Elizabeth Vibert

Elizabeth Vibert is a professor of history at the University of Victoria whose research focuses on gender, poverty, colonialism, and food systems. She is director of the SSHRC-funded research project “Four Stories About Food Sovereignty: Transnational Crises and Local Action,” which uses documentary films as one element of knowledge mobilization. With director Christine Welsh, Elizabeth produced and wrote the award-winning documentary film The Thinking Garden (2017), and has written or edited three books and many articles on colonial history, Indigenous-settler interactions, and South African women’s history.