Faculty & Contact - Bishop's University

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Faculty of the Sociology Department:

Contact Information is found in the BU Directory

Dr. Vicki Chartrand

Full Professor

BSSc. & MA (University of Ottawa), PhD. (Macquarie University, Sydney)

Dr. Chartrand is a Mama and Full Professor in the Sociology Department at Bishop’s University, Québec, located on the traditional territory of the Abenaki people. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa.

She is the founding Director of the Centre for Community-Engaged Justices – a research hub dedicated to collaborative and community-based approaches to justice. Her research examines the intersections of carceral and colonial systems, maps community justice ecologies, and develops community-engaged methodologies rooted in anti-colonial and anti-carceral praxis. With over two decades of experience, she has worked alongside women and children, Indigenous communities, and people in prison to advance justice through relational accountability and rewilding research.

Land Acknowledgement

I acknowledge that I live and work on the traditional territories of the Abenaki people. I acknowledge the wisdom and knowledge of the land and its custodians as a vital resource and energy for this world, for who I am, for how I raise my daughter, and for how she raises me. Pm8wzowinnoak Bishop’s kchi adalagakidimek aoak kzalziwi w8banakii aln8baïkik.

Dr. Chartrand has served as Principal Investigator on major national research projects, including a Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQ-SC) grant involving a 17-day, 10,000 km cross-country road trip and national media scan, mapping over 1000 Indigenous-led initiatives for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit (MMIWG2S) people. She has led the Unearthing Justices project – a SSHRC-funded partnership curating a living repository of community-based and Indigenous-led approaches to justice. She is also currently leading the How We Go Home project, a $1.4M Public Safety Canada project on Section 84 Indigenous community reintegration models.

She has been called to give expert reports and testimonies for legal cases, parliamentary and government studies, and commissions, including the Standing Committee on the Status of Women (2017), the Viens Commission (2018), the Indigenous Justice Strategy (2025), and expert testimony for a national class action concerning Canada’s Special Handling Unit, the country’s only supermaximum security prison (2025).

Dr. Chartrand has published widely, including Unsettling Colonialism in the Canadian Criminal Justice System (Athabasca University Press, 2023), numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and edited volumes on abolition, justice, and Indigenous-led responses to colonial violence. Her work has been featured in international journals such as American Historical Review, Incarceration, and Decolonization of Criminology and Justice.

In addition to academic publishing, she actively engages public audiences through op-eds, television and radio interviews, webinars, and public presentations. She also serves on the Editorial Boards of the Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research, Canadian Journal of Law and Justice, Indigeneity & Critical Theorizing and Decolonization of Criminology and Justice.

Dr. Chartrand’s scholarship and teaching have been recognized with several awards, including the Bishop’s University Research and Creative Activity Award (2022–2024), the Social Sciences Divisional Teaching Award (2018–2019), and nomination for the Dorothy Killam Award (2026–2028).

Select Publications

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Books

Chartrand, V., Llanes-Ortiz, G. & Miltsov, A. (Eds.) (Under Contract). Interventions in Justice: Re-Imagining, Re-Mapping and Re-Envisioning Possibilities for Justice. Routledge Press.

Chartrand, V. & Savarese, J. (Eds.) (2023). Unsettling Colonialism in the Canadian Criminal Justice System. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press.

Journal Issues

Chartrand, V. (Ed.) (2023). Indigenous and Racialized Justice (Guest editor). Canadian Criminal Justice Association Justice Actualités–Report, 37(3). Co-Editor (100%)

Anthony, T., Chartrand, V., & McIntosh, T. (Eds.) (2022). Special issue: Anti–colonial abolitionism. Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, 30(2).

Chartrand, V. (Ed.) (2020). Prisoners’ struggles: Prisons and COVID-19. Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, 29(1&2).

Lehalle, S., Chartrand, V., & Kilty, J. M. (Eds.) (2016). Special issue: Prison education. Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, 25(2).

Journal Articles

Chartrand, V. (In Press). Settler research in Indigenous country. Qualitative Inquiry.

Chartrand, V. & Ewert, J. (In Press). The Colonial Shadow of Incarceration. American Historical Review. Special Issue.

Moore, H., Brandariz, J. A., Chartrand, V., Turnbull, S., Kilty, J. M., Sozzo, M., & Moore, D. (2024). Cultures of transparency in carceral governance: Lessons across the global north/south divide. Incarceration, 5, 1–19.

Anthony, T., Chartrand, V., & McIntosh, T. (2022). An Anti–colonial approach to abolition: Building intentional relations. Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, 30(2), 3–9.

Anthony, T., & Chartrand, V. (2022). States of prison abolition: Covid-19 and anti–colonial and anti–racist organising. Justice, Power and Resistance, 5(1–2), 46–66.

Chartrand, V. (2022). Unearthing justices: Mapping 500+ Indigenous grassroots initiatives for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and Two Spirit+ people. Decolonization of Criminology and Justice, 4(1), 7–30.

Chartrand, V., & Foshay, S. (2022). Mobilizing Against Colonial Violence: Centering Indigenous Women–Led Initiatives for MMIWG2S+ People. The Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research, 11, 129–150.

Pranteau, S., McIntosh, T., Anthony, T., & Chartrand, V. (2022). An anti–colonial abolitionism: International context. Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, 30(2), 77–90.

Fayter, R., Mario, B., Chartrand, V., & Kilty, J. M. (2022). Surviving the pandemic on the inside: From crisis governance to caring communities. Canadian Journal of Sociology, 46(4), 37–65.

Chartrand, V. (2021). Abolition in the land known as Canada in the wake of COVID-19. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 33(1), 138–143.

Chartrand, V. (2020). Communities of Advocacy, Resources, and Supports in the Wake of COVID-19. Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, 29(1&2), 92–96.

Lampron, E., & Chartrand, V. (2020). Fallen feathers: Tracing the Canadian government’s responsibility in the deaths of seven Indigenous youths in Thunder Bay. Canadian Journal of Law and Justice, 2(1), 227–255.

Chartrand, V. (2019). Unsettled times: Indigenous incarceration and the links between colonialism and the penitentiary in Canada. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 61(3), 67–89.

Chartrand, V. & Piché, J. (2019). Abolition and pedagogy: Reflections on teaching a course on alternatives to penality, state repression, and social control. Contemporary Justice Review, 22(1), 23–42.

Chartrand, V. & Lampron, E. (2019). The art of justice. Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, 28(2), 171–174.

Chartrand, V. (2016). I’m not your carceral other. Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, 25(1), 61–62.

Chartrand, V. (2015). Landscapes of violence: Women and Canadian prisons. Champ pénal/Penal field, VII, Online Open Access.

Book Chapters

Chartrand, V. & Olalere, K. (Accepted). The problem with justice: A cross–border case study of colonial violence and possibilities for justice in Nigeria and Canada. In T. Anthony, M. Bhatia, K. Pillay & J. Williams (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Racial Injustice. UK: Springer–Nature and Palgrave–Macmillan.

Anthony, T., Chartrand, V., & Van Styvendale, N. (Accepted). Three sisters: On the ontology of community–engaged scholarship. In S. Fabian, M. Felices–Luna & J. Kilty (Eds.), New Qualitative Methods. Vancouver: UBC Press.

Pranteau, S., McIntosh, T., Anthony, T., & Chartrand, V. (Accepted). Abolitionnisme anticolonial. In J. Bourdages, C. Chesnay, S. Lafleur & C. Rioux (Eds.), Esprit abolitionniste. Montréal: Les Éditions de la rue Dorion.

Anthony, T. & Chartrand, V. (2023). Rise up: Activist criminology, colonial injustice and abolition. In V. Canning, G. Martin & S. Tombs (Eds.), Emerald International Handbook of Criminology (pp. 249–264). London: Emerald Publishing.

Chartrand, V. (2023). The quotidian violence of incarcerating Indigenous people in the Canadian state: Why reform is not an option for decolonization. In C. Cunneen, A. Deckert, A. Porter, J. Tauri & R. Webb (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook on Decolonizing Justice (pp. 256–266). London: Routledge.

Chartrand, V. & Savarese, S. (2023). Introduction. In V. Chartrand & J. Savarese (Eds.), Unsettling the Canadian Criminal Justice System (pp. 3–12). Edmonton: Athabasca University Press.

Savarese, J. & Chartrand, V. (2023). Conclusion. In V. Chartrand & J. Savarese (Eds.), Unsettling the Canadian Criminal Justice System (pp. 397–404). Edmonton: Athabasca University Press.

Chartrand, V. (2022). Power and place: Mapping Indigenous grassroots organizing and mobilizing for MMIWG2S+ people. In D. Silva & M. Deflam (Eds.), Diversity in Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies (pp. 83–98). UK: Emerald Publishing.

Chartrand, V. (2021). Grassroots justices: Lessons from communities of murdered and disappeared Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit+ people. In S. Pasternak, K. Walby & A. Stadnyk (Eds.), Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada (pp. 144–153). Toronto: Between the Lines.

Chartrand, V. (2021). Broken system (Republished). In S. Hick & J. Stokes (Eds.), Social Welfare in Canada: Inclusion, Equity, and Social Justice, 4th Edition (pp. 320–321). Toronto: Thomson Educational Publishing Inc.

Chartrand, V. & Rougier, N. (2021). Carceral other and severing of people, place and land: Redefining the politics of abolition through an anti–colonial framework. In M. J. Cole & M. Nagel (Eds.), Contesting Carceral Logic: Knowledge and Praxis in Penal Abolition (pp. 22–35). Abingdon: Routledge.

Book Reviews & Reports

Chartrand, V. (2024). Expert report on Indigenous incarceration and the Special Handling Unit. Fineday et als. c. Procureur général du Canada – 500–06–000917–183. Québec Superior Court.

Chartrand, V. (Ed.) (2023). Editorial: Indigenous and racialized justice. Canadian Criminal Justice Association Justice Actualités–Report, 37(3), 4–5.

Jones, E. & Chartrand, V. (2023). Just futures: Race, nation, and the state – a conversation with El Jones & Vicki Chartrand. Canadian Criminal Justice Association Justice Actualités–Report, 37(3), 6–10.

Chartrand, V. (2023). Book review – Prison Trust by Sabina Vaught, Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, and Jeremiah Chin. Historical Studies in Education, 35(2), 104–108.

Op–Eds and News Articles

Chartrand, V. (2024, December 18). Murray Sinclair’s vision to improve Indigenous justice remains unrealized. Policy Options.

Chartrand, V. (2022, September 28). Opinion: Indigenous incarceration trends and failed promises – why more reform is not a good justice strategy. Hill Times – Policy Briefing.

Chartrand, V. (2021, July 28). Prisons are not a pathway to healing and reconciliation. Australian Institute of International Affairs.

Chartrand, V., Moore, D., Brandariz, J. A., & Sozzo, M. (2021, March 8). COVID-19 pandemic exposes how little we know about prison conditions globally. The Conversation.

Chartrand, V. (2021, Spring). Abolition in the wake of COVID-19 – it takes a community. The View Magazine.

Chartrand, V. (2019, June 12). MMIWG: The spirit of grassroots justice lives at the heart of the struggle. The Conversation. Chartrand, V. (2018, February 18). Broken system – why is a quarter of Canada’s prison population Indigenous? The Conversation.

Dr. Steven Cole

Full Professor

Dr. Cole specializes in sociological theory. An award-winning teacher, Dr. Cole teaches three courses in theory (SOC 221, 222, and 490) in addition to Introduction to Sociology and Social Problems. His courses aim to simultaneously define and demarcate Sociology as a social science while helping students see their world from a distinctly Sociological Perspective.

Cole, Steven. (in progress) “The Simulation and Disappearance of ‘Real Sound.’”

(2018). “Use value as a cultural strategy against over-commodification: A Durkheimian Analysis of Craft Consumption within Web Groups.” Sociology. Vol. 52(5) 1052–1068.

(2011). “The Prosumer and the Project Studio. The Battle for Distinction in the Field of Music Recording.” Sociology. 45:3 (June). pp. 447-463.

(2010). “Re-examining Baudrillard’s Reality” (Russian Translation). Khora. No ½(11/12). 22 pages.

(2010). “Re-examining Baudrillard’s Reality.” International Journal of Baudrillard Studies. Volume 7:2 (July). 22 pages.

(2006). Introduction to the Study of Society: Learners Guide. Norquest College Press. 90 pages.

(2006). Book Review. “Solidifying Fragments: Review of Jean Baudrillard’s
Fragments.” International Journal of Baudrillard Studies. Volume 3:1 (January).

Arturo Esquivel

Assistant Professor

Dr. Genner Llanes-Ortiz

Assistant Professor

Dr. Alex Miltsov

Associate Professor

B.A. (Concordia University), M.A. (University of New Brunswick), Ph.D. (McGill University)

Dr. Miltsov joined the department in 2020. He specializes in work and occupations, digital media and mass communication studies, and quantitative research methods. His research investigates the socio-economic and cultural effects of digital technology use and media representation.

Alex’s work spans several research areas. His main line of research looks at the use of digital technologies in the context of workplace resistance, time appropriation, and “slacking”. He combines cross-national surveying and in-depth interviewing methods to analyze how the digitization of the workplace affects workers’ experiences and interactions, their private and social lives, and their work/life balance. His second area of research involves a Big Data project on the extent and effects of gender- and race-based representations in print and digital media. In addition, Alex examines the factors that influence people’s trust in news and their ability to detect fake news. For this study, he collaborates with an international and multidisciplinary team of scholars.

Journal Articles

Bryanov, Kirill, Reinhold Kliegl, Olessia Koltsova, Alex Miltsov, Sergei Pashakhin, Alexander Porshnev, Yadviga Sinyavskaya, Maksim Terpilovskii & Victoria Vziatysheva. (2023). “What Drives Perceptions of Foreign News Coverage Credibility? A Cross-National Experiment Including Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine.” Political Communication. 40(2), 115-146. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2023.2172492

2022 Top Paper Award, The Political Communication Division of the International Communication Association (ICA PolComm)

Miltsov, Alex. (2021). “Resistance, Recuperation, or Deviance? The Meaning of Personal Internet Use at Work.” New Technology, Work and Employment 36 (3), 390–408. https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12195

Shor, Eran and Alex Miltsov. (2020). “The price of greater representation: A cross-national analysis of parliamentary representation and media coverage sentiment for women.” Newspaper Research Journal. 41(4), 455–468. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739532920968219

Shor, Eran, Arnout van de Rijt, and Alex Miltsov. (2019). “Do Women in the Newsroom Make a Difference? Coverage Sentiment toward Women and Men as a Function of Newsroom Composition.” Sex Roles 81(1-2), 44-58. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-018-0975-8

Shor, Eran, Arnout van de Rijt, Alex Miltsov, Vivek Kulkarni, and Steven Skiena. (2015). “A Paper Ceiling: What Explains the Sex-Ratio Inequality in Printed News Coverage?” American Sociological Review 80(5), 960–984. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122415596999 [PDF]

In press Shor, E. and Miltsov, A. The price of greater representation: A cross-national analysis of parliamentary representation and media coverage sentiment for women. Forthcoming in Newspaper Journal Research.

Shor, E., van de Rijt, A., & Miltsov, A. (2019). Do women in the newsroom make a difference? Coverage sentiment toward women and men as a function of newsroom composition. Sex Roles, 81(1-2), 44-58. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-018-0975-8

Shor, E., van de Rijt, A., Miltsov, A., Kulkarni, V., & Skiena, S. (2015). A Paper Ceiling: Explaining the Persistent Underrepresentation of Women in Printed News. American Sociological Review, 80(5), 960–984. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122415596999

2017 CITAMS Best Paper Award (The Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association)

Book Chapters

Miltsov, Alex. (2022). “Researching TikTok: Themes, Methods, and Future Directions.” In: A. Quan-Haase, and L. Sloan (eds) The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods, 2nd Edition. SAGE, 664-676, https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529782943.n46

Published Conference Proceedings

Porshnev, Alexander, Alex Miltsov, Tetyana Lokot, and Olessia Koltsova. (2021). “Effects of Conspiracy Thinking Style, Framing and Political Interest on the Accuracy of Fake News Recognition by Social Media Users: Evidence from Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine”. In: Meiselwitz G. (eds) Social Computing and Social Media: Experience Design and Social Network Analysis. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12774. Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland, 341–357. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77626-8_23

Porshnev, Aleksandr and Alex Miltsov. (2020). “The Effects of Thinking Styles and News Domain on Fake News Recognition by Social Media Users: Evidence from Russia”. In: Meiselwitz G. (eds) Social Computing and Social Media. Design, Ethics, User Behavior, and Social Network Analysis. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12194. Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland, 305–320. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49570-1_21

Encyclopedia Articles

Miltsov, Alex. “Social Networking Sites.” In Turner, B. (eds). The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Wiley-Blackwell, West Sussex, UK, 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118430873.est0756

Miltsov, A. (2017). Social Networking Sites. In Turner, B. (eds). The Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118430873.est0756

Media Appearances

Online Interview. Cwiklinski, P. (2017). The Reality of Personal Internet Use at Work. OfficeSpace Blog, August 14, 2017

Radio Interview. SHIFT. (2012) NB Study of Internet and Well-Being. CBC New Brunswick, March 22, 2012
https://www.cbc.ca/shift/2012/03/22/nb-study-of-internet-and-well-being/

Retired Professors:

Dr. Mary Ellen Donnan

Professor Emeritus

Mary Ellen recently retired after 23 years of teaching. She continues to do research and writing on social inequality. This includes collaboration on a SSHRC funded project about Organizational Strategies to Address Homeless: lessons learned from 3 medium-sized Canadian Cities.

The focus of my research and teaching is social inequality in a context of Canada’s rich and deep diversity. A compelling understanding of social inequality comes from looking at the deep roots of homelessness in Canada. This inquiry began from a contemporary political economy framework addressing identity and exclusion from the benefits of living on Canada’s wealthy, verdant lands in the predominantly neo-liberal context of the last three decades. To do justice to the issues, the scope of my work includes struggles rooted in: Indigeneity, femininity and anti-racism as well as anti-poverty efforts.

I am currently writing and researching in two areas. I am following up on my homelessness book from a couple of years ago with analysis of services in Sherbrooke in support of people who are homeless. It is part of a larger collaborative research project about Organizational Changes to Address Homelessness in Three Medium Sized Cities which is funded from a SSHRCH Insight Grant. Accessibility has been another area of interest in recent years. That was a collaboration between researchers across the Maple League Universities to uncover accessibility challenges in our institutions as well as collect and share strategies for better meeting the needs of all members of the university communities.

Book

Donnan, M.E. 2016. The Shattered Mosaic: How Canadian Social Structures Cause Homelessness. Vernon, B.C. J. Charlton Publishers.

Papers and Chapters

Avril Aitken, Mary Ellen Donnan, Jean Manore 2020. Responding to the Findings of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Case Study of Barriers and Drivers for Change in an Undergraduate University. International Journal of Higher Education 28(1) 97-111 https://cgscholar.com/bookstore/works/responding-to-the-findings

Donnan, M.E. 2020, Aitken, A., Manor, J. (accepted) “If not here, where? Making decolonization a priority at an undergraduate university” chapter accepted, “Decolonizing the Academy”, S. Cote-Meek and T. Moeke-Pickering, editors. Canadian Scholars Press

Donnan, M.E. 2016. “Domicide and Indigenous Homelessness in Canada” 2016. Journal of Sociology and Social Work Volume 4 no. 2:38-52. DOI: 10.15640/jssw.v4n2a5 available online: http://jsswnet.com/vol-4-no-2-december-2016-abstract-5-jssw

Donnan, M.E. 2016.“Using Polyversal Feminist Theory to Analyse Homelessness in Toronto” Canadian International Journal of Social Sciences and Education. January Volume 5 pages 430-441.

Donnan, M.E. 2014. “Life after Neoliberalism in Canada: How Policy Creates Homelessness and How Citizenship Models Fail to Provide Solutions” International Journal of Arts and Sciences 2014.

Donnan, M.E. 2008. “Making Change: Gender, Careers and Citizenship” pages 134-171 in, Gender Relations in Canada: Intersectionality and Beyond by Janet Siltanen and Andrea Doucette. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Donnan, M.E. 2005. “Affordable Housing and Social Sustainability in Canadian Cities” International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability. Volume 1, 2005 http://www.sustainability-journal.com.

Donnan, M.E. 2003. “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 Alberta Scholarly Book of the Year Award.

Conference Papers Presented

E.Austen, K. Aubrect, C. Bruce, J. Dryden, ME. Donnan 2021.“ Accessibility as Collaborative Practice: What Does it Mean to Be an Accessible Campus?” Maple League Universities Better Together series. Dec 11

K. Aubrect, E. Austen, C. Bruce, J. Dryden, ME. Donnan 2021. “Collaborating for Access in Higher Education” Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion and Disability, Society for Disability Studies Conference April 17- 20th (online)

Aubrect, K, Austen, E., Bruce, Dryden, J., Donnan, M.E. 2021.“More than Compliance, Collaborating for Accessibility in Maple League Universities” Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education annual meetings May 30-June 1.

Donnan, M.E., Manore, J. (2019). Responding to the Findings of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Case Study of Barriers and Drivers for Change at a Small Undergraduate Institution. Queen’s University Belfast, U.K. 26th Annual Conference on Learning.

Aitken, M.E. Donnan, Manore, J. 2018 “Decolonization and the Academy” Quebec Past and Present: Annual Colloquium on Quebec Studies Bishop’s University.

Aitken, M.E. Donnan, J. Manore. 2017. “Higher Education, the 13 Principles and Indigenous Peoples: Putting words into action at Bishop’s” The Struggle for Social and Environmental Rights: Brazil and Canada in Solidarity”. International Conference, Bishop’s University. Sherbrooke QC.

Donnan, M.E. 2017. “Moving Towards AntiColonial Positions in Partnership” presented at: Indigenous Peoples- University Relations: Are Partnerships a Path to Reconciliation? Colloquium at Bishop’s University.

Donnan, M.E. 2017. “Domicide and Indigenous Homelessness in Canada” National Conference on Ending Homelessness. London Ontario.

Donnan, M.E. 2016. “How Political Neglect and Racialization Deepen Social Inequality in Toronto” Social Inequality and Policy Implications session, Canadian Sociological Association Meetings, Calgary, Alberta.

Donnan, M.E. 2015. “Polyversal feminism can deconstruct homelessness in Toronto” Keynote address at International Conference on Arts, Social Sciences, Economics and Education.

Donnan, M.E. 2014. “Life After Neoliberalism in Canada: How Policy Creates Homelessness and Citizenship-Models Limit Solutions.” International Journal of Arts and Sciences Conference. Paris.

Donnan, M.E. 2014. “Inadequate Housing of Aboriginal People in Winnipeg with Low-Incomes” Canadian Sociology Association Meetings. St. Catherine’s Ontario.

Dr. Cheryl Gosselin

Full Professor

Dr. Cheryl Gosselin has been teaching in Sociology, Women’s Studies and Classics, at Bishop’s since 1990. While doing so she completed her Doctoral Thesis in 2003: Vers l’avenir. Quebec Women’s Politics Between 1945 and 1967: Feminist, Maternalist, and Nationalist Links. Her teaching includes Canadian and Quebec Societies, several courses in the area of Social Justice (including race, ethnicity, sexualities, women and globalization and gender), and theory and methodology.

Dr. Gosselin’s research interests include Quebec women’s history and feminism, and the documentation of women’s oral histories from the Eastern Townships. She has received several grants for this work from the Eastern Townships Research Centre. Dr. Gosselin also sits on the Board of Directors of the Lennoxville and District Women’s Centre and the Eastern Townships Research Centre.

Dr. Gosselin’s PhD dissertation, entitled VERS L’AVENIR: Québec Women’s Politics Between 1945 and 1967: Feminist, Maternalist and Nationalist Links, focused on the political and social activism of Quebec women. It explored the links between the women’s movement and nationalism in Quebec. The research revealed how women’s groups used the nationalist causes of Quebec’s Quiet Revolution to advance their own gendered interests, such as demanding social and political equality, welfare rights for mothers, and more working opportunities for married women. Far from being incompatible, feminism and nationalism combined to allow women to take part in the social mobilization processes at work during the 1950s and 1960s in Quebec.

Dr. Gosselin’s other areas of research involve the lives of English-speaking women in the Eastern Townships. Using oral testimonies, she is studying the lives of women from the past as well as the present and their work to effect social change to improve women’s status. She has studied the experiences of some of the first female students to graduate from Bishop’s, the working conditions of schoolteachers in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, volunteerism among churchwomen, and the social engagements of local branches of the Women’s Institutes and the Cercles de Fermières. Her most recent project explores how globalization and economic restructuring are affecting the socioeconomic status and well-being of Eastern Townships women.

Book

“Vers l’Avenir: Feminist, Maternalist and Nationalist Ideas in Québec Women’s Organizations, 1945-1967“, forthcoming, McGill-Queen’s University Press in the fall of 2009.

Book Chapter

“They Let Their Kids Run Wild: The Policing of Aboriginal Mothering in Québec”, in D. Memee Lavell-Harvard and Jeannette Corbiere Lavell (Eds), Until Our Hearts Are On the Ground: Aboriginal Mothering, Oppression, Resistance and Rebirth, Toronto: Demeter Press, 2006: 196-206.

Current Book (research in progress)

I have begun a book about the Lennoxville and District Women’s Centre. It explores the 25 year history of the Centre and its role as advocate for English-speaking women’s rights in Québec’s Eastern Townships. The book will consist of interviews with members, a project funded by the ETRC in the summer of 2004, and a content analysis of the Centre’s archives. I plan to expand this into a research project that explores women who are part of minority language groups throughout Canada and how this marginalized status affects their activism.

Journal Articles

“Remaking Waves: The Québec Women’s Movement in the 1950s and 1960s”, Canadian Women’s Studies, Accepted and forthcoming in 2007.

With Caroline Viens, “Thinking globally, acting locally: Participation of Anglophone Third Agers in Quebec’s Estrie Region”. Submitted and accepted for publication in upcoming volume of Journal of the Eastern Townships, (JETS).

“Maternal Commitments to the Nation: Maternalist Groups at Work in Québec: 1945-1960”, Journal of The Association for Research on Mothering: Mothering and Feminism, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2, Winter-Summer 2006.

“Assessing the Needs of Rural, Anglophone Women in Québec: The RONA Project”, Canadian Women’s Studies, 24(4), Summer 2005.

“Lennoxville and District Women’s Centre Archives” in Journal of the Eastern Townships, (JETS), no.25, Fall 2004. (not peer reviewed).

With C. Viens, “From the Church Kitchen to the Church Boardroom: Women’s Continuing Quest for Gender Recognition” Journal of the Eastern Townships, Number 16, (Spring 2000).

Book Reviews

Reviewer for S’unir pour être plus fort: le Conseil des femmes members de la Chambre de commerce du District de Montréal, 1956-1971, for the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association.

Review of Sev’er, Aysan, Fleeing the House of Horrors: Women Who Have Left Abusive Partners, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002, Canadian Woman Studies, Vol. 23, nos. 3/4, Spring/Summer, 2004.

Recent Conference Papers Given

with Caroline Viens, “Community Involvement of Anglophone Seniors in the Eastern Townships”, presented at Eastern Townships Research. Centre Conference – Glocal Rural: The Changing Cultural Landscapes of the Eastern Townships, November 3-4, 2006, Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, QC.

“Tools for Life: Helping Young Mothers Break the Cycle of Despair”, presented at the 10th Anniversary Conference of the Association for Research on Mothering, The Mother Lode, October 26-29, 2006York University, Toronto, Ontario

“The Policing of First Nations Mothering by the Québec State: A Case Study”, presented at the 9th Annual Conference of the Association for Research on Mothering, Mothering, Race, Ethnicity, Culture and Class, October 20-23, 2005, York University, Toronto, Ontario.

“This Bridge We Call the Classroom: Our Experiences of Trans-ing Women’s Studies”, presented to the Canadian Association of Women’s Studies at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Western University, London Ontario, May 29-31, 2005.

“Maternal Commitments to the Nation: Maternalists Groups at Work in Québec During the 1950s and 1960s”, presented at the 8th Annual Conference of the Association for Research on Mothering, Mothering and Feminism, October 22-24, 2004 York University, Toronto, Ontario.

“The Inutility of the Wave Concept for Studying the Quebec Women’s Movement in the 1950s”, presented to the Canadian Association of Women’s Studies at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 30-June 2, 2004.

“Vers l’avenir: Quebec’s Women’s Politics Between 1945 and 1967: Feminist, Maternalist and Nationalist Links”, presented at the conference Feminism and the Making of Canada: Historical Reflections, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, May 7-9, 2004.