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Award in Gender Studies |
- 2010 – Shahrzad Mojab
- 2008 – Christine Overall, FRSC
- 2006 - Cecilia Benoit
- 2004 - Margaret Gillett
- 2002 - Micheline Dumont, MSRC
Top of Page2010 –Shahrzad Mojab
Scholar, teacher, and activist, Shahrzad Mojab is internationally known for her work on the impact of war, displacement, and violence on women’s learning and education. Her extensive empirical research in diasporic communities in Canada and Europe and the conflict zones of the Middle East has deepened our understanding of gender relations, patriarchy, culture, and fundamentalisms. A unique feature of Professor Mojab’s work is making knowledge accessible to public through the use of arts such as story-telling, dance, drama, painting and film.
2008 – Christine Overall, FRSC
Recognized as one of the world's leading scholars in feminist philosophy, Christine Overall is known internationally as one of the pioneers of feminist philosophy, particularly in the field of reproductive ethics. One of the most prominent feminist bioethicists writing on ethical and social policy issues related to human reproduction and reproductive technologies, her pioneering works have proven enormously influential in the field.
2006 - Cecilia Benoit
Department of Sociology, University of Victoria
Professor Benoit has conducted sociological research of major interest to scholars, policy makers, health and social care providers and community organizations for almost 30 years. Her research program, beginning with her pioneering research on the gendered underpinnings of maternity care systems in democratic societies, has consistently been sensitive to the way that intersections of gender, class, and ethnicity matter in the Canadian context.
2004 - Margaret Gillett
Dr. Margaret Gillett, William C. Macdonald Professor Emeritus of Education at McGill University, is a pioneer in Women's Studies in Canada. As the Founding Director of the Centre for Research and Teaching on Women (MCRTW) in McGill University, she initiated research, teaching and reflection on gender issues bearing on education. She has immensely enriched this field through a number of scholarly books and original publications. Also to be noted is her leadership role on many committees and national and international organizations promoting the cause of gender equity, social justice and opportunities for women. Another outstanding aspect of her career is the activism with which she transformed the landscape of gender and education at McGill and elsewhere.
2002 - Micheline Dumont, MSRC
With the Bird Commission's 1970 publication of her research on the life of women from New France through to modern French Canada, Micheline Dumont, MSRC, Professor Emeritus, Department of History and Political Science, Université de Sherbrooke, established herself as a pioneer in the study of Canadian women's history. She went on to teach the history of women at the Université de Sherbrooke (Quebec) from 1976 until her retirement in 1999. Prior to 1970, she had focussed her work on the writer, Laure Conan, and on the first Acadian missionaries. Her work also offers considerable reflection on the critical perspectives from which to view history. Throughout her career, Dumont was actively involved in work groups, academic conferences and scientific journals in Canada, France and Germany. As a rigorous historian, an innovative methodologist, an original and systematic researcher, an enlightened, passionate and fascinating teacher, and a highly cultured academic, she inspired generations of students to learn, think and write. As a member of the Clio Collective, she published, among other works, the outstanding Histoire des femmes au Québec depuis quatre siècles (1982, revised and updated in 1992; published in English in 1987 under the title Quebec Women: A History). In her most recently published book, Découvrir la mémoire des femmes (2001), she takes the perspective of the female historian faced with the history of women. Having always maintained ties with women's movements, she has also contributed to many local and provincial projects, and is regularly called upon by the media for her expertise.