Jennifer
Bonnell
Position / Title: 

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Phone: 
(519) 824-4120 ex. 52871
Room: 
1002 MacKinnon Ext.
Education: 

Ph.D.: University of Toronto, 2010
M.A.: University of Victoria, 1999
B.A.-Honours: University of Victoria, 1995

 

Research: 

    Environmental History
    Canadian History, 20th Century
    History of the Great Lakes Region
    Urban and Suburban History
    Public Memory and Museums
    Historical GIS
    Digital Humanities

     

Publications: 

    “An Intimate Understanding of Place: Charles Sauriol and Toronto’s Don River Valley, 1927-1989.” Canadian Historical Review (forthcoming, December 2011).

    “A Social History of a Changing Environment: The Don River Valley, 1910-1931.” In Gene Desfor and Jennefer Laidley, eds. Reshaping Toronto’s Waterfront. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011.

    with Gene Desfor. “Socio-ecological Change in the Nineteenth and Twenty-first Centuries: The Lower Don River." In Gene Desfor and Jennefer Laidley, eds. Reshaping Toronto’s Waterfront. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011.

    “Bringing Back the Don River: Sixty Years of Community Action.” In Wayne Reeves and Christina Palassio, eds. HtO: Toronto's Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers to Low-Flow Toilets. Toronto: Coach House Press, 2008.

    “A Comforting Past: Skirting Conflict and Complexity at Montgomery’s Inn.” Journal of Canadian Studies 42.1 (Winter 2008): 127-153.

    with Roger Simon. “Difficult Exhibitions and Intimate Encounters” Museum and Society 5.2 (July 2007): 65-85. available online