Participant Info
- First Name
- Janis
- Last Name
- Thiessen
- Country
- Canada
- State
- Ja.thiessen@uwinnipeg.ca
- Affiliation
- University of Winnipeg
- Website URL
- https://www.uwinnipeg.ca
- Keywords
- labour history, business history, food history, oral history, Mennonite history
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Professor of History, University of Winnipeg
B.Sc., B.Ed., M.A., Ph.D.
- Recent Publications
Much of my current research in Manitoba food history is featured at manitobafoodhistory.ca, where you’ll find the Food History Truck, upcoming events, and “The Pantry” (which holds Story Maps and the project’s podcast series, Preserves).
I am the author of four books:
Necessary Idealism: A History of Westgate Mennonite Collegiate, published by Canadian Mennonite University Press.
Snacks: A Canadian Food History, published by University of Manitoba Press.
Not Talking Union: An Oral History of North American Mennonites and Labour, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Manufacturing Mennonites: Work and Religion in Post-War Manitoba (part of the Canadian Social History Series), published by University of Toronto Press.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @JanisThiessen
- Country Focus
- Canada
- Expertise by Geography
- North America
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Food History, Labor, Local & Regional, Pedagogy, Public History, Religion, Urban History
