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Beverly Lemire is a Professor in the Department of History, Classics and Religion at the University of Alberta, and a Henry Marshall Tory Chair at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. She holds a DPhil from Oxford University and has held academic positions at the University of Lethbridge and the University of New Brunswick before joining the University of Alberta in 2004.
Her research focuses on material culture from the 17th to 19th centuries, examining intersections of gender, race, and empire in global trade. She leads an SSHRC-funded project, 'Fashioning the Imperial Atlantic: Race, Gender and Material Culture, c. 1660–1820,' analyzing how racial hierarchies and material objects shaped colonial societies.
Lemire’s scholarly contributions include co-editing Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America (2021), which won the Horowitz Book Prize, and co-editing Dressing Global Bodies: The Political Power of Dress in World History (2019). Her work has been recognized through awards such as the Order of Canada (2023), Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada (2003), and the J. Gordin Kaplan Award (2012).
Her teaching integrates material culture studies, emphasizing hands-on engagement with museum collections. Lemire’s research spans topics like textile trade, colonial fashion, and the politics of museum collections, reflecting her interdisciplinary approach to global, colonial, and postcolonial histories.
