Letitia Johnson

Previous work completed in Department of History, University of Saskatchewan: “A History of Resistance and Compliance: Japanese-Canadian Health, Healthcare, and Healthcare Providers During Internment (1942-1949)” (PhD Dissertation, 2023)

Current: SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow at University of Victoria 

Letitia Johnson is a historian of race, ethnicity, and health. She completed her PhD under the supervision of Erika Dyck at the University of Saskatchewan in 2023. Her dissertation examined how healthcare was provided to Japanese-Canadian internees and analyses why health was important to internee experiences, public perceptions of internment, and the remembrance of internment over time and across place. Her current SSHRC Post-Doctoral research seeks to situate the history of internment in the broader history of rural and remote healthcare in British Columbia, with attention to the important role racialized healthcare providers played in sustaining healthcare in Canada. Working alongside scholars and artists of the Past Wrongs, Future Choices partnership project she also aims to look at healthcare and Japanese internment transnationally, across Canada, USA, Australia, and Brazil.