the Riddell Award from the Ontario Historical Society and the Berkshire Prize . Her book The Gender of Breadwinners: Women, Men, and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1880-1950. In 1990, was awarded the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize of the Canadian Historical Association, and the Fred Landon Award of the Ontario Historical Society and Laura Jamieson Award of the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women . In addition, Parr received the François-Xavier Garneau Medal from the Canadian Historical Association in 1995 for this book . Her 1998 article in Technology and Culture , What Makes Washday Less Blue? Gender, Choice, Nation, and Technology Choice in Postwar Canada received the Abbot Payson Usher Prize from the Society for the History of Technology in 1999 . Her book Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments and the Everyday won the Canada Prize of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences in the social sciences category in 2010, the Sidney Edelstein Prize in 2011 and the Leonardo da Vinci Medal of the Society for the History of Technology in 2018 .

In 1992 she became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada . The University of Windsor awarded her an honorary doctorate in 1997 . In 2000 she received the JB Tyrrell Historical Medal from the Royal Society of Canada. The University of Western Ontario awarded her the 2006 Hellmuth Prize for Achievement in Research .

Publications (selection)

• Laboring Children: British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada. (1980, University of Toronto Press)
• Childhood and Family in Canadian History. (1982, Oxford University Press )
• with Beth Light (Ed.): Canadian Women on the Move 1867-1920. (1983, Hogtown Press & Ontario Institute for Studies in Education)
• (Ed.): Still Running: Personal stories by Queen's women celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Marty Scholarship. (1987, Queen's University Press)
• The Gender of Breadwinners: Women, Men, and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1880-1950. (1990, University of Toronto Press)
• (Ed.): A Diversity of Women: Ontario 1945-80. (1995, University of Toronto Press)
• with Mark Rosenfeld: Gender and History in Canada. (1996, Copp Clark Publishing)
• Domestic Goods: the Material, the Moral and the Economic in the Postwar Years. (1999, University of Toronto Press)
• with Nancy Janovicek (Ed.): Histories of Canadian Children and Youth. (2003, Oxford University Press)
• Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments and the Everyday. (2010, UBC Press)

Web links

• Official website
• Literature by and about Joy Parr in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

1. ^ The François-Xavier Garneau Medal , website of the Canadian Historical Association
2. ↑ Abbot Payson Usher Prize ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Society for the History of Technology website  
3. ^ Former Canada Prize winners , Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences website
4. ↑ Sidney Edelstein Prize ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Society for the History of Technology website  
5. ↑ Laureate of the Royal Society of Canada ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Royal Society of Canada