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Sherry Olson has almost always worked with others, inspiring them to ground their research in an empathetic understanding of the human condition. Through this team work, she has made signal contributions in fields as diverse as environmental, social, urban, and women’s histories, as well as public health, demography, and geographic information systems (GIS).
In this volume, a critical assessment of her life’s work is complemented by original pieces advancing our knowledge in these remarkably diverse fields.
From the environmental impact of colonial settlement in New Zealand to racial segregation in Chicago, from the demography of the Mauricie and marriage patterns of Quebec City to the inns, gay spaces, and landladies of Montreal, this collection demonstrates the complexity of sharing space in the past and its centrality to any critical understandings of the global challenges we face in the present.
Published in English.
Marc St-Hilaire is Professor in the Department of Geography at Université Laval (Quebec City) and former director of the Centre interuniversitaire d’études québécoises.
Robert Sweeny (Editor)
A socio-economic historian, Robert C. H. Sweeny has published extensively on the history of both Quebec and Newfoundland, the two places where he has lived with Elizabeth-Anne Malischewski. His Why Did We Choose to Industrialize? won the 2016 Governor General’s History Award for Scholarly Research (The Sir John A. Macdonald Prize). Back in 2000, he accepted Sherry Olson’s invitation to collaborate on a three-year project to build an historical GIS, Montréal, l’avenir du passé. They are still working on it and hope soon to finish.