Profile
Dr. Kristine Alexander, FRHistS is a historian and interdisciplinary scholar. She uses archival research and community-engaged inquiry to better understand how ideas about childhood and adulthood, entwined with hierarchies of race, class, and gender, have worked as crucial and little-understood vectors of power in modern history. She is the author of the award-winning book Guiding Modern Girls and numerous chapters and articles about girlhood, youth organizations, colonialism, agency, and emotions. A former editor of the journal Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures.
Publications
Youth Culture and Indian Boarding Schools,” in TheOxford Handbook of the History of Youth Culture, edited by James Marten (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), 1-20.
With Mary Jane McCallum, “A Structural Pandemic: On Statues, Colonial Violence, and the Importance of History.” ActiveHistory.ca(December 2020)
Kristine Alexander, Mischa Honeck & Isabel Richter, eds., “Mapping Modern Rejuvenation,” Journal of Social History 53, no. 4 (Summer 2020): 875-962.
“Domestic Demobilization: Letters from the Children’s Page,” in Canada 1919: A Nation Shaped by War, edited by Tim Cook & J.L. Granatstein (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2020), 177-189.
With Karen Vallgårda & Stephanie Olsen. “Against Agency.” Commentaries section of the Society for the History of Children & Youth (SHCY) website. October 2018. http://www.shcy.org/features/commentaries/against-agency/
Kristine Alexander, Hudson Eagle Bear, Ashley Henrickson, Tesla Heavy Runner, Taylor Little Mustache, Amy Mack, Jan Newberry, Tanya Pace-Crosschild, Erin Spring, & Kaitlynn Weaver. “Translating Encounters: Connecting Indigenous Young People with Higher Education through a Transmedia Project,” Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education 10, no. 1 (2018): 61-71.
Guiding Modern Girls: Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017.
“Childhood and Colonialism in Canadian History,” History Compass 14, no. 9 (September 2016): 397-406.
“Agency and Emotion Work,” Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 7, no. 2 (2015): 120-128.
With Karen Vallgårda & Stephanie Olsen, “Emotions and the Global Politics of Childhood,” in Childhood, Youth, and Emotions in Modern History, edited by Stephanie Olsen (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2015), 12-34.
“Picturing Girlhood and Empire,” in Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950, edited by Kristine Moruzi & Michelle Smith (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 197-213.
“Can the Girl Guide Speak? The Perils and Pleasures of Looking for Children’s Voices in Archival Research,” Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures (Summer 2012): 132-144.
