Publications and Research Dissemination:

Refereed Journal Articles

1. Mrazek, Courtney. “‘More a Matter for Medical Men’: The King’s Road Reserve Relocation and Public Health in Early 20th-Century Sydney, Nova Scotia.” Canadian Journal of Health History 40, no.1 (April 2023): 1-32.

2. Mrazek, Courtney and John G. Reid. “A Coffee with John Reid.” Acadiensis 50, no. 2 (Autumn 2021): 145-154.

3. Mrazek, Courtney. “‘after planting their few potatoes they wander about the Island’: The Mi’kmaq and British Agricultural Policies in Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia.” Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society Journal, 20 (2017): 18-36.

Refereed Book Reviews

1. Mrazek, Courtney. Review of In the Public Good: Eugenics and Law in Ontario by C. Elizabeth Koester. H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews, January 2023. https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57998

2. Mrazek, Courtney. Review of Challenging Choices: Canada’s Population Control in the 1970s, by Erika Dyck and Maureen Lux. Canadian Journal of Health History 39, no. 1 (2022): 226-229.

3. Mrazek, Courtney. Review of Be Wise! Be Healthy! Morality and Citizenship in Canadian Public Health Campaigns, by Catherine Carstairs, Bethany Philpott, and Sara Wilmshurst. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 36, no. 2 (Fall/automne 2019): 489-491.

4. Mrazek, Courtney. Review of Talking Back to the Indian Act: Critical Readings in Settler Colonial Histories, by Mary-Ellen Kelm and Keith D. Smith. American Review of Canadian Studies 49, no. 2 (June 2019): 368-370.

5. Mrazek, Courtney. Review of Living Treaties: Narrating Mi’kmaw Treaty Relations, by Marie Battiste. American Review of Canadian Studies 48, no. 2 (June 2018):268-269.

Published Conference Proceedings

1. Mrazek, Courtney. “‘Our Nation is like a Withering Leaf on a Summer’s Day’: The Mi’kmaq and Agricultural Practices in Colonial Nova Scotia.” In Proceedings of the Student Empowerment Conference: Culture and the Everyday. Halifax: Saint Mary’s University, 2016.

Conference Papers

1. “An Unlikely Alliance: The Newfoundland and Labrador Women’s Institutes, The Newfoundland Status of Women Council, and the Women’s Health Education Project,” forthcoming paper presentation at the joint 2023 Canadian Society for the History of Medicine and Canadian Association for the History of Nursing conference at York University, 27-29 May 2023.

2. An Unlikely Alliance: The Newfoundland and Labrador Women’s Institutes, The Newfoundland Status of Women Council, and the Women’s Health Education Project,” paper presentation at the Gender and Health in Mi’kma’ki/Acadia/Atlantic Canada Workshop at Saint Mary’s University, 25 March 2023.

3. “‘Down with the Causeway!’: The Canso Causeway’s Impact on the Cape Breton Strait Area,” paper presentation at the 2022 Canadian Science and Technology Historical Association Emerging Scholars Writing Workshop, at the Canada Agriculture and Farm Museum, Ottawa, ON, 4-6 November 2022.

4. “Networks of Women Helping Women: The Women’s Health Education Project and Workshops in Newfoundland and Labrador in the 1980s,” Co-paper presentation with Dr. Leslie Digdon at the 2022 Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, “Histories from the Margins: Innovation and Adaption in Atlantic Canada” at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, 25-28 May 2022.

5. “The Nova Scotia Sanatorium: Mi’kmaw Health in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia,” Paper presentation at the 2022 Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, “Histories from the Margins: Innovation and Adaptation in Atlantic Canada” University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, 25-28 May 2022.

6. “The Nova Scotia Sanatorium: Patient Demographics,” Virtual Paper presentation at the hybrid 2021 History of Science Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 18-21 November 2021.

7. “‘the most economical terms’: The Mi’kmaq and Health Care in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia,” Paper presentation at the 2021 Canadian Science and Technology Historical Association biennial virtual Zoom conference, “Science, Technology, and History in Times of Crisis,” 5-6 November 2021.

8. “‘the usual clinics’: Eugenic and Euthenic Economies, the Mi’kmaq, and the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia,” Paper presentation at the 2021 Legacies of Eugenics in Canada virtual workshop, 15 June 2021.

9. “‘more a matter for Medical men’: The Mi’kmaq and the King’s Road Reserve Removal in Sydney, Nova Scotia,” Paper presentation at the joint 2021 Canadian Society for the History of Medicine and Canadian Association for the History of Nursing virtual conference, 1-2 June 2021.

10. “Shubenacadie Indian Residential School: Biomedical Experimentation on the Mi’kmaq in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia,” Paper presentation at the 2020 Congress Conference, for the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, at Western University, Ontario, 30 May-1 June 2020 (Conference cancelled due to COVID-19 Pandemic.)

11. Nova Scotia Sanatorium: Mi’kmaw Health in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia,” Paper presentation at the Atlantic Canada Studies 2020 Conference Crossing Borders, Bridging Boundaries at the University of Maine, Belfast, Maine, USA, 14-16 May 2020 (Conference cancelled due to COVID-19 Pandemic.)

12. “Annual Reports, Eugenic Economics, and Tuberculosis in Nova Scotia: Mi’kmaw Health in the Twentieth Century,” Presented at the Annual Social Science History Association Conference, held at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, USA, 21-24 November 2019.

13. “North America, 1600-1800, An Ecology of Competing Systems of Knowledge,” Presented at the 19th Annual University of Maine and University of New Brunswick History Graduate Student Conference, “New Voices in History,” held at the University of Maine, 21-23 September 2018.

14. “‘after planting their few potatoes they wander about the Island’: The Mi’kmaq and British Agricultural Policies in Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia,” Invited Lecture for the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society Public Lecture Series, Archives of Nova Scotia, 15 February 2017.

15. “Joseph Howe’s 1842 ‘An Act to Provide for the Instruction and Permanent Settlement of the Indians”: The Rise and Fall of Agricultural Policies in Colonial Nova Scotia,” Presented at the Annual New Frontiers Conference held at York University, 23-25 February 2017.

16. “The Canso Causeway: Social, Economic, and Medical Implications in the Twentieth Century,” Presented at the 17th Annual University of Maine and University of New Brunswick History Graduate Student Conference, “Time, Space, and Place,” held at the University of Maine, 28-29 October 2016.

17. “The Canso Causeway: Doom, Gloom, and Boon in the Strait Area During the Twentieth Century,” Presented at the 21st Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, “Dimensions of Difference: Patterns and Politics” held at Mount Allison University, 5-7 May 2016.

18. “The Canso Causeway, Tourism, and Socioeconomics,” Invited Guest Lecture on Undergrad Thesis Research in Post-Confederation Maritime History class, Mount Saint Vincent University, 14 March 2016.

19. “‘Our Nation is like a Withering Leaf on a Summer’s Day’: The Mi’kmaq and Agricultural Practices in Colonial Nova Scotia,” Presented at the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Culture: Culture and the Everyday Conference, held at Saint Mary’s University, 26 February 2016.

20. “‘Our Nation is like a Withering Leaf on a Summer’s Day’: The Mi’kmaq and Agricultural Practices in Colonial Nova Scotia,” Presented at the New Frontiers Graduate History Conference, held at York University, 18-20 February 2016.

21. “Aboriginal Women and Government Institutions: Regulation and Discipline of Sexuality,” Presented at the Annual University Undergraduate and Classics Conference, held at Mount Allison University, 6-7 March 2015.

22. “The Philosophical River: Anarchism Explored as a Fluid Ideology,” Presented at the Annual University Undergraduate and Classics Conference, held at the University of Prince Edward Island, 7-9 March 2014.

Invited Lectures

1. “Experiences and Contributions of an Emerging Scholar.” Invited Guest Lecture for HIST 4500/6650 Honours Seminar and Advanced Historiography, Saint Mary’s University, 15 March 2023.

2. Mount Saint Vincent University History Department invited talk, “Housewives, Breadwinners, and Students: Patient Trends at the Nova Scotia Sanatorium, 1904-1969,” 8 March 2023.

3. Stokes Seminar invited paper presentation, “Housewives, Breadwinners, and Students: Gendered Elements of the War on Tuberculosis at the Nova Scotia Sanatorium, 1904-1969,” Department of History, Dalhousie University, 17 February 2023.

4. “‘after planting their few potatoes they wander about the Island’: The Mi’kmaq and British Agricultural Policies in Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia.” Invited Lecture for the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society Public Lecture Series, Archives of Nova Scotia, 15 February 2017.

5. “The Canso Causeway, Tourism, and Socioeconomics.” Invited Guest Lecture on Undergrad Thesis Research in Post-Confederation Maritime History class, Mount Saint Vincent University, 14 March 2016.