Dr. Nicole Neatby

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Email: nicole.neatby@smu.ca

Dr. Neatby is a professor in the History Department at Saint Mary’s University where she teaches courses in public history, the history of popular culture, of women and tourism. Her publications have included studies on women’s higher education, student protest movements in Quebec in the 1950s, commemoration and Quebec tourism. Her most recent research interest focuses on the history of popular stage entertainment in Nova Scotia at the turn of the century. She has been actively involved as a public historian having sat on Canada Post’s Stamp Advisory Committee, worked as a consultant for the Canadian Museum of History and serving as the Nova Scotia representative on the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. Her other engagements in the profession include having served as co-editor of the Canadian Historical Review and now as one of the co-editors of the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association.