Tamara Myers

Tamara Myers is professor of History at the University of British Columbia. A specialist in gender, childhood and youth, and the law, she is the author of Caught: Montreal’s Modern Girls and the Law, 1869-1945 and Youth Squad: Policing Children in North America. Her article, “Embodying Delinquency: Boys’ Bodies, Sexuality, and Juvenile Justice in Early Twentieth-Century Quebec” (J. of the History of Sexuality) was awarded best article prizes from both the Society for the History Children and Youth and the CHA’s Committee on Sexuality. She has also published on transnational youth activism and the production of globalmindedness in Canadian schools between the 1960s and 70s in Diplomatic History and the J. of the Canadian Historical Association. She has co-edited Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women’s History (2010 and 2016) and The Difference Kids Make: Bringing Children and Youth into Canadian History (Oxford 2017). She is the past-president of the Society for the History of Children and Youth. Current project examines runaways and street kids in Canada from the 1960s to the 1990s.