Patrizia Gentile promoted to Full Professor
Congratulations to Patrizia Gentile, who holds a joint appointment in Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies and Human Rights and Social Justice, and has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor, effective July 1, 2022. Gentile will continue her appointment as Graduate Advisor for the Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies MA program next year.
Congratulations on your well-deserved promotion, Pat!
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Patrizia Gentile is a Professor and Graduate Advisor at the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation and an Associate Director at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies. She holds a Ph.D. from Queen鈥檚 University in the Department of History. Her dissertation was an historical study of beauty contests in Canada from the 1920s to the early 1990s. Professor Gentile is also co-author of (UBC: 2010) with Dr. Gary Kinsman.
Research Interests: Cultural/gender history; history of sexuality; history and theory of the body; beauty contests; national security; October Crisis and immigrant communities; queer theory