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Jean L. Briggs Interview

Interview with anthropologist, Dr. Jean L. Briggs for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. Briggs talks about her childhood and her education at Vassar College, Boston University, and Harvard. Predominantly, Briggs discusses her experience doing 17 months of fieldwork in remote northern Inuit communities, and her work at Memorial University in Newfoundland.

H. E. Lin Interivew

Interview with physicist Dr. H. E. Lin, for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. Lin discusses her childhood, education, and early career in Taiwan. She also explains the process of moving to Canada with her husband, as well as her teaching and research at the Prince of Wales College (later University of PEI).

Dorothy E. Smith Interview

Interview with sociologist, Dr. Dorothy Smith, for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. Smith talks about her family and growing up in Yorkshire, England. She goes on to explain how she eventually attended college in order to escape tedious secretary jobs, which led to an academic career in sociology. Smith also discusses moving to the USA and Canada, and working as a single parent. She also touches on her involvement in the women’s movement, working on various women’s associations, including the BC Women Studies Association, and Women’s Research Centre.

Diane Bell Interview

Interview with Australian anthropologist, Dr. Diane Bell, for Marianne Ainley’s research project, “Re-explorations: Gender, Science and Environment in the 19th and 20th Century Canada and Australia." Bell talks about her book, Ngarrindjeri wurruwarrin: a world that is, was, and will be. She also talks about how she became interested in anthropology and feminism, and the kinds of research she does in Australia, and her experience with aboriginal informants.

Heather Harris Interview

Interview with Metis anthropologist, Dr. Heather Harris, for Marianne Ainley’s research project, “Re-explorations: Gender, Science and Environment in the 19th and 20th Century Canada and Australia." The interview was conducted by Ainly’s research assistant Anna-Stina Kjellstrom. Harris talks about how as a Cree-metis woman, she became interested in anthropology through hearing oral histories from her family. She touches on the value of oral histories as authoritative sources of information, access she had to informants in communities, and conceptions of knowledge and expertise in indigenous communities compared to Western views.

Antonia Mills Interview

Interview with anthropologist, Dr. Antonia Mills, for Marianne Ainley’s research project, “Re-explorations: Gender, Science and Environment in the 19th and 20th Century Canada and Australia." The interview was conducted by Ainly’s research assistant Anna-Stina Kjellstrom. Mills talks about her academic career, and her experience researching the culture of the Beaver Indians [Dane-Zaa] in northern BC. She also talks about the differences between Indigenous and Western world views around knowledge.

Nancy J. Turner Interview

Interview with ethnobotanist, Dr. Nancy Turner, for Marianne Ainley’s research project, “Re-explorations: Gender, Science and Environment in the 19th and 20th Century Canada and Australia." Turner talks about her family and early academic career in botany, and explains how she started doing ethnobotany. Turner also discusses her research interests and experiences collaborating with linguists, and indigenous partners to produce plant guides. Ainley and Turner discuss historical conceptions of Western science in contrast with indigenous knowledge.

Pat Davitt & Anne Roberts Interview

Interview with Pat Davitt and Anne Roberts about two of their late colleagues, Maggie Benston and Kathleen Gough, for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. They discuss Kathleen Gough’s political activism and academic career in anthropology, including but not limited to, the organizing of an International Women’s Conference in the 1960s with the organization, Voice of Women. Also discussed were Kathleen’s chronic health issues, and her final battle with cancer.

In the second part of the interview, Davitt and Roberts are asked about Maggie Benston, particularly her time working at SFU and the difficulties she faced in the male-dominated chemistry department, and her later work towards starting a women studies program. The interviewees also talk about Maggie’s relationship with her twin sister Marian.

Ursula Franklin Interview

Interview with physicist, Dr. Ursula Franklin for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. Ainley asks about her perspective on western science, her experience attending university in Berlin during WW2, and the work she did at the University of Toronto and the Ontario Research Foundation. Franklin also discusses about her role in the organization, Voice of Women, in the 1960s and how she balanced being a mother while conducting her academic work.

Andrea Lebowitz Interview

Interview with Andrea Liebowitz, Literature/Women’s Studies professor at Simon Fraser University, for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. Liebowitz talks about when she first started working as part of the small faculty at SFU, and several of the colleagues she met, particularly Kathleen Gough and Maggie Benston.

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