
Contact:
(519) 885-0220 ext. 24257
mgepp@uwaterloo.ca
Office:听 CGUC 4205
Education:
BA, University of Manitoba, 1980
MA, University of 蓝莓视频, 1990
PhD, University of Toronto, 1996
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Research Areas:听
Mennonite history; gender studies; the history of immigrants and refugees in Canada; the history of food and culture
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Courses Taught:
Undergraduate
HIST 224 - Food, Culture & History
HIST 247 - Mennonite History: A Survey
HIST 351 - Canada: The Immigrant Experience
MENN 125 - Who are the Mennonites?
PACS 203/HIST 232 - A History of Peace Movements
PACS 325 - Refugees and Forced Migration
PACS 321/GSJ 331 - Gender in War & Peace
Graduate
MPACS 610 - Contemporary Nonviolent Movements
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About:
Marlene Epp is a Canadian historian whose scholarship interests focus on Mennonite studies, immigrants and refugees, women and gender, the history of peace and nonviolence, and the history of food and culture.
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Selected Publications:
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Eating Like a Mennonite: Food and Community Across Borders. Montreal: McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2024.
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"Responding to 鈥榃ar鈥檚 Havoc鈥: The Relief Work of Mennonite Women.鈥 In Sarah Glassford and Amy Shaw, eds. Making the Best of It: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the Second World War. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2020, 163-79.
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With Franca Iacovetta. 鈥淏eyond Sisters or Strangers: Feminist Immigrant Women鈥檚 History and Rewriting Canadian History.鈥 In Nancy Janovicek and Carmen Nielson, eds. Reading Canadian Women鈥檚 and Gender History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019, 225-54.
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. Booklet #35 Immigration and Ethnicity in Canada / L鈥橧mmigration et l鈥檈thnicit茅 au Canada. Canadian Historical Association, 2017.听听
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鈥溾楾he dumpling in my soup was lonely just like me鈥: Food in the Memories of Mennonite Women Refugees.鈥 In Donna R. Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta, eds. Borders, Conflict Zones, and Memory: Scholarly Engagements with Luisa Passerini. London: UK, Routledge, 2017. Republished from Women鈥檚 History Review 25, no. 3 (June 2016): 365-81.
- Sisters or Strangers? Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History. Editor, with Franca Iacovetta. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016, second edition.
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鈥淧eppernuts and Anarsa: Food, Religion, and Ritual.鈥 Anabaptist Witness 2, no. 2 (November 2015): 87-90.
- 鈥淓ating Across Borders: Reading Immigrant Cookbooks.鈥 Histoire Sociale/Social History 96 (May 2015): 45-65.
- Edible Histories, Cultural Politics: Towards a Canadian Food History.听Co-edited with Franca Iacovetta and Valerie Korinek. 听Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.
- Mennonites in Ontario: An Introduction.听蓝莓视频: Mennonite Historical Society of Ontario, 1994, 2002, 2012.
- Mennonite Women in Canada: A History. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2008, 378 pp.
- Women Without Men: Mennonite Refugees of the Second World War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. Reprinted 2003.
- 鈥淐atching Babies and Delivering the Dead: Midwives and Undertakers in Mennonite Settlement Communities.鈥 In Myra Rutherdale, ed. Caregiving on the Periphery: Historical Perspectives on Nursing and Midwifery in Canada. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2010, 61-83.
- 听鈥淪exual Violence in War: Mennonite Refugees during the Second World War.鈥 In Stephen J. Rockel and Rick Halpern, eds. Inventing Collateral Damage: Civilian Casualties, War, and Empire. Toronto: Between the Lines Press, 2009.
- 听鈥淭he Semiotics of Zwieback: Feast and Famine in the Narratives of Mennonite Refugee Women.鈥 In Marlene Epp, et al., eds. Sisters or Strangers? Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004.
- 鈥淢idwife-Healers in Canadian Mennonite Immigrant Communities: Women who 鈥榤ade things right鈥.鈥 Histoire Sociale / Social History 80 (November 2007): 323-44.
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Web Features and Articles
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Blog: Anti-racism includes unlearning the history of the land, July 14, 2020
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, June 19, 2019
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, September 7, 2017
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, April 29, 2015