Dr. Petra Dolata, Faculty Associate

History, UCalgary

pdolata@ucalgary.ca

Petra Dolata (she/her) is Associate Professor of History and former Canada Research Chair in the History of Energy at the University of Calgary. She is the Scholar in Residence at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities (2018-2023), where she co-convenes the Energy In Society working group. Her SSHRC-funded research focuses on the lived experience and histories of energy in North America and Western Europe, mostly in the 20th century. A granddaughter of coal miners, she grew up in the Ruhr valley, West Germany’s former coal and steel region. She specifically examines how individuals, communities and nations have experienced energy transitions in the past and created stories and memories about these experiences and their respective roles in those transitions.