Education:
Ph.D., University of Toronto - OISE, 1993
M.A., Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1987
M.L.S., University of Western Ontario, 1985
B.A., University of Western Ontario, 1983
Academic Positions:
Associate Professor, Department of History, St. Francis Xavier
University, 1999-
Adjunct Professor, Department of History, Graduate Studies, Dalhousie
University 1996-
Assistant Professor, Department of History, St. Francis Xavier
University, 1994-1999
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of History, Queen's University,
1992-1994
Recent Publications:
"Women, Gender and the History of the Provincial North," in Northern
Perspectives:
Rethinking the History of the Canadian North, edited by
Kerry Abel and Ken Coates
(Toronto: Broadview, 2001).
"Reluctant Historians: Bringing Women's Studies Students to Historical
Consciousness," Atlantis,25,2 (Autumn 2000).
Katherine McPherson, Cecilia Morgan and Nancy Forestell, eds.
Gendered
Pasts:
Historical
Essays in Femininity and Masculinity in Canada (Toronto: Oxford
University
Press, 1999).
"The Miner's Wife: Working-Class Femininity in a Masculine Context,
1920-1950",
Kathryn McPherson,Cecilia Morgan, and Nancy Forestell (eds.)
Gendered
Pasts:
Historical
Essays in Femininity and Masculinity in Canada (Toronto: Oxford
University Press, 1999).
"Bachelors, Boarding-Houses, and Blind Pigs: Gender Construction
in a Multi-Ethnic
Mining Camp, 1909-1920", in Franca Iacovetta, Paula Draper, and
Robert
Ventresca (eds.) A Nation of Immigrants:Women, Workers, and
Communities in
Canadian History, 1840s-1960s (Toronto: University of
Toronto Press, l998).
"'You Never Give Up Worrying': The Consequences of a Hazardous
Mine Environment
for Working-Class Families in Timmins, 1915-1915," in
Changing
Lives: Women and
the Northern Ontario Experience, edited by Margaret Kechnie
et al. (Toronto:
Dundurn Press, 1996).
"Times Were Hard: The Pattern of Women's Paid Labour in St. John's
Between
the TwoWorld Wars," in Their Lives and Times: Women in Newfoundland
and
Labrador, A Collage, edited by Carmelita McGrath et al.
(St. John's: Killick Press, l995).
Current Research Interests:
Gender, Work and and
Disability: Occupational Health and Safety in the
Mining and Textile Industries, l915-1940