Jean Barman


Jean Barman is a Canadian scholar specializing in the study of British Columbia. Born in Stephen, Minnesota, United States, Barman arrived in British Columbia in 1971. Her work The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia has been described as the "standard text on the subject ." She has received the George Woodcock Award for Lifetime Achievement in British Columbia Literature, the Lieutenant Governor's Medal for historical writing, and the 2006 City of Vancouver Book Award. She is a professor emerita at the University of British Columbia, as is her husband, the historian of Brazil Roderick Barman.

Education

  • University of British Columbia, 1982, EdD, History of education
  • University of California at Berkeley, 1970, MLS, Librarianship
  • Harvard University, 1963, MA, Russian studies
  • Macalester College, 1961, BA, International relations and history

Publications

Select works:Growing up British in British Columbia : boys in private school, 1982Indian education in Canada, 1986The West beyond the West : a history of British Columbia, 1991Sojourning sisters : the lives and letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen, 2000Constance Lindsay Skinner : writing on the frontier, 2000The Remarkable Adventures of Portuguese Joe Silvey. 2004Stanley Park's Secret : The Forgotten Families, 2006Leaving paradise : indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest, 1787-1898, 2006Abenaki daring : the life and writings of Noel Annance, 1792-1869, 2016British Columbia in the Balance : 1846-1871, 2022