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Graduate Program in History

Patricia Wood

Degrees:  Ph.D., 1995 Duke University (History)
M.A., 1991 Queen's University (History)
B.A., Honours 1990 Queen's University (History)
 
Current Position:  Associate Professor (Department of Geography)
 
Recent Publications: Wood, P.K. "Pressured from All Sides: The February 1913 Surrender of the Northeast Corner of the Tsuu T^ina Nation" The Journal of Historical Geography (forthcoming)

Wood, P.K. Nationalism from the Margins: Italians in Alberta and British Columbia (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen^s University Press, 2002)

Wood, P.K. "Borders and Identities among Italian Immigrants in the Pacific Northwest, 1880-1938", in J. Findlay and K. Coates, eds. Parallel Destinies: Canadians, Americans and the Western Border (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002)

Wood, P.K. "Defining 'Canadian': Anti-Americanism and Identity in Sir John A. Macdonald^s Nationalism" Journal of Canadian Studies, 36:2, 49-69 (Summer 2001)

Wood, P.K. "The Historic Site as a Cultural Text: A Geography of Heritage in Calgary, Alberta" Material History Review 52 (Fall): 33-43, 2000

Isin, E.F. and P.K. Wood. Citizenship and Identity (London: Sage Press, 1999)
 
Courses taught recently: GEOG 5107 & 5108 Citizenship, Identity and Space I & II
 
Research Interests: Identity and attachment to place, particularly nationalism; citizenship; ethnicity and immigration; gender and sexuality; urban history; heritage and historic sites; Native/non-Native relations; Western Canada
 
Awards/Grants: 2002-2005: SSHRC Major Research Grant
Relationship between Calgary and the Tsuu T'ina Nation

2002-2003: SSHRC Small Grant
Immigrants in Calgary: Landscapes of Diversity

2001-2002: Visiting Research Fellow, Calgary Institute for the Humanities