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CURRICULUM VITAE

KATHERINE LEIGH SIDE

Associate Professor, Department of Gender Studies/

Interim Associate Dean, School of Graduate Studies

Memorial University of Newfoundland Telephone: (709) 864-2478

P.O. 4200 Fax: (709) 864-2358
St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador E-mail: kside@mun.ca
Canada Website: http://www.faculty.mun.ca/kside/
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EDUCATION

Doctorate of Philosophy, Women’s Studies

York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
In the Shadow of the Family: Women’s Friendships with Women
Supervisor: Dr. Meg Luxton, Graduate Programme in Women’s Studies
1997

Master of Arts, Women’s Studies

The University of Kent at Canterbury, England
The Present Day Position of Women in Israeli Kibbutzim
Supervisor: Dr. Rayah Feldman, Graduate Programme in Women’s Studies
1991

Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology (summa cum laude)

Bachelor of Physical Education
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
1989

EMPLOYMENT

Interim Associate Dean

School of Graduate Studies
Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador
01 09 2014-30 04 2016

Associate Professor (Tenured)

Department of Gender Studies
Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador
07 2014-Present
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Administrative Leave: 07 2013-06 2014

Department Head
Department of Gender Studies (Tenured) &
Programme Coordinator, Law and Society Programme
Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador 09 2009-06 2013
07 2007-06 2013

Sabbatical Leave: 07 2006-06 2007

Associate Professor
Department of Women’s Studies/ Joint University Graduate Programme in Women’s Studies
Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
07 1999-06 2007 (Tenured 2004)

Adjunct Professor, Irish Studies Programme

Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
02 2006-06 2007

Margaret Laurence Scholar in Residence in Gender and Women’s Studies

Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba
09 2004-12 2004

Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies Programme

Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario
09 1998-05 1999

AWARDS AND HONOURS

Nomination, Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Books, American Conference for Irish
Studies, 2016
Awards to Scholarly Publication Program, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
2014 ($8,000)
Clause 3.25 Teaching Remission, Faculty of Arts, Memorial University 2014
SSHRC Travel Award, Office of Research Services, Memorial University 2005, 2013, 2015
Standard Release Time Award, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Mount Saint Vincent University
2001, 2002, 2003
President’s Dissertation Scholarship, School of Graduate Studies, York University 1996-1997
Wentworth Women’s Teacher’s Association Educational Bursary, Ontario 1996
Leadership Award, Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation 1986

VISITING APPOINTMENTS

Visiting Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Women in Politics

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Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
01-02 2006

Visiting Scholar, Women’s Studies Centre

National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
06-07 2005

Research Fellow, Centre for Social Research

Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
06 2000

EXTERNAL & INTERNAL RESEARCH GRANTS

Focus on the Mission: Women Volunteers and their Photographs at the Grenfell Mission
Seed, Bridge and Multidisciplinary Fund, Office of Research Services, Memorial University
Applicant $9,798.93
2015-2017

Runners, Wawas and Chip Eaters: Catholic/Nationalist Displacement in the Moyle District,
Northern Ireland
Arts Research Initiative, Faculty of Arts, Memorial University, Applicant $3,500
2013-2015
Gender, Equality and Governance in Northern Ireland.
Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Standard Research Grant, Principal Investigator $53,656
2009-2012

Social Economy and Sustainability: Innovations in Bridging, Bonding and Capacity Building
Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Community Alliance for Health Research, Social Economy Suite, Atlantic Regional Node
Member, Sub-node 3 Community Mobilization for Food Security and Community Economic
Development
Member, Mobilization Working Group
Co-applicant $1,748,820
2005-2010
Women’s Human Rights, Identities and Citizenships in a North American Context
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada
Co-Investigator & Mount Saint Vincent University Program Director $160,000
2004-2007

Gender, Change and Rural Community Sustainability: The Republic of Ireland, A Preliminary
Investigation
Ireland-Canada University Foundation, Principal Investigator $7,000
2004-2005
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Maintaining Lives on the Margins: Gender, Change and Rural Community Sustainability
Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Standard Research Grant, Principal Investigator $47,689
2003-2006

Maintaining Lives on the Margins

Internal Research Grant, Mount Saint Vincent University, Principal Investigator $5,000
2002-2005

Net Loss Population Settlement and Maintenance of Rural Health Status: A Case Study in
Atlantic Canada
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Strategic Initiatives in Rural Health Research, Co-Investigator $ 88,897
2002-2003

Making a Difference? The Women’s Studies PhD in Canadian Universities

Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women
Principal Investigator $2,500
2002-2003

A Healthy Balance: A Community Alliance for Health Research on Women’s Unpaid Caregiving,
Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada,
Co-Investigator $1,713,285
2000-2005

Measuring and Valuing Women’s Unpaid Economic Contribution in Canada and Northern
Ireland
Mount Saint Vincent University, Internal Research Grant, Principal Investigator $6,494
1999-2002

Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral 1993-1996

Ontario Graduate Scholarship

1994-1995 (Declined)

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

Monograph

Katherine Side. (2015). Patching Peace: Women’s Civil Society Organising in Northern Ireland.
St. John’s: ISER Books. ISBN-13: 978-1-894725-23-1

Refereed Scholarly Articles

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Katherine Side (2015). E. Mary Schwall: Traveller, Mission Volunteer and Amateur
Photographer. Newfoundland and Labrador Studies 30 (1): 55-90.

Katherine Side (2015) Visual and Textual Narratives of Conflict-Related Displacement in

Northern Ireland. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 22 (4): 486-507. doi:
10.1080/1070289x.2014.956746

Katherine Side (2014) Re-Assessing Rural Conflicts: Rituals, Symbols and Commemorations in
the Moyle District, Northern Ireland. Journal of Rural and Community Development 9 (4): 102-
127.

Katherine Side (2011) "A.B.C v. Ireland: A New Beginning to Access Legal Abortion in the
Republic of Ireland?" International Feminist Journal of Politics 13 (3): 391-413. doi:
10.1080/14616742.2011.587370

Katherine Side (2011) ‘Creeping On-Line: Canadian Feminist Scholarly Publishing” Journal of
International Women’s Studies 12 (1): 122-127.

Katherine Side (2009) "Women's Civil and Political Citizenship in the Post Good Friday
Agreement Period in Northern Ireland," Irish Political Studies 24 (1): 67-87. doi:
10.1080/0790718082551092

Katherine Side and Wendy Robbins (2007) “Institutionalizing Inequalities in Canadian

Universities? The Establishment of Canada Research Chairs” NWSA Journal (now Feminist
Formations) 19 (3): 163-181.

Jacqueline Gahagan, Charlotte Loppie, Marlene MacLellan, Laurene Rehman and Katherine Side
(2007) “Far as I Get is the Clothesline: The Impact of Leisure on Women’s Health and Unpaid
Caregiving Experiences in Nova Scotia” Health Care for Women International 28 (1): 47-68.
doi: 10.1080/07399330601003408

Katherine Side (2006) “Picture Politics: Women’s Efforts to Address Sectarianism in Northern
Ireland” Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 32 (1): 23-31.

Katherine Side (2006) “Contract, Charity and Honourable Entitlement: Social Citizenship and
the 1967 Abortion Act in Northern Ireland after the Good Friday Agreement” Social Politics:
International Studies in Gender, State and Society 13 (1): 89-116. doi: 10.1093/sp/jxj004

Katherine Side (2005) “Snapshot on Identity: Women’s Community Contributions in a Rural

Northern Irish District” Women’s Studies International Forum 28 (4): 315-327. doi:
10.1016/j.wsif.2005.04.016

Katherine Side* and Janice Keefe (2005) “The Role of Unpaid Work and Volunteerism in
Maintaining Individual and Community Health in Atlantic Canada: A Case Study Approach”
Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femmes 24 (1): 129-137.
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(* Principal author)

Katherine Side* and Janice Keefe (2005) “Health Regionalization and Rurality in Nova Scotia:
Reemerging Democratic Alignment or False Hope” Canadian Review of Social Policy, 54: 108-
116.
(* Principal Author)

Katherine Side (2001) “Rethinking the Women’s Studies PhD in Canadian Universities” The
Journal of International Women’s Studies 2 (2): 267-288.

Katherine Side (1999) “Government Restraint and the Limits to Reciprocity in Women’s
Friendships” Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal (now Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender.
Culture and Social Justice) 21 (2): 5-15.

Refereed Book Chapters

Katherine Side (2012) Methods in Catherine Orr, Ann Braithwaite and Diane Lichtenstein (Eds.)
Rethinking Women's and Gender Studies (New York: Routledge): 51-64.

Katherine Side* and Janice Keefe (2005) The Role of Unpaid Work and Volunteerism in
Maintaining Individual and Community Health in Atlantic Canada: A Case Study Approach
Reprinted. 2011 in Angela Miles (Ed.) Women in a Globalizing World: Equality,
Development, Peace and Diversity (Toronto: Inanna Publications) (*Principal author).

Katherine Side (1997) In the Shadow of the Family: Women’s Friendships with Women in Meg
Luxton (Ed.) Feminism and Families: Critical Policies and Changing Practices (Halifax:
Fernwood Press): 182-191.

Occasional Papers

Katherine Side (2007) Women’s Civil and Political Citizenship in the Post-Good Friday
Agreement Period in Northern Ireland. Centre for the Advancement of Women in Politics,
Queen’s University, Belfast. Occasional Paper #14. ISBN: 9780853899327.

Published Conference Proceedings

Katherine Side (2012) Promoting the Visibility of Small Departments, 29th Academic
Chairpersons Conference Proceedings. 16 pp.
Katherine Side* (2006) Surfing Feminism’s Third Wave? Feminisms: Within and Without,
National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland: 68-76.
(* Keynote Address)

Jan Catano and Katherine Side (2005) Storm Stayed: Lessons Learned from a Nova Scotia
Consumer Group, Proceedings from the Midwifery Way: A National Forum Reflecting on the
State of Midwifery in Canada (Winnipeg: Prairie Women’s Health Centre): L2-L8.
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Katherine Side (1999) Making and Breaking Women’s Friendships in Feminist Theory, in
Heloise Brown, Ann Kaloski and Ruth Symes (Eds.) Celebrating Women’s Friendships: Past,
Present and Future (York, UK: Raw Nerve Books): 57-77.

Jennifer Lund and Katherine Side (1996) Team Teaching Women’s Studies: A Graduate Student
Perspective, in Ann B. Shteir (Ed.) Graduate Women’s Studies: Visions and Realities (Toronto:
Inanna): 87-94.

Reports

Katherine Side (2004) Globalizing Gender and Women’s Studies at Brandon University.
Submitted to Dean, Faculty of Arts, Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba. 108 pp.

Jacqueline Gahagan, Charlotte Loppie, Marlene MacLellan, Laurene Rehman and Katherine Side
(2004) Caregiver Resilience and the Quest for Balance: A Report on Findings from Focus
Groups (Halifax: Atlantic Centre of Excellence in Women’s Health). 68 pp.

Janice Keefe and Katherine Side (2003) Net Loss Population Settlement Patterns and
Maintenance of Rural Health Status: A Case Study in Atlantic Canada. Report submitted to
Canadian Institutes of Health Research: Strategic Initiatives in Rural Health Research, Diagnostic
and Integrative Projects. 225 pp.

Periodicals (Non-Refereed)

Katherine Side (2012) Promoting the Visibility of Small Departments, The Department Chair 23
(1): 20-21. doi: 10.1002/dch.20047

Katherine Side (2010) Irish Women Hope for Luck, Herizons: Women’s News and Feminist
Views 24 (1): 33-35.

Katherine Side (2007) Why Aren’t There More Women in the Northern Ireland Assembly?
Women’s News: Ireland’s Feminist Magazine. Spring, 163: 4-5.

Katherine Side (2006) D v. Ireland: What are the Implications? Women’s News: Ireland’s
Feminist Magazine. December, 160: 26-27.

Katherine Side (2006) Status of Women Canada under Threat, Women’s News: Ireland’s
Feminist Magazine. December, 160: 9.

Marie Hammond Callaghan, Louise Ryan and Katherine Side (2006) Introduction: Women’s
Irish/Canadian Connections, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 32 (1): 1-11.

Katherine Side (2005) Standing Alone: Disciplining Women’s Studies through Freestanding
Graduate Programs, National Women’s Studies Association Guide to Graduate Work in Gender
and Women’s Studies 2005: 16-18.
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Katherine Side (2005) Picture Politics, Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal 30 (1): 146-147.

Jacqueline Gahagan, Charlotte Loppie, Marlene MacLellan, Laurene Rehman and Katherine
Side, (2005) A Healthy Balance: Women’s Paid and Unpaid Work in Nova Scotia, Centres of
Excellence for Women’s Health Research Bulletin 4 (2): 4-5.

Katherine Side, Kate Bezanson and Meg Luxton (2004) Editors’ Introduction, Special Issue,
Never Done: The Challenge of Unpaid Work, Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal (now
Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender. Culture and Social Justice) 28 (2): 1-5.

Katherine Side (2002-3) Conference Report: Women’s History: Irish Canadian Connections,
Canadian Association of Irish Studies Newsletter 16 (2): 3.

Katherine Side (2001) The Women’s Studies PhD: Strategic Growth or Programme Creep?
CAUT Bulletin, Status of Women Supplement 28 (7): 3.

Book Reviews

Katherine Side (2012) Review of Sean J. Connelly, Ed. 2012. Belfast 400: People, Place and
History, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 38 (1 & 2):
311-313.

Katherine Side (2012) Review of Barbara Pini and Belinda Leach, Eds. 2011. Reshaping Gender
and Class in Rural Spaces, Farnham: Ashgate. Women’s Studies International Forum 35 (2): 65-
66. doi: 10.1016/j.wsif.2011.12.001

Katherine Side (2010) Review of Cahal McLaughlin. 2010. Recording Memories from Political
Violence: A Film-Maker’s Journey, Chicago: Chicago University Press. Canadian Journal of
Irish Studies 36 (2): 210-212.

Katherine Side (2004) Review of Máiréad Nic Craith. 2002. Plural Identities, Singular
Narratives: The Case of Northern Ireland, New York, Berghahn. The Canadian Review of
Sociology and Anthropology 27 (4) On-Line Book Reviews:
http://www.csaa.ca/BookReview/ReviewsList.htm

Katherine Side (2004) Review of Patricia Rind. 2002. Women’s Best Friendships: Beyond Betty,
Veronica, Thelma and Louise, London: Routledge in Psychology of Women Quarterly 28 (1):
100-101. doi:10.1111/j.1471-6402.2004.126_8.x

Katherine Side (2001) Review of Livia Wittman. 1998. Interactive Identities: Jewish Women in
New Zealand, Auckland: Dunmore Press; Jyoti Puri, 1999, Woman, Body and Desire in Post-
Colonial India: Narratives of Gender and Sexuality, London: Routledge; and, Patricia Morley,
1999, The Mountain is Moving: Japanese Women’s Lives, Vancouver: University of British
Columbia Press in Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal (now Atlantis: Critical Studies in
Gender. Culture and Social Justice) 26 (1): 98-100.
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Katherine Side (2000) Review of Carol Baines, Patricia Evans and Sheila Neysmith, Eds. 1998.
Women’s Caring: Feminist Perspectives on Social Welfare, Oxford: Oxford University Press in
Socialist Studies Bulletin 60: 72-75.

Katherine Side (1997) Review of Valerie Hey. 1997. The Company She Keeps: An Ethnography
of Girl’s Friendships, London: Open University Press and Jennifer Coates. 1991. Women Talk:
Conversation between Women Friends, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell in European Journal of
Women’s Studies 4 (4): 501-504. doi: 10.1177.1350506897700400407

Katherine Side (1994) Review of Tamar El-Or. 1994. Educated and Ignorant: Ultraorthodox
Jewish Women and Their World, Boulder: Lynne Reiner in Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers
de la femme 15 (1): 114-115.

Exhibition

E. Mary Schwall: Grenfell Volunteer and Amateur Photographer, Photographic Exhibition.

Queen Elizabeth II Library, Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.
10 10 2014-15 01 2015

Accepted, Forthcoming

Katherine Side. (2016) Irish Abortion Politics; Domestic and Transnational Tensions, in Róisin
Ryan-Flood, Ed., Gender and Intimacy in Ireland. London: Routledge.

Katherine Side and Cahal McLaughlin (2016) ‘Some of these Stories Don’t Sit Comfortably
Next to Each Other’: An Interview with Filmmaker Cahal McLaughlin. Canadian Journal of
Irish Studies.

Katherine Side (2016) Review of Feargal Cochrane. 2013. Northern Ireland: The Reluctant
Peace. Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 38.

TEACHING

Undergraduate Courses

Sociology of Gender Roles

Focus on Women I/(re-titled) Gender in Transnational Perspective I
Focus on Women II/(retitled) Gender in Transnational Perspective II
Introduction to Women’s Studies/Introduction to Gender Studies
History of Feminist Thought
History and Development of Feminist Thought
Contemporary Feminist Thought
Advanced Topics in Contemporary Feminist Thought
Women’s Studies Methodology
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Feminist Research Methods/(re-titled) Feminist Approaches to Research Methods
Women and Health/ (retitled) Gendered Politics of Health
Health Education and Health Promotion
Sociology of Health
Women, Social Policy and the Welfare State (Cross listed, Department of Political Science &
Canadian Studies Programme)
Women and Work
Contemporary Canadian Women’s Movements
Contemporary Feminist Issues
Feminist Praxis
Seminar in Women’s Studies
Special Topics: Women, Culture and Food (Cross listed, Department of Religious Studies and
Philosophy)
Special Topics in Women’s Studies: Third Wave/Next Wave Feminisms
Special Topics in Women’s Studies: Women, Identities and Politics in Northern Ireland
Special Topics in Women’s Studies: Girlhood and Girl Culture

Graduate Courses

Theories of Feminism
Epistemological and Methodological Approaches to Women’s Studies
Graduate Seminar in Women’s Studies/(re-titled) Graduate Seminar in Gender Studies
Advanced Topics in Women and Social Policy
Directed Study: Gender, Law and Politics in the European Union

TEACHINGS GRANTS

Learning Module Pilot on Academic Integrity for All First Year Student
Teaching and Learning Framework
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador
Co-Applicant $118,700.
2015-2016

GRADUATE SUPERVISION & COMMITTEE PARTICIPATION

Doctoral Dissertations

Supervisor

Stephen Jackson. Internationalizing for Global Citizenship in Post-Secondary Institutions:

Comparative Perspectives. Interdisciplinary PhD Programme, Memorial University. Anticipated
completion 2017.

Internal Examiner
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Jill Allison. 2009. Affirmations, Contestations and Contradictions: Experiences of Infertility in
Ireland. Ph.D. Department of Anthropology, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
(Published monograph: Motherhood and Infertility in Ireland: Understanding the Presence of
Absence. Cork: University of Cork Press, 2012) (Coordinator, Global Health Office, Faculty of
Medicine, Memorial University)

Master Theses, Project & Internship Reports

Supervisor

Zincia Francis. Human Trafficking Project in York Region. Master of Gender Studies, Memorial
University of Newfoundland. Anticipated completion 2016. (Community Outreach Worker, York
Region Children’s Aid Society, Toronto, ON)

Mimi Sheriff. Insight into the UNDP’s Approach to Gender and Sustainable Development in
Ethiopia. Master of Women’s Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Completed 2011.
(Account Manager, Bluedrop Learning Network, St. John’s, NL)

Andrea Dawe (Keating). Post -Feminisms and Media Culture. Master of Women’s Studies,
Memorial University of Newfoundland. Completed 2010. (Senior Career Development
Coordinator (Arts), Memorial University, St. John’s, NL)

Mary Jollimore. Portrayal of Female Olympic Athletes in Sports Illustrated, 1980-2002. Joint
Graduate Program in Women’s Studies, MSVU. Completed 2002. (Course Instructor, Sports
Journalism, Loyalist College, Bellville, ON)

Jessica Bailey. The Experience of Midwives in Three Canadian Provinces. Joint Graduate
Program in Women’s Studies, MSVU. Completed 2002. (Midwife, Saskatoon, SK)

Pamela McKane. Women’s Political Involvement in Northern Ireland. Joint Graduate Program in
Women’s Studies, MSVU. Completed 2001.
(PhD, “No Idle Sightseers:” The Ulster Women’s Unionist Council and the Ulster Crisis, 1912-
1914. Department of Political Science, York University. January 2015) (Sessional Instructor,
Department of Politics, Trent University, Peterborough, ON)

Co-Supervisor

Dr. Judit Lovas.“Because You’re Worth It:” Gender and Diversity at L’Oreal. Master of Gender
Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Anticipated Completion 2016.

Committee Participation & Examiner

Sandra Murdoch. Fitting into Divided Society: An Ethnographic Study of a Chinese Community
in Belfast. PhD Programme, Department of Anthropology, Memorial University of
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Newfoundland. Committee Member. Withdrew 2012.
Rowan Huang. Expectations of Love and Marriage in Relationships between Chinese Women
and Western Men in Urban China. Master of Women’s Studies, Memorial University of
Newfoundland. External Examiner 2008.

Julie Singleton. Reproducing Genes: A Feminist Analysis of Genetic Ties. Joint Graduate
Program in Women’s Studies, MSVU. Internal Examiner 2001.

Azza Anis. Reflections on Women’s Political Activism in Sudan. Joint Graduate Program in
Women’s Studies, MSVU. Thesis Chair 2001.

Laura Fitzpatrick. Lesbian Stories of Kinship Building. Master of Women’s Studies, Memorial
University of Newfoundland. External Examiner 2001.

Elizabeth Simpson. Family Violence and Family Identity. MA Graduate Programme in

Sociology, Acadia University. External Examiner 2001.

Undergraduate Honours Thesis

Supervisor

Julian Davis. Women and Ice Hockey in Canada. Department of Women’s Studies, MSVU,
Supervisor 2004.

Maureen Wentzell. Accessing Choice in Nova Scotia. Department of Women’s Studies, MSVU.
Supervisor 2002.

Committee Participation & Examiner

Irene Forsey, The Self -Employment Women’s Association, India. Department of Sociology,
MSVU. Committee Member 2006.

Additional Academic & Administrative Supervision

From 2001 until the present, I have also supervised 16 undergraduate and graduate students in:
Student Works Programme; Student Research Assistantships; Graduate Student Research
Assistantships; Canadian Institutes for Health Research Fellowships; and, Social Science and
Humanities Research Council of Canada Master Fellowships, and Graduate Research
Assistantships.

Total funding amount: $71,328

SERVICE
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Academic Programme Reviews (Internal & External Reviewer)

Reviewer, Academic Programme Review, Internal Appointment. Department of History,

Memorial University. 03 2013
Reviewer, Academic Programme Review, External Appointment. Women’s Studies Program, St.
Francis Xavier University. 10 2012
Reviewer, Academic Programme Review, External Appointment. Women’s Studies Program,
University of New Brunswick. 03 2012
Reviewer, Academic Programme Review, External Appointment (as Margaret Laurence Scholar
in Residence in Gender and Women’s Studies). Women’s Studies Program, Brandon University.
2004

Grant Adjudication & External Review

Chair (ex-officio), Vanier Canada (SSHRC) Graduate Scholarship Committee, Memorial

University. 2014-2015.
Chair (ex-officio), Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral, Social Science and Humanities
Research Council of Canada. 2014-2016
Chair (ex-officio), Canada Graduate Scholarship-Masters, Social Science and Humanities
Research Council of Canada. 2014-2016
External Faculty Advisor, Textually Active: A Feminist Journal. 2012-2014
Member, Grant Adjudication Committee, ISER/Smallwood Grants, Memorial University. 2008-
2011
Member, Grant Adjudication Committee, Atlantic Metropolis Centre Grants, Saint Mary’s
University (Atlantic Hub). 2008-2011
Member, Research Grant Evaluation Committee, Atlantic Metropolis Centre. Saint Mary’s
University (Atlantic Hub). 2007-2010
Member, Aid to Scholarly Publication Programme, Adjudication Committee, Federation of the
Humanities and Social Sciences. 2007-2010
Member, Grant Adjudication Committee, Sub-Node 3 Community Mobilization for Food
Security and Community Economic Development. 2007-2009
External Reviewer, Women’s Studies, Standard Research Grants Programme, Social Science and
Humanities Research Council of Canada, Committee 20. 2005
Member, Undergraduate Essay Prize Committee, Canadian Women’s Studies Association. 2004-
2006

Peer Reviewer, Scholarly Journals & Publishers

Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal (now Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture and
Social Justice)
Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
ESC: English Studies in Canada
Fernwood Press
Irish Feminist Review
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Journal of International Women’s Studies
Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences
Nelson Education Limited
Reproductive Biomedicine and Society
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism
Sumach Press

Editor & Editorial Board, Scholarly Journals

Editor. Journal of International Women’s Studies, 2000-Present

Editor. Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal (now Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture
and Social Justice), 2007-2010
Editorial Review Board. Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal, (now Atlantis: Critical Studies in
Gender, Culture and Social Justice), 2004-2007
Editorial Board. Irish Feminist Review. 2005-2007

Guest Editor, Scholarly Journals

(2006) Special Issue, Irish/Canadian Women’s Connections, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies
32 (1).
(2006) Special Issue, Rural Women in Canada, Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la
femmes 24 (4).
(2004) Special Issue, Never Done: The Challenge of Unpaid Work, Atlantis: A Women’s Studies
Journal (now Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture and Social Justice), 28 (2).

Committee Positions, External

President (Elected), Canadian Women’s Studies Association (now, Women’s and Gender Studies
et Recherches Féministes). 2010-2012
Coordinator, Atlantic Women’s Studies Coordinators’ Meeting, Halifax, NS. 04 2008
Member, Women’s Committee, Canadian Association of University Teachers. 2003-2009
Conference Co-Chair, Programme Committee Member, Canadian Women’s Studies Association
(now, Women’s and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes). 2002-2003

University Committees

School of Graduate Studies Representative, Glenn Roy Blundon Centre for Students with
Disabilities. 2015-2016.
School of Graduate Studies Representative, Ad-hoc Senate Sub-Committee on Academic
Integrity. 2015-2016.
Member (ex-officio), Academic Appeals Committee, School of Graduate Studies, Memorial
University. 2014-2016.
Member (ex-officio), Academic Council Executive, School of Graduate Studies, Memorial
University. 2014-2015.
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Member, Organizing Committee, Interdisciplinary Research Symposium: Irish Studies in Talamh
an Éisc, Memorial University. 2013, 2015
Member, Academic Appeals Committee, School of Graduate Studies, Memorial University.
2010-2013
Member (elected), Dean of Arts Search Committee, Memorial University. 2011–2012
Representative, Faculty of Arts, Academic Council, School of Graduate Studies, Memorial
University. 2009– 2011, 2011–2013
Chair (appointed), Headship Search, Department of German and Russian, Faculty of Arts,
Memorial University. 2012
Senate Advisory Committee on the Library, Memorial University. 2008-2011
Member (appointed), Dean’s Award Committee (Distinguished Scholarship), Faculty of Arts,
Memorial University. 2011
Member (appointed), Dean’s Award Committee (Service to the Faculty), Faculty of Arts,
Memorial University. 2009
Chair (appointed), Headship Search, Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Memorial
University. 2009
Senate Ad-Hoc Appeals (Academic Misconduct) Committee, Memorial University. 2008, 2010

Member, Senate Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, MSVU. 2005-2008

Member, Senate Library Committee, MSVU. 2002-2004
Member (appointed), Senator Nancy Rowell Jackman Chair Committee (now, Nancy’s Chair),
MSVU. 2000-2002
Faculty Council Executive, MSVU. 2001-2004
Member-at-Large (elected), Faculty Association Executive, MSVU. 2005–2006
Nominations Committee (elected), Faculty Association, MSVU. 2002-2004
Financial Donations Committee (elected), Faculty Association, MSVU. 2001-2004
Graduate Admissions and Planning Committee, MSVU. 2000-2000
Curriculum Committee, MSVU. 2001-2004

Department Committees

As Department Head (Gender Studies), Memorial University, I chaired, or served as an ex-officio

member on the following committees, 2007-2013:

Chair, Executive Committee

Chair, Gender Studies Council
Chair, Graduate Studies Advisory Committee
Chair, Undergraduate Studies Advisory Committee
Member, Advisory Committee on Speakers
Member, Library Committee
Member, Nominating Committee

I also served on the following committees and/or have taken responsibility for:
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Representative (Women’s Studies), Women in Engineering Memorial Scholarship Committee.
2009 -2011
Faculty Advisor, International Women’s Day Awards Committee, Memorial University Student
Union. 2010

Faculty Advisor, Women’s Studies Student Society, Department of Women’s Studies. MSVU
2000-2004, 2005-2006
Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Department of Women’s Studies, MSVU.
2000-2004
Web Site Liaison, Department of Women’s Studies, MSVU, 2000-2004
Library Coordinator, Department of Women’s Studies, MSVU, 1999-2003
Member, Women’s Studies Brochure Committee, Department of Women’s Studies, MSVU.
2000-2002
Member, Ethics Review Committee, Department of Women’s Studies, MSVU. 1999-2000,
2003-2004

Chair, Dean’s Delegate, School of Graduate Studies

25/01/2016 – Doctoral Defense

08/01 2016 – Doctoral Defense
14/08 2015 – Doctoral Defense
23/07 2015 – Doctoral Defense
15/07 2015 – Comprehensive Examination
10/07 2015 – Doctoral Defense
24/06 2015 – Doctoral Defense
26/05 2015 – Doctoral Defense
29/04 2015 – Doctoral Defense
02/04 2015 – Doctoral Defense
01/04 2015 – Comprehensive Examination
04/02 2015 – Doctoral Defense
15/01 2015 – Doctoral Defense
09/01 2015 – Comprehensive Examination
01/12 2014 – Comprehensive Examination
02/10 2014 – Doctoral Defense
02/11 2014 – Doctoral Defense

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
Invited Presentations

Abortion, Ireland, Northern Ireland and the European Court of Human Rights.
Reproductive Justice Conference, (22nd Anniversary of the Morgentaler Decision)
Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
28/02 2010
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Shaping the Next Generation: Disciplining Women’s Studies in Canadian Universities?
York University, Toronto, Ontario (Invited by the School of Women’s Studies, 50th Anniversary
Celebrations, York University)
21/01 2009

Women’s Civil and Political Citizenship in Northern Ireland: Addressing Barriers in the Post-
Good Friday Agreement Period
Irish Politics Seminar, School of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy, Queen’s
University, Belfast, Northern Ireland (Invited as a Visiting Fellow, Centre for the Advancement
of Women in Politics)
08/02 2007

Changes in Women's Studies

St. John's Status of Women Council and St. John's Women's Centre, Annual General Meeting
St. John’s, Newfoundland (Invited as Head, Department of Women's Studies, Memorial
University)
13/01 2007

Women’s Studies in the Academic Job Market

Department of Women’s Studies, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia
(Invited Presentation, 30th Anniversary of Women’s Studies, Simon Fraser University)
02 2006

Surfing Feminism’s ‘Third Wave’? Feminisms Within and Without Conference

National University of Ireland, Galway Ireland (Keynote Address)
07/07 2005

Women’s Friendship Relations with Women: Legislated Volunteerism

Research Lecture Series, York University (Invited as Recipient of the President’s Dissertation
Scholarship, York University)
05 1997

Presentations at Scholarly Conferences, Symposia and Research Groups

Mobility, Migration and Access to Legal Abortion in (and Beyond) the Republic of Ireland
Research Exchange Group on Global Health, Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Applied
Health Research
St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador
18/12 2015

“A State of Apathy and a Deadening of All Ambitions:” The Photograph Collection of E. Mary
Schwall
National Women’s Studies Association (SSHRC Travel Award 2015)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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13/11 2015
Mobility, Migration and Access to Legal Abortion in the Republic of Ireland
Second Interdisciplinary Research Symposium: Irish Studies in Talamh an Éisc,
Memorial University
St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador
21/11 2015

“Ungenerous, Though Not Mean:” Accessing the Scheme for the Purchase of Evacuated
Dwellings in Northern Ireland
European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies
Palermo, Italy
04/06 2015

SPED: Scheme for the Purchase of Evacuated Dwellings, Northern Ireland

American Conference of Irish Studies
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
03/27 2015

Women’s and Gender Studies, and Peace Studies

National Women’s Studies Association
San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA
14/11 2014

E. Mary Schwall: Traveller, Mission Volunteer and Amateur Photographer

International Grenfell Association Symposium
St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador
18/10 2014

The ‘Northern Refugee Crisis:’ The Politics of Remembering

American Conference for Irish Studies & Canadian Association for Irish Studies
Dublin, Ireland
14/06 2014

Shifting Spaces: Constructing Rural Pasts in Northern Ireland

Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
07/12 2013

Irish Abortion Politics: Domestic and Transnational Tensions

National Women’s Studies Association (SSHRC Travel Award)
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
09/11 2013

The Political Grammar of Internal Displacement in Northern Ireland

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American Conference for Irish Studies
Chicago, Illinois, US
13/05 2013

Visual Narratives of Conflict Instigated Displacement in Northern Ireland

First Interdisciplinary Research Symposium: Irish Studies in Talamh an Éisc
Memorial University
St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador
08/03/13

Newly Emerging Orthodoxy? Women’s Civil Society Participation for Conflict Resolution in
Northern Ireland
International Conference of Ethnographies of Conflict and Gender
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
07/07 2011

Evaluating Women's Studies: Future Directions

Canadian Women's Studies Association
Fredericton, New Brunswick
31/05 2011

Promoting the Visibility of Small Departments

Academic Chairpersons Conference
Orlando, Florida, US
18/02 2011

Settling for Less? A Preliminary Assessment of the Northern Ireland’s Gender Equality Strategy
Canadian Association of Irish Studies Conference
Halifax, Nova Scotia
21/06 2010

Settling for Less? Northern Ireland’s Gender Equality Strategy, (with Laura Nelson-Hamilton,
SSHRC MA Fellowship holder)
Canadian Women’s Studies Association
Montréal, Quebec
29/05 2010

Feminist Methods: Questioning Unquestioned Assumptions

National Women’s Studies Association
Denver, Colorado, US
15/11 2009

Creeping On-Line: Canadian Feminist Scholarly Publishing

National Women’s Studies Association
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Denver, Colorado, US
13/11 2009

How to Win While Losing: The Human Rights Complaint against the Canada Research Chairs
Program
National Women’s Studies Association
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
21/06 2008

Introductory Women's Studies: Thinking about the Role of Introductory Courses

National Women's Studies Association
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
19/06 2008

Storm Stayed: Sharing Lessons Learned from a Nova Scotia Midwifery Consumer Group
Atlantic Centre for Excellence in Women’s Health Conference
Halifax, Nova Scotia
23/07 2007

The Island of Ireland, Abortion and the European Court of Human Rights
Gender Unbound, Arts and Humanities Research Council Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality
Keele, United Kingdom
11/07 2007

Surfing Feminism’s Third Wave: (Re) Constructing Agency and Knowledge in Gender and
Women’s Studies
Gender and Canadian Values in the 21st Century
Brandon, Manitoba
16/08 2005

Teaching Third Wave Feminism: Charting a New Wave?

Canadian Women’s Studies Association
University of Western Ontario (now, Western University), London, Ontario (SSHRC Travel
Award)
31/05 2005

Unpaid Work and Volunteerism in Maintaining Community Health in Atlantic

Canada
Fifth National Canadian Rural Health Research Society Conference
Sudbury, Ontario
23/10 2004

Convergences and Divergences: Women’s Cross-Community Organizing in a Northern Irish

District
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Canadian Women’s Studies Association
Winnipeg, Manitoba
31/05 2004

‘Snapshot on Identity’: Women’s Community Contributions in A Northern Irish District

Canadian Association for Irish Studies
Halifax, Nova Scotia
28/05 2004

Contract, Charity and Honourable Entitlement: The 1967 Abortion Act in Northern Ireland after
the Good Friday Agreement
Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association
Halifax, Nova Scotia
04/06 2003

Making a Difference? The Women’s Studies PhD in Canadian Universities

Canadian Women’s Studies Association
Halifax, Nova Scotia
03/06 2003

Marginalizing Materialism in Feminist Theory: Implications for Women’s Studies as a

Contemporary Institution
Feminist and Women’s Studies Network UK and Ireland
Belfast, Northern Ireland
21/09 2002

Economic Transitions: Women and Change in Atlantic Canada

Lifestyles of Rural Women in Atlantic Canada conference
Wolfville, Nova Scotia
09/03 2002

www.women’sstudiesmethodology
Atlantic Universities Teaching Showcase
Sackville, New Brunswick
27/10 2001

The Women’s Studies PhD: Implications & Articulations

Atlanta, Georgia, US
14/10 2001

Women in Northern Ireland: After the Good Friday Agreement

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Canadian Women’s Studies Association
Laval, Quebec
27/05 2001

The Women’s Studies PhD: Future Directions

Canadian Women’s Studies Association
Laval, Quebec
25/05 2001

Passing a Camel through the Eye of a Needle: Measuring and Valuing Women’s Unpaid Work in
Israel and Palestine
International Conference of Women and Society in the Middle East.
Emek Yezreel, Israel
22/05 2000

Gender and the Privatization of Welfare in Ontario: Some Preliminary Findings, (with Kate
Bezanson)
Canadian Women’s Studies Association
Ottawa, Ontario
31/05 1998

Keeping in Touch: Talk Between Women Friends

National Women’s Studies Association
Missouri, St. Louis, US
19/06 1997

Kith, Kin and Knaidlach

Canadian Women’s Studies Association
Montréal, Québec
04/06 1995

Cartographies of Care: Mapping Out Family and Friendship Relations

Feminist and Women’s Studies Network UK and Ireland
Mid-Glamorgan, Wales, UK
07/07 1996

Kith, Kin and Knaidlach, (with Lisa Rosenberg)

National Women’s Studies Association
Norman, Oklahoma, US
22/06 1995
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Theorizing Women’s Friendships
National Women’s Studies Association
Ames, Iowa, US
18/06 1994

Other Scholarly Presentations

Conversations on Critical Genealogies: Methods and Disciplines, (with Dr. Ann Braithwaite)
Department of Women's Studies Speakers' Series
Memorial University
08/01 2010

Abortion, Ireland and Human Rights Discourses at the ECHR

Department of Women's Studies Speakers' Series, Memorial University
St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador
04/10 2010

Women’s Civil and Political Citizenship in Northern Ireland in the Post-GFA Period
Women and Politics Workshop, Department of Political Science, Memorial University
St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador
05/05 2009

Women in Post-Secondary Education: Full-time Tenured Appointments in Canadian Universities

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Halifax, Nova Scotia
29/04 2006

On Display: The Public Scrutiny of Girls in Late Modernity

Women’s Studies Program Speakers’ Series, University of Prince Edward Island
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
20/01 2006

Learning to Kick with the Other Foot: Addressing Community Relations in Northern Ireland
through Photo Voice
Liberal Arts Lecture Series, Brandon University
Brandon, Manitoba
11 2004

Net Loss Population Settlement Patterns and Maintenance of Rural Health Status: A Case Study
in Atlantic Canada
Public presentation, CIHR Research Results
Halifax, Nova Scotia
28/01 2004
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Halifax Hearings
Canadian Association of University Teachers
Halifax, Nova Scotia
10/03 2001

Since 1997, I have conducted and co-facilitated roundtable discussions and professional
development seminars with Women’s Studies/Gender Studies graduate students, faculty and
programme administrators on the following topics:

Academic Job Search Strategies in Women’s Studies

Applying to PhD Programmes in Women’s Studies
Crafting Successful SSHRC (Graduate) Applications
Feminist Theory/Theorizing Feminisms: The ‘Core’ Course
Getting an Academic Job with a Women’s Studies PhD
Graduate Women’s Studies: How are we Growing?
‘Growing’ Women’s Studies
Preparing an Academic CV
Professional Development in Women’s Studies: Hiring, Tenure and Promotion
‘Regionalizing’ Women’s Studies
The Role of Introductory Women’s Studies Courses
Teaching Introduction to Women’s Studies

Media

I have participated in the following media (print, radio and television) appearances related to
various research projects, and about Women’s and/Gender Studies regionally, and in Canada:

VOCM Radio, St. John’s, Newfoundland 2015

Weekend AM with Angela Antle, CBC Radio, St. John’s, Newfoundland 2015
On the Go with Ted Blades, CBC Radio, St. John’s, Newfoundland 2012
Research Matters, Faculty of Arts, Memorial University 2007, 2008
The Gazette, Memorial University 2008
CHRM (Campus) Radio, St. John’s, Newfoundland 2008
BBC Radio Ulster, 2007
Rogers Cable, St. John’s, Newfoundland 2007
CBC Radio, Corner Brook, Newfoundland 2007
Western Manitoba Communications, 2004
CBC News World, National, 2002
ATV News, 2002
CBC Radio, Halifax, Nova Scotia 1999

Membership in Professional Associations

Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada, 2012-present

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American Conference for Irish Studies, 2012-present
Canadian Irish Studies Association, 2003-present
National (US) Women’s Studies Association, 1993-2016
Women’s and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes, 1993-present

Other Community Activities

Contributor, Shalom Magazine, Atlantic Jewish Council. 2012-2013

Newfoundland Representative, Canada Israel and Jewish Affairs, Atlantic Jewish Council. 2012-
2013
Member-at-Large (elected), Executive Committee Member, Jewish Community Havura of
Newfoundland and Labrador. 2007-2008, 2011-2013
Member, Canadian Federation of University Women. 2011-present
Volunteer, St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival. 2008, 2009, 2010
Board Member, Planned Parenthood Metro Clinic. 1999-2006