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Emily Kaliel Previous Graduate Student in Department of History, University of Saskatchewan (Current PhD Candidate in History at University of Guelph)

Current: PhD candidate, Department of History, University of Guelph

Previous work completed in Department of History, University of Saskatchewan: "Educating Immigrant Mothers: District Nursing and the Discourse of Scientific Motherhood in Alberta, 1919-1943."

Emily Kaliel is a historian of health, nutrition, and settler colonialism. She completed her MA under the supervision of Dr. Erika Dyck in 2019. Her PhD research explores the connections between nutrition science, public health programming, and settler colonialism in the Canadian prairies during the early- and mid-twentieth century. Her dissertation specifically examines the connection between diet recommendations supported by nutrition science and public health programming and the alteration of the prairie landscape.