Associate Professor
Department of History
University of Guelph
50 Stone Rd. E.
Guelph, ON N1G 2W1
Canada
Ph.D.: University of California, Berkeley, 2003
M.A.: Simon Fraser University, 1999
B.A.: Simon Fraser University, 1997
Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare, Affiliated Faculty, 2007-
University of Guelph, Department of History, 2004-
Simon Fraser University, Department of History, Visiting Assistant Professor, 2003-2004
Live Performance and Communication
American Entertainment and Information Industries
Animal History
Tourism History
America in the World
Susan's most recent articles, research in progress and upcoming speaking dates are posted at www.susannance.com
Visit the Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare:
http://www.uoguelph.ca/ccsaw/
Areas of Research for Graduate Supervision
American Entertainment and Information Industries
Animal History
Tourism History
Books
Entertaining Elephants: Animal Agency and Business Demands in the American Circus (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming 2012).
The Moorish Science Temple of America: Spirituality and Equality in Interwar America (Vancouver: The George Press, forthcoming 2012).
How the Arabian Nights Inspired the American Dream, 1790-1935 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009).
Articles and Book Chapters
"Fame, But No Fortune: Elephants and the American Circus," in The History of the Circus in America, edited by Kenneth Ames and Matthew Wittman (New York: Yale University Press/Bard Graduate Center, forthcoming 2012).
"Jumbo as Marketing Trope: A Capitalist Creation Story," Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, forthcoming 2012 issue on Animals in Advertising.
"Dumbo: Then and Now." In Media Res. October 8, 2010. available online at: In Media Res
“The Ottoman Empire and the American Flag: Patriotic Travel before the Age of Package Tours, 1830-1870,” Journal of Tourism History 1, no. 1 (March 2009): 7-26.
“The Veiled Prophet’s Oriental Tale: St. Louis’ Famous Carnivals in Context, 1878-1895,” Missouri Historical Review 103, no. 2 (January 2009): 90-107.
“Becoming Bodacious: Aufstieg und Fall eines Rodeobullen [Becoming Bodacious: The Rise and Fall of a Rodeo Bull]” in Ich, das Tier, edited by Jessica Ullrich, Friedrich Weltzien und Heike Fuhlbrügge (Berlin: Reimer Verlag, 2008), 235-48.
“A Facilitated Access Model and Ottoman Tourism,” Annals of Tourism Research 34, no. 4 (October 2007): 1056-77.
"Respectability and Representation: The Moorish Science Temple, Morocco and Black Public Culture in 1920s Chicago," American Quarterly 54, no. 4 (December 2002): 623-659.
"Mystery of The Moorish Science Temple: Southern Blacks and American Alternative Spirituality in 1920s Chicago," Religion and American Culture 12, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 123-166.
