Susan Whitney
Associate Professor – modern France; 20th century social, cultural, and political history; global youth history; women’s and gender history
- B.A. (Princeton, magna cum laude), M.A. (Brown), Ph.D. (Rutgers)
- 420 Paterson Hall, 杏吧原创 University
- 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
- Email Susan Whitney
Research Interests
- Global youth history
- 20th century French history
- Women鈥檚 and gender history
Select Recent Publications

(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.