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Susan Whitney

Susan Whitney standing in open area of Tory building

Associate Professor – modern France; 20th century social, cultural, and political history; global youth history; women’s and gender history

Research Interests                                                     

Select Recent Publications

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(Durham and London:  Duke University Press, 2009).

鈥�,鈥� Literary Review of Canada, November 2018.

鈥�,鈥� Literary Review of Canada, January 2018.

鈥�Sisterhood of the Secret Pantaloons:  Suffragists and their descendants,鈥� Literary Review of Canada, Vol. 26, No. 5 (June 2018), pp. 21-22.

Vol. 16 (February 2016), no. 29. Holly Grout, The Force of Beauty:  Transforming French Ideas of Femininity in the Third Republic (LSU Press, 2015)

Clio, 搁茅驳颈蝉&苍产蝉辫;搁别惫别苍颈苍,&苍产蝉辫; (Paris, Vend茅miaire, 2015).

Vol. 14 (March 2014), no. 52.  Brenna Moore, Sacred Dread:  Raissa Maritain, the Allure of Suffering, and the French Catholic Revival (1905-1944), (University of Notre Dame Press, 2013).

鈥淐ommunism: Overview鈥� and 鈥淐ommunism: The Fall of Communism,鈥� The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, ed. Peter N. Stearns (New York and Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2008), Vol. 2, 265-270 and 276-279.

Public lectures and radio interviews

鈥淔rench Children and the Great War,鈥� Symposium on Children, Youth and War, Canadian War Museum, November 19, 2016.

鈥�,鈥� CBC Radio, In Town and Out, November 19, 2016.

Awards

2017-2018 Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award

Current Graduate Supervisions 

Ann Walton, “From Labour to Leisure: Gender, Residential Institutions, and Shifting Approaches to Old Age in Canada, 1900-1960,鈥� Ph.D. thesis (co-supervision with Norman Hillmer).

Tanyss Sharp, 鈥淲omen Religious: Contact and Communication in Exile,鈥� M.A. Thesis (co-supervision with Paul Nelles).

Camas Clowater-Eriksson, 鈥淐anadian Servicewomen in Flight: Gender Integration in the Royal Canadian Air Force,鈥� Master鈥檚 Research Essay (co-supervision with Norman Hillmer).

Recently Completed Graduate Supervisions

Rowen H. Germain, 鈥淜atherine Parr at Hampton Court Palace: A Performance Analysis of 鈥楢 Queen in Danger,鈥欌�� Master鈥檚 Research Essay, 2019. (co-supervision with David Dean).

Theresa LeBane, 鈥淭hree Catholic Congregations in a Nineteenth-Century City:  Providing Social Services, Claiming Space for Women in Kingston, 1841-1874,鈥� M.A. Thesis, 2018.

Mallory Pierce, “We Couldn’t Help Them in Budapest- But We Can Help Them in Canada”: English-Canadian Newspapers and the Hungarian Refugee Influx, 1956-1957,鈥� Master鈥檚 Research Paper, 2018. (co-supervision with Norman Hillmer).

Nicole Marion, 鈥淐anada鈥檚 Disarmers:  The Complicated Struggle Against Nuclear Weapons, 1959-1963,鈥� Ph.D. thesis, 2017.  (co-supervision with Norman Hillmer)

Natalie Hunter, 鈥淢aking Connections, Imagining New Worlds:  Women, Writing, and Resistance in Paris, 1897-1910,鈥� M.A. thesis, 2016.

Frequently Taught Courses 

HIST 2508:  France Since 1889

HIST 3115:  Youth and History

HIST 4201:  Paris in the Jazz Age: Seminar in Modern European History

HIST 5803:  History of Women, Gender and Sexuality:  Foundations

Please note that Professor Whitney is on sabbatical during the 2019-2020 academic year.  She is accepting graduate students in youth history, modern French history, and women鈥檚 and gender history.