Photo Credit: PearlAnn Reichwein

PearlAnn Reichwein, PhD, is a Professor at the University of Alberta who studies the history and heritage of the Canadian West. She leads the Ski Like a Girl project that is tracing a century of Nordic skiing by women and girls in western and northern Canada. Author of Climber's Paradise: Making Canada's Mountain Parks, 1906-1974 (2014), awarded a Canadian Historical Association Clio Prize, and co-author of Uplift: Visual Culture at the Banff School of Fine Arts (2020), her work explores people, parks, and politics to understand Canada. Invited to guest lecture at University of Innsbruck and University of Gustave Eiffel in Paris, and collaborate with historians at University of Fribourg, she serves with the Sport History Review and the Canadian Historical Association. 

Charlotte Mitchell, MA, is a PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation at the University of Alberta. She holds a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral Award and a Sport Canada Sport Participation Research Initiative award. Her past experiences as a Canadian women’s ski jumping athlete who trained at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta and activist for the inclusion of women’s ski jumping in the Olympic Winter Games informs her research interests in sport history and heritage, women in ski jumping and sporting landscapes, sport policy and public history, and gender and social justice. 

Lyndsay Conrad, MA, is a PhD student in history at the University of Alberta in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation. She holds a Master of Arts, Bachelor of Kinesiology, and a Bachelor of Ecotourism and Outdoor Leadership. She brings a wealth of experience from the not-for-profit and government sectors to her studies. Her research explores university outdoor recreation in Canada and the history of the University of Alberta Outdoor Club.  Lyndsay serves as a board member for the Alpine Club of Canada (Edmonton Section), and the University of Alberta’s Kinesiology Sport and Recreation Alumni Association.