Recent Publications - Dr. Mary Ellen Donnan
Dr. Mary Donnan
Department of Sociology
Book Manuscript: Dr. Donnan is currently writing a book, Diversity in Homelessness: A Sustainable, Multi-scalar Strategy for Ending a Canadian Urban Crisis, for submission to McGill-Queen’s University Press (2009).
Textbook Chapter: Book chapter, “Making Change: Gender, Careers, and Citizenship” in Gender Relations in Canada: Intersectionality and Beyond by Janet Siltanen and Andrea Doucette. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Published Paper: "Affordable Housing and Social Sustainability in Canadian Cities" International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability. Volume 1, 2005 www.sustainability-journal.com
Published Chapter in Book: "Slow Advances: The Academy’s Response to Sexual Assault" in The Madwoman in the Academy: Forty Women Boldly Take on the Ivory Tower. Deborah Keahey and Deborah Schnitzer (Editors), Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2003. [This book won the 2004 Alberta Scholarly Book of the Year Award].
Published Article: "Citizenship is Powerful: Insights from the Parkland Conference" for the Parkland Post, newsletter of the Parkland Institute for Policy Alternatives, University of Alberta, Winter 1999.
Conference Paper: "One Crisis or Many Crises? Regional and Population Diversity in Homelessness" Sixth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organisations, Prato, Italy, July 11-14, 2006.
Conference Paper: "The Importance of Community Diversity in Responding to Homelessness in Canada’s Urban Centres". Annual Meetings of the Mid-South Sociological Association. Atlanta, Georgia, October 2005.
Conference Paper: "Affordable Housing and Social Sustainability in Canadian Cities" International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability. Honolulu, Hawaii, February 2005.
Conference Paper: "Civic Republicanism and the Perpetuation of Racial, Class and Gender Divides in Ottawa Ontario". Annual Meetings of the Mid-South Sociological Association. Biloxi, Mississippi, October 2004.
Conference Paper: "Ethics of Social Responsibility in Community versus Government Policy Discourse". Annual Meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association. San Francisco, California, April 2004.
Conference Paper: "Our Streets: Volunteers in the Struggle against Homelessness in Canada’s National Capital". Annual Meetings of the Mid-South Sociological Association. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, November 2003.
Conference Paper: "Restoring Citizenship’s Bottom Line: Volunteers Versus Public Policy on Homelessness in Ontario". Annual Meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association. Vancouver, British Columbia, April 2002.
Conference Paper: "Theorizing the Dynamics of Citizenship and Volunteering" Annual Meetings of the Canadian Sociological Association Meetings, Quebec City, May 2001.
Conference Paper: "International Initiatives of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women" for the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, 34th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association. Bishop’s University and the University of Sherbrooke, May 1999.
Conference Paper: "Child Services in Canada: New Inclusive Responses to a Divisive Issue" International Conference, Mothers and Daughters: Moving into the Next Millennium, York University September 1997.
Conference Paper: "Normalized Absence, Pathologized Presence: Aboriginal Women and Child Services Policies of the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women". 9th Annual Research Forum, Sociology Department, University of Alberta October, 1996.
