Dr. Katrina Srigley
Areas of Specialization:
Modern Canadian History
Women’s and Gender History
Indigenous and Decolonized Methodologies
Oral History Methodologies
Research Interests:
Anishinaabeg historiesStorytelling, story listening, and memory making
Current & Future Research:
Gaa Bi Kidwaad Maa Nbisiing: A-Kii Bemaadzijik, E-Niigannwang: The Stories of Nbisiing: the Land, the People, the Future (SSHRC 2017-2022)
Nbisiing Anishinabek Biimadiziwin: to understand the past and shape the future, in partnership with Nipissing First Nation (SSHRC 2013-2016).Selected Academic Funding:
2017-2022 SSHRC Insight Grant, Applicant ($157, 420)
2017-2022 CIHR Ontario Indigenous Mentorship Network Grant, Co-applicant ($1,000,000)
2017-18 CIHR Catalyst Grant: Indigenous Approaches to Wellness Research, Co-applicant ($143, 286)
2016-2017 SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, Co-applicant ($192, 454)
2016 Internal Research Grant, Nipissing University, Applicant ($5000)
2013-2016 SSHRC Insight Development Grant, Applicant ($60,000)
2012 SSHRC Standard Research Grant, A4 Rating
2010 SSHRC Community University Research Alliance, Co-applicant ($1,000,000)
Books
Srigley, Katrina (2010). Breadwinning Daughters: single working women in a Depression-era city, 1929-1939. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.Edited Collections
Srigley, Katrina (co-editor), Stacey Zembryzycki and Franca Iacovetta, Beyond Women’s Words: feminisms and the practices of oral history in the twenty-first century, London: Routledge, 2018.
Srigley, Katrina and Stacey Zembrzycki, "Special Issue: Decolonizing and Decentering in Feminist Oral History", Oral History Review, Special Issue, 45, 1, 2018.
Srigley, Katrina and Stacey Zembrzycki (2009). “Special Issue: Remembering Family, Analyzing Home: Oral History and the Family,” Oral History Forum, 29.Articles
Srigley, Katrina and Autumn Varley, “Learning to Unlearn: Building Relationships on Anishinaabeg Territory,” in Contexts for Indigenous Research, eds. Deborah McGregor and Rochelle Johnston (Toronto: CSPI, 2018).
Srigley, Katrina and Lorraine Sutherland, “Decolonizing, Indigenizing and Biiskaaybiiyang in the Field: Our Oral History Journey, Oral History Review, Vol 44, 1(2018).
Long, John, Richard Preston, Katrina Srigley and Lorraine Sutherland, “Sharing the Land at Moose Factory in 1763,” Ontario History, Vol. CIX, 1(Autumn 2017): 72-96.
Srigley, Katrina. “From Muzzu-Kummik-Quae to Jeanette Corbiere Laval and Back Again: Indigenous and Feminist Approaches to the First-Year Course in Canadian History.” In Feminist Pedagogy In Higher Education: Critical Theory and Practice. Eds. Tracey Penny Light, Jane Nicholas, and Renee Bondy. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2015.
Henri Pallard, Carol Kauppi, Kathy King, and Katrina Srigley, “Homelessness in North Bay, Ontario, Canada,” OIDA International Journal of Sustainable Development Volume 8 (2015): 37-50.
Srigley, Katrina and Jennifer Evans. “Women of the North, who Ministered in the North: space and identity in the silences and recollections of the Sisters of St. Joseph.” Histoire Sociale/Social History, XLVII/93 (May 2014): 37-62.
Srigley, Katrina (2012) (invited publication). “‘I Am a Proud Anishinaabe Kwe’: issues of identity and status in northern Ontario after Bill C-31.” Finding a Way to the Heart: Feminist Writings on Aboriginal and Women’s History in Canada, eds. Valerie Korinek and Robin Jarvis Brownlee. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2012, 241-266.
Srigley, Katrina (2009). “Stories of Strife?: Remembering the Great Depression,” Special Issue: Remembering Family, Analyzing Home: Oral History and the Family, Oral History Forum, 29, pp. 20-40.
Srigley, Katrina (2007). “Clothing Stories: Consumption, Identity, and Desire in Depression-era Toronto.” Journal of Women’s History 19, 1: pp. 82-104.
Srigley, Katrina (2005). “In Case You Hadn’t Noticed!”: Race, Ethnicity and Women’s Wage-earning in a Depression-Era City.” Labour/Le Travail 55, Spring : pp. 69-105.
Recent Book Reviews
Review of Jill Doerfler, Those Who Belong: Identity, Blood, and Citizenship Among the White Earth Anishnaabeg (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2015) in Canadian Journal of History, 52, 1(Spring Summer 2017).
Review of Mary Jane Logan McCallum, Indigenous Women and Work, 1940-1970 (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2014) in Canadian Historical Review, March 2015.
Review Essays
Srigley, Katrina (2010). “Having Minds of Our Own: Gender Equality in the Academy,” Academic Matters: the journal of higher education.
Short Documentary Film
Srigley, Katrina (Director and Producer), “The Nipissing Warriors,” North Bay, Ontario: Regan Pictures, 2017, www.nipissingu.ca/warriors.
Awards
Alison Prentice Award in Women’s History for the best book in women’s history published in the last three years, 2013.
Research Achievement Award, Nipissing University Faculty Association, 2011.