Jean Barman is a historian of British Columbia. Born in Stephen, Minnesota, United States, Barman arrived in British Columbia in 1971. Her work The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia has been described as the "standard text on the subject [of British Columbia history]."^[1] She has received the Lieutenant Governor's Medal for historical writing,^[1] and the 2006 City of Vancouver Book Award (for Stanley Park's Secret).^[2] She is a professor emerita at the University of British Columbia, as is her husband, the historian of Brazil Roderick Barman.^[1]

• University of British Columbia, 1982, EdD, History of education
• University of California at Berkeley, 1970, MLS, Librarianship
• Harvard University, 1963, MA, Russian studies
• Macalester College, 1961, BA, International relations and history

Select works:[1]

• Growing up British in British Columbia : boys in private school, 1982
• Indian education in Canada, 1986
• The West beyond the West : a history of British Columbia, 1991
• Sojourning sisters : the lives and letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen, 2000
• Constance Lindsay Skinner : writing on the frontier, 2000
• Leaving paradise : indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest, 1787-1898, 2006
• Abenaki daring : the life and writings of Noel Annance, 1792-1869, 2016

• Thecommentary.ca
• Vancouver.ca
• Ojs.library.ubc.ca
• Gov.bc.ca