Heather Green

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Assistant Professor

B.A. Honours (Cape Breton University)
M.A. (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Ph.D. (University of Alberta)

McNally North 229
P: 902-420-5769
E:  heather.green@smu.ca
Twitter: @heathergreen21
Website: http://heathergreen.strikingly.com/

Dr. Heather Green specializes in environmental history and histories of Indigenous-setter relations, particularly interested in histories of mining, resource extraction, energy production, and tourism. While her work primarily focuses on the Canadian North, she has also researched mining, energy production, and Indigenous activism in the American Southwest. Prior to coming to Saint Mary’s, Heather held a postdoctoral fellowship with the Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University and a Fulbright Canada Research Scholar fellowship with the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona. Heather is an editor and executive member of the Network in Canadian History and Environment.

Heather teaches Canadian history, environmental history, and Indigenous history. 


Selected Publications: 

Green, H and M. Papai. “Advertising for Beer: Local Identity and the Klondike Brewery, 1900–1920.” The Northern Review 49 (2020): 133–165. 

Piper, L. and H. Green. “A Province Powered by Coal: The Renaissance of Coal Mining in Late-Twentieth Century Alberta.” Canadian Historical Review 98, 3 (Sept 2017): 532-567.  

Green, H. “The Rise of Motherhood: Maternal Feminism and Health in the Rural Prairie Provinces, 1900-1930.” Past Imperfect 20 (2017).  

Green, H. “There is no memory of it here”: Closure and Memory of the Polaris Mine in Resolute Bay, 1973-2012.” Mining and Communities in Northern Canada: History, Politics and Memory. Eds. J. Sandlos and A. Keeling Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2015. 294-314.  

Green, H. “State, Company and Community Relations at the Polaris Mine (Nunavut) /L'État, l’enterprise, et la communauté relations à la mine Polaris (Nunavut).” Études/Inuit/Studies 37,2 (Dec. 2013): 37-57.


Selected Grants and Awards:

SSHRC Insight Grant, Mining, Clearing, and Reclaiming the Rocky Mountains and Foothills, 1947-2018, collaborator (principle investigator: Dr. Liza Piper, University of Alberta) (2019-2023)  

Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Scholar, University of Arizona (2018-2019)

L.R. Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship, Wilson Institute for Canadian History (2018-2020) 

Queen Elizabeth II Award, University of Alberta (2017) 

Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship (2015) 

Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral Award, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2014-2017) 

Queen Elizabeth II Award, University of Alberta (2012) 

Pickersgill Fellowship, Provincial Government of Newfoundland (2012) 

Joseph A. Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s Award, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2011-2012)