Dorotea Gucciardo

PhD Student
BA, MA, University of Ottawa

TA

  • HIS 231E: Canada – Origins to Present
  • HIS 2179: The Two World Wars

Dissertation

“The Powered Generation: Canadians, Electricity, and Everyday Life, 1882-1960.”

Recent or Selected Publications

With Megan Howatt, “Sniper Girls and Fearless Heroines: The Representation of Foreign Women in English Canadian Media During the Second World War,” in Hacker, Bart (editor), A Companion to Women’s Military History (Forthcoming 2010).

“Toaster”; “Electric Fan” in Staley, David (editor), Encyclopedia of the History of Technology and Invention (Facts on File: Spring 2009).

With John Crosmun, “Taking Stock of la Longue Durée,” in Technology and Culture, January 2007, Volume 48, Number 1, pp. 153–57.

“Attila the Hun”; “Hostages,” in Encyclopedia of Prisoners of War and Internment, Jonathan F. Vance (editor). Denver, CO: ABC-Clio, 2006.

Book Reviews:

Review of Graeme Wynn, Canada and Arctic North America: An Environmental History, (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2007). Technology and Culture, (Forthcoming April 2008).

Review of R.B. Fleming, ed., The Wartime Letters of Leslie and Cecil Frost, 1915–1919, (Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier Press, 2007). H-Net Book Review, February 2008.

Review of John McKendrick Hughes, The Unwanted: Great War Letters from the Field (Alberta: University of Alberta Press, 2005.) Canadian Military History Book Review Supplement, Spring 2006.

Conference Papers:

"Nature's Tonic: Exploring the Technologies of Electric Medicine in Canada, 1850-1920" presented at the International Committee for the History of Technology, 35th Symposium, University of Victoria, August 2008.

“Why drop bombs when you can drop rattlesnakes?: Popular Inventions and Suggestions from the Second World War,” to be presented at The 19th Military History Colloquium, University of Waterloo, 3 May 2008.

“Modernizing the Domestic Workshop: The Invasion of Electrical Servants into Canadian Kitchens, 1920–40,” Canadian Science and Technology Historical Association Conference, University of Toronto, 13 October 2007.

“‘Another of those mad, wild schemes’: Popular Invention in Canada during the Second World War,” International Committee for the History of Technology, 33rd Symposium, University of Leicester, 16 August 2006.

“Lock, Stock, but no Smoking Barrel: The Bren Gun ‘Scandal’ and Canada’s Armament Industry,” Bruce McCaffrey Seminar, University of Western Ontario, 16 March 2006.

Invited Talks:

“Canadian Science and Technology during the Second World War,” delivered to a fourth-year seminar on Canada and the Two World Wars, King’s College, London, ON, 7 February 2008.

“‘The Elements of Style’: How to Prepare a Research Essay,” delivered to a graduate level seminar on American History, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, 23 January 2008.

“The Experiences of Enemy Aliens in Canada during the First World War,” delivered to a fourth-year seminar on Canada and the Two World Wars, King’s College, London, ON, 5 October 2006.

Service

  • 2007 to Present: Student Representative, Canadian Science and Technology Historical Association
  • 2006 to 2008: Chair, History Graduate Student’s Association, University of Western Ontario.
  • 2006 to Present: Member, Society for the History of Technology

Awards

  • Alice Prentice Fellowship, awarded by the University of Western Ontario, May 2008.
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2007–08.
  • Bakken Travel Grant, awarded by the Bakken Library and Museum, March 2008.
  • Best Student Presentation, awarded by the Canadian Science and Technology Historical Association, October 2007.
  • Lois and Ley Smith Foundation Fellowship, awarded by the University of Western Ontario, August 2006.
  • Western Graduate Research Scholarship, awarded by the University of Western Ontario, 2005–09.

Also from this web page: