CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr. Lisa Chilton

Assistant Professor, History Department
University of Prince Edward Island

Institutional address:
History Department
University of Prince Edward Island
550 University Avenue
Charlottetown, PEI
C1A 4P3
Phone: (902) 566-0493
Email: lchilton@upei.ca
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Post-Secondary Education:

2002 Ph.D. - York University, History

Dissertation title: Emigration of English Single Women to Canada and Australia,
1862-1930

1993 M.A. - York University, History

1992 B.A. - York University, English Literature

Academic Publications

Books:

Agents of Empire: British Female Migration to Canada and Australia, 1860s-1930 (Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, May 2007).

Refereed Articles:

“Single Female Immigration and Australia’s Early National Identity,”

British Journal of Australian Studies (forthcoming, vol. 20, 2007)

“A New Class of Women for the Colonies: The Imperial Colonist and the Construction of Empire,”
in Carl Bridge and Kent Fedorowich, eds, The British World: Diaspora, Culture and Identity
(London: Frank Cass, 2003), pp. 36-56.

“Migrants in Montreal: Managing Female British Immigrants at the End of the Nineteenth
Century,” British Journal of Canadian Studies, 16:1 (November 2003): 59-70.

Publications--Other Article Contributions:

 “Canadian Immigration, 1750-1914,” World History Encyclopedia (ABC Clio), forthcoming 2007
(989 words)

"European Women and Imperialism, 1750-1914," World History Encyclopedia (ABC Clio),
forthcoming 2007 (1002 words)

Book Reviews of:

Phillip Buckner, Canada and the End of Empire (Toronto: UBC Press, 2005); Phillip Buckner and
R. Douglas Francis, eds, Canada and the British World Culture, Migration, and Identity (Toronto:
UBC Press, 2006); and Phillip Buckner and R. Douglas Francis, eds, Rediscovering the British
World (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2005) (forthcoming in Canadian Historical Review,
2007).

Vijay Agnew, Where I Come From (Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier Press, 2003) in H-Migration@h-
net.msu.edu (July 2004)

Jean Barman, Sojourning Sisters: The Lives and Letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen (Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 2003), in Canadian Journal of Studies in Nationalism 31 (2004).

Wendy Gordon, Mill Girls and Strangers: Single Women’s Independent Migration in England,
Scotland, and the United States, 1850-1881 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002), in
Victorian Studies 46:3 (2004).

James Jupp From White Australia to Woomera: The Story of Australian Immigration (New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2002), in Canadian Journal of Studies in Nationalism 31 (2004).

Teaching Experience:

Lisa Chilton’s area of teaching expertise relates to the history of Canada and the Atlantic World.
She has taught European and Canadian survey history courses; courses on international migration,
imperialism, and gender relations; and courses on war and revolution in the twentieth century.