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Research Interests: Cultural/gender history; history of sexuality; history and theory of聽the body; beauty contests; national security; October Crisis and immigrant communities;聽queer theory

Cross-appointments (0-100%): Department of History; Department of Sociology; School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies; Department of Law and Legal Studies

Publications:

Books authored:

Patrizia Gentile, Queen of the Maple Leaf: Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity (UBC Press,October 2020).

Queen of the Maple of Leaf is nominated for the Canadian Historical Association Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize 2021.

Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile. The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as聽Sexual Regulation. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010).

Grants/Awards

SSHRC IG Grant (July 2020-2022), Principal Investigator: 鈥淟earning the Ropes: The Beaver Boxing Club and the Re/Making of Marginalized Subjectivities鈥� (co-investigator, Dan Irving)

SSHRC Explore (July 2020-extended to July 2022), Co-Investigator: 鈥淭he Long Shadow of the “Special Period” and the Challenge of Building Cycling Mobilities in Cuba Today鈥� (Principal Investigator, David Hugill)

Books edited:

Patrizia Gentile, Gary Kinsman, and L.Pauline Rankin, eds. We Still Demand!:聽Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2016)

Patrizia Gentile and Jane Nicholas, eds. Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian聽History (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014)

Journal Articles:

Patrizia Gentile, 鈥�Gli Italiani non hanno paura鈥�: Italian-language Newspapers and the 1970 October Crisis,鈥� Quebec Studies 55 (Summer 2013): 135-150.

Patrizia Gentile, 鈥淩estricted Access? National Security, Access to Information, and Queer聽(ing) Archives,鈥� Archivaria 68 (December 2009): 137-158.

Patrizia Gentile and Gary Kinsman, 鈥漇没ret茅, risque et r茅sistance: Le Programme聽canadien de surveillance des homosexuels durant la Guerre froide,鈥� Bulletin d鈥檋istoire聽politique 16, no. 3 (2008): 43-58.

Chapters in Collections:

Patrizia Gentile and Gary Kinsman, 鈥淣ational Security, Homonationalism, and the聽Making of the Neo-Liberal Queer,鈥� in Queer Kaleidoscopes: Disturbing Canadian聽Homonationalisms, eds. OmiSoore H. Dryden & Suzanne Lenon, (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2015)

Patrizia Gentile, 鈥溾�樏� Bas la r茅pression contre les homosexuels!鈥� R茅sistance et聽surveillance des gais 脿 Montr茅al, 1971-1976,鈥� in Histoires de la sexualit茅 au Qu茅bec,聽edited by Jean-Philippe Warren (VLB 茅diteur, 2013).

Jane Nicholas and Patrizia Gentile, 鈥淚ntroduction: Contesting Bodies, Nation, and聽Canadian History,鈥� in Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History, edited by聽Patrizia Gentile and Jane Nicholas (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014)

Patrizia Gentile, 鈥淐apital Queer: Social Memory and Queer Place(s) in Cold War Ottawa,鈥澛爄n Placing Memory, edited by James Opp and John Walsh (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010).

Patrizia Gentile, 鈥溾�楪overnment Girls,鈥� 鈥極ttawa Men鈥�: Cold War Management of Gender聽Relations in the Civil Service鈥�, in Dieter Buse, Gary Kinsman, and Mercedes Steedman聽(eds), Whose National Security? Canadian State Surveillance and The Creation of聽Enemies, eds. (Toronto: Between the Lines: 2000): 131-141.

Activities

President,

Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality- Co-ordinator (with Steven Maynard)