Dr. Katharine Rollwagen

PhD, History (UOttawa)
History Professor
Faculty: 
Arts and Humanities
Department: 
History
Languages: 
English
Contact:
Contact through VIU Communications

Expertise

Histories of: department stores
high schools
television programming and regulation
company towns
Canadian nationalism

Fields

Canadian history
Histories of childhood
Youth
Education and children's media
Histories of consumer culture

Research goals

My research focuses on the influence that corporate entities have had on everyday life in the past. I have written theses and articles on company towns in British Columbia, the commodification of teenaged culture by Canadian department stores, and Canadians' concerns about television regulation and programming in the 1950s.

Articles

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/how-vancouver-s-woodward-s-could-pave-the-future-of-dying-department-sto...

https://globalnews.ca/news/8880757/nanaimo-street-names-unusual/

Personal or professional websites

https://ah.viu.ca/history/katharine-rollwagen