Marilyn Barber
Associate Professor
Department of History
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
As an historian of Canada, I am particularly engaged with the study of immigration, women’s and gender history, and oral history. While associate professor in the department before retirement, I taught and supervised in these fields at the undergraduate and graduate level. Most recently, I have combined these interests in the research and writing of Invisible Immigrants: The English in Canada since 1945, a book that is co-authored with Dr. Murray Watson, a UK-based oral historian. The trans-Atlantic partnership in producing the book developed in part from an M.A. oral history seminar that I taught with Murray in the public history program at Carleton. I also have a personal interest in the stories of these English migrants because I experienced some of the differences between England and Canada when I was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to study for my Ph.D. at the University of London in the 1960s.
Research Interest
immigration, women’s and gender history, and oral history.
Publications
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“Stories of Immigrant Isolation and Despair: Canadian Novels and Memoirs since 1850s†in Marjory Harper, ed., The Past and Present of Migration and Mental Health, Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming)
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Immigrant Domestic Servants in Canada, Canadian Historical Association Booklet, Canada’s Ethnic Groups Series, 1991
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Marilyn Barber and Murray Watson, Invisible Immigrants: The English in Canada since 1945, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2015.
