Jean Barman

Jean Barman is a historian of British Columbia. Born in Stephen, Minnesota, United States, Barman arrived in British Columbia in 1971. Her work The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia has been described as the "standard text on the subject [of British Columbia history]." She has received the Lieutenant Governor's Medal for historical writing, and the 2006 City of Vancouver Book Award (for Stanley Park's Secret). She is a professor emerita at the University of British Columbia, as is her husband, the historian of Brazil Roderick Barman.

Education

 * University of British Columbia, 1982, EdD, History of education
 * University of California at Berkeley, 1970, MLS, Librarianship
 * Harvard University, 1963, MA, Russian studies
 * Macalester College, 1961, BA, International relations and history

Publications
Select works:
 * Growing up British in British Columbia : boys in private school, 1982
 * Indian education in Canada, 1986
 * The West beyond the West : a history of British Columbia, 1991
 * Sojourning sisters : the lives and letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen, 2000
 * Constance Lindsay Skinner : writing on the frontier, 2000
 * Leaving paradise : indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest, 1787-1898, 2006
 * Abenaki daring : the life and writings of Noel Annance, 1792-1869, 2016