- Professor of History, University of Regina
Donica Belisle is a cultural historian of Canadian business. She is the author of the books, Purchasing Power: Women and the Rise of Canadian Consumer Culture (University of Toronto Press 2020) and Retail Nation: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Canada (UBC Press 2011). She is currently writing two books: one about the rise of sugar in the Canadian diet, and one about a Canadian owned sugar plantation in Fiji.
Experience
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2015–2023Professor, University of Regina
Education
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2007Trent University, PhD Canadian Studies
Publications
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2020Eating Clean: Anti-Chinese Sugar Advertising and the Making of White Racial Purity in the Canadian Pacific, Global Food History
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2020Global Food History, Eating Clean: Anti-Chinese Advertising and the Making of White Racial Purity in the Canadian Pacific
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2020Purchasing Power: Women and the Rise of Canadian Consumer Culture, University of Toronto Press
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2018Canadian Historical Review, Mary Quayle Innis: Faculty Wives' Contributions and the Making of Academic Celebrity
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2014histoire sociale/Social History, Conservative Consumerism: Consumer Advocacy in Woman’s Century Magazine During and After World War I
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2013Consuming Modernity: Changing Gendered Behaviours and Consumerism, 1919-1945, Guilty Pleasures: Consumer Culture in the Fiction of Mary Quayle Innis
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2012Writing Feminist History: Productive Pasts and New Directions, Sexual Spectacles: Women in Canadian Department Store Magazines Between 1920 and 1950
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2011Canadian Historical Review , Crazy For Bargains: Inventing the Irrational Female Shopper in Modernizing English Canada
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2011Retail Nation: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Canada, Vancouver: UBC Press
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- Location: Regina, Canada
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