title: Jean Barman
text: # 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
  