Courtney Mrazek
Profile
Part-Time Professor
BA (Mount Saint Vincent University), MA (Saint Mary’s University), PhD (University of New Brunswick)Email: Courtney.Mrazek@smu.ca
Dr. Courtney Mrazek is a social historian of health in 20th-century Canada with particular interests in public health, eugenics, institutional health, and how settler colonialism has and continues to shape healthcare structures and experiences. Her current research projects include examining patient demographics in Atlantic Canadian sanatoria, women-led health activism in rural Newfoundland and Labrador in the 1980s, and expanding her dissertation research.
Courtney is currently the W.P. Bell Postdoctoral Fellow in Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University. She is also the Vice President of Publicity for the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, the Event Coordinator for the Canada Region Anti-Eugenics Scholarship Hub, and the English Book Review Editor for Scientia Canadensis.
Recent Publications:
Mrazek, Courtney. “‘More a Matter for Medical Men’: The King’s Road Reserve Relocation and Public Health in Early 20th-Century Sydney, Nova Scotia.” Canadian Journal of Health History 40, no.1 (April 2023): 1-32.
Mrazek, Courtney and John G. Reid. “A Coffee with John Reid.” Acadiensis 50, no. 2 (Autumn 2021): 145-154.
Mrazek, Courtney. “‘after planting their few potatoes they wander about the Island’: The Mi’kmaq and British Agricultural Policies in Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia.” Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society Journal, 20 (2017): 18-36.
Selected Fellowships:
2023-2025 W.P. Bell Postdoctoral Fellowship in Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University.
2022-2023 History of Medicine and Healthcare Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Associated Medical Services, held at Saint Mary’s University.
2016-2020 Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
2015-2016 Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada