Participant Info
- First Name
- Joanna
- Last Name
- Rickert-Hall
- Country
- Canada
- State
- joanna.rickerthall@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Public Scholar
- Website URL
- http://logschoolhouse.blogspot.com/
- Keywords
- Social history, public history, witchcraft, occult healing,folk medicine, Braucherei, folklore, folk beliefs, Pennsylvania German diaspora in Waterloo County, gender, marginalization, early Waterloo County settlement history
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Always engaged in the unending search for arcane and overlooked histories — particularly those that involve folk medicine, magic, and early community relationships in Canada. Teller of tales that need telling. History truth sleuth. Proud recipient of the Jean Steckle Award for Excellence in Heritage Education (2015).
- Recent Publications
Rickert-Hall, Joanna, Waterloo You Never Knew: Life on the Margins, Dundurn Press: Toronto, 2018.
- Media Coverage
- https://www.dundurn.com/authors/Joanna-Rickert-Hall
- Social Media
- @jrickerthall
- Country Focus
- Canada
- Expertise by Geography
- British Isles, Germany, North America, Scandinavia, United Kingdom, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- 18th century, 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Children & Youth, Disability, Family, Gender, Human Rights, Local & Regional, Material Culture, Medicine, Migration & Immigration, Museums, Politics, Public History, Race, Religion, Rural & Agrarian History, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Urban History, Women
