Jan Noel is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.

She has written some 35 monographs, including prizewinning scholarship on Indigenous women traders (New York History Award) as well as Canada Dry, a study of the temperance movement (Macdonald Prize). Her article "A Man of Letters and Gender Troubles of 1837" was chosen as Canadian Historical Review article of the year 2017.

Her book Along a River: The First French Canadian Women (UTP 2013) was followed in 2020 by "Merchant Women of New France" for a project organized by Le Bibliotheque Nationale de France and other national archives.