Elizabeth Vibert is a Canadian historian and documentary filmmaker.Dan Ebenal, "UVic historian's film unearths African womens struggle". Saanich News, February 25, 2017. She is most noted for her 2025 film Aisha's Story ,Yafa El Masri, "From Mill to Memory: A Journey of Food Practices in Exile." Jerusalem Quarterly, Summer 2024. https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656296]. which won the Audience Award for Mid-Length Films at the 2025 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.Pat Mullen, "Come See Me in the Good Light Wins Hot Docs Audience Award". Point of View, May 5, 2025.
A history professor at the University of Victoria, she was the winner of the Albert B. Corey Prize from the American Historical Association and Canadian Historical Association in 1999 for her book Traders' Tales: Narratives of Cultural Encounters in the Columbia Plateau, 1807-46.Susan Ganley, "American Historical Association Honors 24 Scholars for Excellence". The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 12, 1999. She is co-editor of the anthologies Reading Beyond Words: Contexts for Native History (1997; 2003) and Out There Learning: Critical Reflections on Off-Campus Study Programs (2019), and has published in Gender and History, Ethnohistory, Contemporary African Studies, and other journals, collections, and media outlets.
She made her debut as a filmmaker with The Thinking Garden, with director Christine Welsh, in 2017.
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