Newell, Dianne -

Personal Information
First Name: 
Dianne
Last Name: 
Newell
Department / Program: 
OTHER
Other: 
History
University Affiliation: 
University of British Columbia
Phone: 
+1 (604) 822 5195
Email Address: 
Area of Research
Subject: 
Technology
Geographical Region: 
Canada
Global
Time Period: 
19th and 20th Century
Current
Specific Area of Research: 
Industrial technology change/persistence; science fiction as critique; history of science (anthropology) on Canada's Pacific coast
Academics
PHD Program: 
History
PHD University: 
University of Western Ontario
PHD Date: 
1981
Major Publications: 
MARINE FISHERIES; ABORIGINAL WOMEN AND INDUSTRIAL WORK; POSTWAR WOMEN :*Technology on the Frontier: Mining in Old Ontario* (UBC P, 1986): Tangled Webs of History: Indians and the Law in Canada's Pacific Fisheries (UTP, 1993)*FISHING PLACES, FISHING PEOPLE: TRADITIONS AND ISSUES IN CANADA Newell, D., Tangled Webs of History: Indians and the Law in Canada’s Pacific Coast Fisheries, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1993, 306 pp. Reprinted 1997. (CHA Clio Award; Cdn. Nautical Research Soc., Keith Matthew Prize Newell, D., and R.E. Ommer, eds., Fishing Places, Fishing People: Traditions and Issues in Canadian Small-Scale Fisheries, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1999, 374 pages. Dianne Newell (with Dorothee Schreiber), “Why Spend a Lot of Time Dwelling on the Past?: Understanding Resistance to Contemporary Salmon Farming in Kwakwaka’wakw Territory.” In Arif Dirlik, ed., Pedagogies of the Global: Knowledge in the Human Interest (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2006), chapter 11.
Membership in Academic Societies: 
Science Fiction Research Association, Canadian Historical Association
Courses Taught: 
Canadian Social History; Introduction to Technology & Society; Gender & Technology; From Autobiography and Biography to Auto/bio and Life Writing; Canada, 1896-1945: Boom, Bust and Echo