Dr. Donica Belisle is a social and cultural historian of northern North America. Currently she writing a book about Canadian sugar. Other publications include a book about consumer culture (Purchasing Power, UTP 2020) and an award-winning book about mass retail (Retail Nation, UBC 2011). She has also written several articles, including most recently a piece in Global Food History about fears of racial contamination within white Canadians' clean eating discourse.
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Dr. Belisle is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Regina, which is situated on Treaty 4 lands with a presence in Treaty 6. These are the territories of the nêhiyawak, Anihšināpēk, Dakota, Lakota, and Nakoda, and the homeland of the Métis/Michif Nation.