Dr. Jenny Ellison
W.P. Bell Post-doctoral Fellow Canadian Studies
Mount Allison University
63D York Street
Sackville, NB
E4L 1G9

jellison@mta.ca
506-364-2277


Hons BA, History, University of Toronto
MA, Canadian Studies, Carleton University
PhD, History, York University

Teaching Areas
Canadian Culture
Contemporary Issues
Multiculturalism
Gender 

Research Interests
My academic research considers how concepts of health and well-being are mobilized in social and cultural settings. I am particularly interested in the way people talk about and understand their bodies, and the relationship between health discourses/practices and the historical context in which they are undertaken.

Selected Publications
"Let Me Hear Your Body Talk: Aerobics for Fat Women Only, 1981-1985." In Gender, Health and Popular Culture: Historical Perspectives. Ed. Cheryl Krasnick Warsh, 205-226. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2011.

"Not Jane Fonda: Aerobics for Fat Women Only." In The Fat Studies Reader. Eds. Sondra Solovay and Esther Rothblum, 312-19. New York: New York University Press, 2009."

'Stop Postponing Your Life Until You Lose Weight and Start Living Now': Vancouver's Large as Life Action Group, 1979-1985." Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 18, no. 1 (2007): 241-65.

"Model Athletes: Images of Women in Sport in Canada, 1950-2006." In Canadian Woman Studies: An Introductory Reader (2nd Edition). Eds. Andrea Medovarski and Brenda Cranney, 478-488. Toronto: Inanna, 2006.

Awards
Nominee, Part-time Teaching Excellence Award, Trent University, 2011
Symons Trust Fund for Canadian Studies, Trent University, 2011
SSHRC Doctoral Fellow, 2004-2007
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2001, 2003, 2004

Website
www.jennyellison.com

Click here for the Centre for Canadian Studies. Click here for the Canadian Studies Network. Canadian Studies Network