Donica Belisle is a cultural historian of Canadian business. She is the author of the books, Purchasing Power: Women and the Rise of Canadian Consumer Culture (University of Toronto Press 2020) and Retail Nation: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Canada (UBC Press 2011). She is currently writing two books: one about the rise of sugar in the Canadian diet, and one about a Canadian owned sugar plantation in Fiji.
Experience
2015–2023
Professor, University of Regina
Education
2007
Trent University, PhD Canadian Studies
Publications
2020
Eating Clean: Anti-Chinese Sugar Advertising and the Making of White Racial Purity in the Canadian Pacific, Global Food History
2020
Purchasing Power: Women and the Rise of Canadian Consumer Culture, University of Toronto Press
2020
Global Food History, Eating Clean: Anti-Chinese Advertising and the Making of White Racial Purity in the Canadian Pacific
2018
Canadian Historical Review, Mary Quayle Innis: Faculty Wives' Contributions and the Making of Academic Celebrity
2014
histoire sociale/Social History, Conservative Consumerism: Consumer Advocacy in Woman’s Century Magazine During and After World War I
2013
Consuming Modernity: Changing Gendered Behaviours and Consumerism, 1919-1945, Guilty Pleasures: Consumer Culture in the Fiction of Mary Quayle Innis
2012
Writing Feminist History: Productive Pasts and New Directions, Sexual Spectacles: Women in Canadian Department Store Magazines Between 1920 and 1950
2011
Canadian Historical Review , Crazy For Bargains: Inventing the Irrational Female Shopper in Modernizing English Canada
2011
Retail Nation: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Canada, Vancouver: UBC Press