Dr. Adele Perry (she/her) is a distinguished professor of history and women’s and gender studies. She is a historian of colonialism and gender, especially in western Canada in the 19th and 20th centuries, Perry held a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a past president of the Canadian Historical Association. Perry has been director of the CHRR since 2020, and is committed to decolonizing and feminist research, and to researching and communicating beyond the university.
Publications/Papers
Perry, Adele. 2021. “Whiteness and BC History in the Age of COVID-19.” BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, no. 210 (July): 11–20.,
McCallum, Mary Jane Logan, and Adele Perry. 2018. Structures of Indifference: An Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City. Univ. of Manitoba Press.,
Perry, Adele. 2016. Aqueduct: Colonialism, Resources, and the Histories We Remember. Semaphore Series. Winnipeg: ARP Books.
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