COLLEEN SKIDMORE, Ph.D.

University of Alberta

Colleen Skidmore is a photography historian at the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on archives of photographs made by women or about women, and how photography shaped ideas of women in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century North America, especially in Canada. She has also served in a variety of roles in senior academic administration, including appointments as Interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President (Academic) at the University of Alberta.

CURRENT ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

• Professor, Department of History and Classics, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta

• Scholar-in-Residence, The University of Alberta Press, University of Alberta

• Adjunct Professor, History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture, University of Alberta

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: Books

Searching for Mary Schäffer: Women Wilderness Photography. University of Alberta Press, September 2017.

This Wild Spirit: Women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada, ed. University of Alberta Press, 2006. Third printing September 2016.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: Articles

"'Touring An Other's Reality': Aboriginals, Immigrants, and Autochromes," Ethnologies 26:1 (2004), 145-164.

"Imaging the West: Hugo Viewegar and the Autochrome in Canada," History of Photography 27 (Winter 2003), 342-348.

“Photography in the Convent: Grey Nuns, Québec, 1861,” Histoire Sociale/Social History 35 (Winter 2002), 279-310.

“Concordia Salus: Triumphal Arches at Montreal, 1860,” Journal of Canadian Art History XIX/1 (1998), 86-112.

“’All that is interesting in the Canadas’: William Notman’s Maple Box Portfolio of Stereographic Views, 1860,” Journal of Canadian Studies 32 (Winter 1998), 69-90.

“Women Workers at Notman’s Studio,” History of Photography 20 (Summer 1996), 122-128.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: Exhibitions

This Wild Spirit: Women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada, Curator.

Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies18 June – 15 October 2017.

FAB Gallery, University of Alberta, December 2016 – January 2017.

Jasper National Park: Jasper-Yellowhead Museum and Archives, July – November 2016.

Edmonton: FAB Gallery, University of Alberta, March 2008.

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Skidmore CV short Nov 2015