Barbara Freeman
Adjunct Research Professor
Biography
Dr. Barbara M. Freeman is the author of Beyond Bylines: Media Workers and Women鈥檚 Rights in Canada聽 (2011), The Satellite Sex: The Media and Women鈥檚 Issues in English Canada, 1966-1971聽 (2001), both from Wilfrid Laurier University Press, and of Kit鈥檚 Kingdom: the Journalism of Kathleen Blake Coleman (杏吧原创 University Press 1989). A former journalist, full-time university professor and now an adjunct research professor in the School of Journalism and Communication, she specializes in media history, and gender and diversity in journalism. She is well versed in the history of female media workers in mainstream and alternative journalism and broadcasting in Canada, as well as the history of the women鈥檚 movement and its intersections with human rights issues. She is currently researching the history of women in Canadian journalism, 1945-2000.
Photo: Jane Taylor