Associate Professor
B.A. (McGill); M.A., Ph.D. (York).
705-748-1011 x 7834
janetmiron@trentu.ca
Research interests:
The history of suicide in Canada; Indigenous-Settler relations; medical and criminal history; asylums and prisons.
Current research project:
A history of suicide in Canada from the late eighteenth century to the twentieth century.
Indigenous history, identities and community in the Sault Ste. Marie region/Bawating in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The reliance of the Geological Survey of Canada on Indigenous Knowledge and skill is a particular focus of this study.
Select publications:
- "The Eagle Said, “I will Take You Home Again”: Reclaiming Indigenous Histories from the Geological Survey of Canada, c. 1870–1910," Histoire sociale/Social History, vol. 56, no. 115 (June, 2023): 93-122.
- “Destabilizing Canada,” special theme issue for the Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'études canadiennes, co-edited with Margaret Steffler, vol. 51, no. 1 (2017)
- “Suicide, Coroner’s Inquests, and the Parameters of Compassion in Ontario, 1830-1900,” Histoire sociale/Social History, (November, 2014): 577-599.
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Prisons, Asylums, and the Public: Institutional Visiting in the Nineteenth Century (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011)
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A History of Human Rights in Canada: Essential Issues (Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc., 2009).
- “’In View of the Knowledge to be Acquired’: Public Visits to New York’s Asylums in the Nineteenth Century,” in Permeable Walls: Historical Perspectives on Hospital and Asylum Visiting, edited by Graham Mooney and Jonathan Reinarz (New York: Editions Rodopi B.V., 2009): 243-266.
- “Recent Approaches to the History of Psychoactive Substances and Social Regulation in Canada,” Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'études canadiennes. Volume 42, Number 3 (Fall 2008): 227-233.
- “’Open to the Public’: Touring Ontario Asylums in the Nineteenth Century,” in Mental Health and Canadian Society: Historical Perspectives, edited by James E. Moran and David Wright (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006): 19-48.
Recent book reviews in:
Isis and the history of the Behavioral Sciences