Naomi Calnitsky

Title: Instructor - Winter 2025
Email: n.calnitsky@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:

Naomi Alisa Calnitsky is an Independent Scholar and Researcher who works primarily in History and the Humanities. She received a PhD in Canadian History at Carleton University, in Ottawa, where her research focused on the experiences of Mexican migrant farm workers in Canada in the postwar period. She was a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Otago, New Zealand, in 2007-08. She has presented research and published widely in the areas of Canadian and Atlantic History, Mexican Migration, the Contemporary Pacific Islands, Oral History and Canadian Labour History. She began teaching at the University of Winnipeg in 2022.

Courses:
HR-2200-004/ HIST-2512-004 History of Human Rights in Canada