Shaw, Amy
Faculty
History and Religion Department
- Phone
- (403) 329-2543
- amy.shaw@uleth.ca
Biography
Amy Shaw has a BA from York University, an MA from McMAster, and a PhD from the University of Western Ontario. Her current interests involve Canadian participation in the Anglo-Boer War, and the experiences of women and girls during the Second World War.
Courses Taught
History 1000: The Foundations of Western Civilization
History 2710: Canada to 1867
History 2720: Canada since 1867
History 3850: Canada: War and Peace
History 3850: History of Canadian Culture
History 3707: Canada after 1939
History 4070: Canada in the Two World Wars
Undergraduate honour's theses
2014. "The War at Home: Southern Albertan Contributions in the First World War"
2009. "Canadian Prisoners of War in WWII"
Undergraduate independent studies supervised (History)
2016. "Lethbridge in the First World War"
2015. "A Study of Pierre Vallières and the FLQ"
2015. "Sexuality in the Victorian Era"
2014. "The Netherlands: Enduring Nazi Occupation"
2010. "Tyne Cott Cemetary: Memories of Passchendaele"
2010. "The Lethbridge Highlanders"
2008. "Culture in Canada during the Cold War"
2007. "Canada in the Pacific during WWII"
Undergraduate independent studies supervised (Canadian Studies)
2015. "The Development of the RCMP in the Canadian West"
2014. "On Their Own: A Study of British Home Children and their Migration tto Canada"
Undergraduate applied studies supervised
2013. "A Study of Southern Alberta Photography"
2013. "Catalogue Shopping: Museum Program"
2009. "The Canadian Pacific Railway in Southern Alberta"
Graduate Reading Courses
2015. "War Crimes in the Abbaye d'Ardenne"
2010. "Manliness and Militarism"
2008. "Prairie Women in Agriculture"
Master's Thesis Supervisor
Elaine Toth "Dutch Immigration to Alberta after the Second World War,"
M.A. thesis, University of Lethbridge. Expected completion fall 2017.
Paul Esau "God, Guns, and Politics"
M.A. thesis, University of Lethbridge. Expected completion fall 2017.
Masters Thesis Committee Member
Brett Clifton, "From the Frontier to the Front: Imagined Community and the Southwestern Alberta Great War Experience"
M.A. thesis, University of Lethbridge. Expected completion spring 2017.
Ashley Henrickson,
M.A. thesis, University of Lethbridge. Expected completion fall 2018.
Courses Taught
History 1000: The Foundations of Western Civilization
History 2710: Canada to 1867
History 2720: Canada since 1867
History 3850: Canada: War and Peace
History 3850: History of Canadian Culture
History 3707: Canada after 1939
History 4070: Canada in the Two World Wars
Undergraduate honour's theses
2014. "The War at Home: Southern Albertan Contributions in the First World War"
2009. "Canadian Prisoners of War in WWII"
Undergraduate independent studies supervised (History)
2016. "Lethbridge in the First World War"
2015. "A Study of Pierre Vallières and the FLQ"
2015. "Sexuality in the Victorian Era"
2014. "The Netherlands: Enduring Nazi Occupation"
2010. "Tyne Cott Cemetary: Memories of Passchendaele"
2010. "The Lethbridge Highlanders"
2008. "Culture in Canada during the Cold War"
2007. "Canada in the Pacific during WWII"
Undergraduate independent studies supervised (Canadian Studies)
2015. "The Development of the RCMP in the Canadian West"
2014. "On Their Own: A Study of British Home Children and their Migration tto Canada"
Undergraduate applied studies supervised
2013. "A Study of Southern Alberta Photography"
2013. "Catalogue Shopping: Museum Program"
2009. "The Canadian Pacific Railway in Southern Alberta"
Graduate Reading Courses
2015. "War Crimes in the Abbaye d'Ardenne"
2010. "Manliness and Militarism"
2008. "Prairie Women in Agriculture"
Master's Thesis Supervisor
Elaine Toth "Dutch Immigration to Alberta after the Second World War,"
M.A. thesis, University of Lethbridge. Expected completion fall 2017.
Paul Esau "God, Guns, and Politics"
M.A. thesis, University of Lethbridge. Expected completion fall 2017.
Masters Thesis Committee Member
Brett Clifton, "From the Frontier to the Front: Imagined Community and the Southwestern Alberta Great War Experience"
M.A. thesis, University of Lethbridge. Expected completion spring 2017.
Ashley Henrickson,
M.A. thesis, University of Lethbridge. Expected completion fall 2018.
Publications
Crisis of Conscience: Conscientious Objectors in Canada in the First World War. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2009.
with Dr. Sarah Glassford, 'A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service': Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland in the Great War. University of British Columbia Press, 2012.
with Dr. Sarah Glassford, 'A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service': Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland in the Great War. University of British Columbia Press, 2012.
Research Interests
society in wartime
citizenship
gender
anti-war movements
citizenship
gender
anti-war movements