Participant Info

First Name
Suzanna
Last Name
Wagner
Affiliation
Independent Historian
Website URL
https://ualberta.academia.edu/SuzannaWagner
Keywords
Nursing history, history of public health, history of epidemics, public history, military nursing sister, 1918 Influenza pandemic, Alberta, Canada
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About Me

Suzanna is a Canadian health historian focusing on 1890- 1930. Her current research projects are the use of gendered labour during the 1918 influenza pandemic and First World War Canadian military nursing sisters serving in Greece and Egypt.  She is especially interested in the diversity of the Great War’s Eastern theatre where climate and active fighting impacted the availability of supplies, medical treatment and living conditions to different degrees in Greece and in Egypt. She has a broad interest in the histories of health, nursing, material culture, and public history and has spent many years working in public history at a number of museums and historic sites in Alberta.

Recent Publications

Wagner, Suzanna. “Households Large and Small: Healthcare Civilians and the Prominence of Women’s Work in the Edmonton Bulletin’s Reporting of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic.” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 32, no. 2 (2022): 1-43.

Wagner, Suzanna C. “Many Places, Many Problems: Canadian First World War Military Nursing Sisters in the Mediterranean.” (2020).

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Canada
Expertise by Geography
North America, Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
Modern, 20th century
Expertise by Topic
Gender, Material Culture, Museums, Public History, Religion, Women, World War I