Donica Belisle
supply chains and globalization, Global Histroy, Transnational history, Agriculture, Advertising and Marketing Industries, Capitalism, Racial Capitalism, Political Economy, Consumer Culture, retail history
Women in Business History
Donica Belisle is a Professor of History at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada, currently specializing in the global history of Canadian sugar. She is currently writing a book about the Fiji-Canadian sugar industry.
Recent research specializations were in the histories of retail and consumer culture. She is the author of two books: Retail Nation: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Canada (UBC Press 2011) and Purchasing Power: Women and the Rise of Canadian Consumer Culture (University of Toronto Press 2020).
Recent Conference Participation
| 2023 BHC Meeting:
Presenter, "Imperial Capitalism in the Pacific: Canadian Sugar’s 1922 Departure From Fiji"
Chair, Global Capitalisms and Commodities: Directions for Future Research |