Dr. Katie Gemmell

Katie Gemmell recently completed a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship in the department of history at the University of Victoria. She is secretary/treasurer for the Canadian History of Education Association/Association canadienne d’histoire de l’éducation.

Current Research

• history of education (curriculum & pedagogy; Catholic education)
• history of Indigenous-Settler relations
• history of women religious
• history education

Select Publications

Katie Gemmell. Review of Inuit, Oblate Missionaries, and Grey Nuns in the Keewatin, 1865–1965 by Frédéric B. Laugrand and Jarich G. Oosten. Canadian Historical Review 105, no.2 (June 2024): 311-312.

Penney Clark, K. M. Gemmell, and Mona Gleason. “Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’éducation (Canada).” In Connecting History of Education: Redes globales de communicación y colaboración científicas, edited by José Luis Hernández Huerta, Antonella Cagnolati, Andrés Payà Rico, 223-244. Valencia, ES: Tirant Humanidades, 2022.

K. M. Gemmell. "‘Living a Philosophical Contradiction?’: Progressive Education in the Archdiocese of Vancouver’s Catholic Schools, 1936-1960." History of Education Quarterly 59, no.3 (August 2019): 351-78.

K. M. Gemmell. Review of Catholic Education in the Wake of Vatican II edited by Rosa Bruno-Jofré and Jon Igelmo Zaldívar. CCHA Historical Studies 85 (2019): 119-22.

K. M. Gemmell. Review of No Ordinary School: The Study, 1915-2015 by Colleen Gray. Historical Studies in Education/Review d'histoire de l'éducation 30, no.1 (Spring 2018): 180-82.

Penney Clark and K. M. Gemmell. “‘The school book question is a farce’: Free Textbook Provision in Nova Scotia, 1864-1944.” Acadiensis XLVI, no.2 (Summer/Autumn 2017): 59-87.

K. M. Gemmell. Review of Progressive Education: Revisioning and Reframing Ontario’s Public Schools, 1919-1942 by Theodore Michael Christou. Education Matters: The Journal of Teaching and Learning 4, no.1 (2016): 110-12.

Education

• PhD (history of education), University of British Columbia, 2021

Select Awards

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2021-2023)

Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2015-2019)

UBC Four-Year Fellowship (2015-2019)

Outstanding Master’s Thesis Recognition Award, Canadian Association of Foundations of Education (2015)

Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Master’s Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2013 – 2014)

Professional Societies

• Canadian History of Education Association
• Canadian Catholic Historical Association