Candace Nast

My name is Candace Nast and I'm a history graduate student at the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. In 2007, I completed an undergraduate degree in women's studies with a minor in applied information technology.
My current research explores the decline of homebirth on Pelee Island, Ontario, a small Island in Lake Erie and the place where my father and grandmother were born. I am collecting the oral histories of women who became mothers there between 1930 and 1950.

Nov 6, 2009

Installing Omeka

Thanks to debugging help from @Rob_Russell, I managed to get Omeka installed and running on two separate development sites this week.

currently reading

Birth Stories

I was thrilled to find In Her Own Voice: Childbirth Stories from Mennonite Women on the shelf at the university library last week. These narratives were collected in 1988 by Katherine Martens and Heidi Harms in Manitoba through a government initiative to collect oral history interviews. The women interviewed represent three separate waves of Mennonite immigrants: the first coming in the 1870s, the next in the 1920s, and the last in the 1940s.

currently eating

Veg BBQ

The family was recently gifted a barbecue when dear friends moved to British Columbia. Best thing about this bbq is that it has always been veg-only. I'm already hooked - I especially love not heating up the west-facing kitchen (someone's bad idea or terrible joke). Tonight we'll be having asparagus, zucchini, tofu, and baby potatoes, each marinated in some kind of olive oil-balsamic vinegar-basil-oregano combination. And tomorrow there'll be leftovers.

currently tweeting

@Dhympna ever hold them online? — 11 hours 48 min ago
@ryancordell wait a few more days and their cries get quieter. A week or so and they'll be barely audible. — 15 hours 9 min ago
Google streetview car went past me on Rue des Ecoles #Paris #panopticon #squaremichelfoucault — 1 day 15 hours ago

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