Faculty Profile
- Noel, Jan, Ph.D. Toronto
- Associate Professor, UTM
- jan.noel@utoronto.ca
- (905) 828-4492
- Office: UTM N151 & SS 2062
Field: Early Canada, comparative colonial history, gender history
Professor Noel’s interests include Early Canada as well as comparative colonial and gender history. Her latest book is Along a River: The First French Canadian Women (UTP 2013). Noel is author of some thirty-five refereed articles, chapters and books, including the much-reprinted “New France: Les Femmes Favorisees.” She received the New York History Society’s 2014 Kerr prize for her work on aboriginal women in the fur trade. Her earlier work, Canada Dry: Temperance Crusades before Confederation, received the Canadian Historical Association’s Macdonald Prize. Professor Noel is a past coordinator of Gender Studies at her UTM Department and current coordinator of its Heads Up Writing Program.