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Dr. Linda Kealey
Member of the Advisory Council

Academic and Employment Record

  • Degrees
    • B.A.  University of Toronto 1969 (Sociology)
    • B.L.S.  University of Toronto 1970 (Library Science)
    • M.A.  University of Toronto 1974 (History)
    • PhD.  University of Toronto 1982 (History)
  • Employment
    • Visiting Assistant Professor, MUN,1980-81
    • Assistant Professor, MUN, 1981-86
    • Associate Professor, MUN, 1986-
    • Head, Department of History, MUN 1994 - 1997, 1998-
  • Awards / Grants
    • University of Toronto Open Fellowship, 1975-76
    • 1976-77.
    • Canada Council, Doctoral Fellowship, 1977-78
    • 1978-79.
    • SSHRCC Post Doctoral Fellowship, 1981-82 (declined).
    • Vice-President's Research Grant, 1982.
    • SSHRCC Women and Work Strategic Grant, 1984-85.
    • Association for Canadian Studies Interregional Exchange grant, 1993
    • ISER Research Grant, "Girls in Service Project" (1993-94)
      (B. O’Dwyer, L. Kealey, B. Schrank)
    • Aid to Scholarly Publishing Programme Grant, for Enlisting Women in the Cause (1998)
    • Smallwood Centre, Research Grant, "Nursing and Midwifery in Twentieth Century Newfoundland: A Case Study of Myra Bennett." (1996)
    • SSHRCC International Travel Grant, 1987 (Wales)
    • SSHRCC International Travel Grant, 1987 (Finland)
    • SSHRCC International Travel Grant, 1990 (Scotland)
    • Summer Student Research Grant 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995
    • MUCEP Grants for Undergraduate Research
  • Appointments / Elections
    • Fellow Royal Historical Society (London, England), 1991-
    • Canadian Historical Review, Co-Editor (June 1994-97)
    • Board Member, Conference of Historical Journals (1996-99)
    • Editorial Board, Women’s History Project, "A Century Stronger"
    • (CD-ROM, Canadian Women’s History in the 20th Century)
    • Editors: Prof. Sharon Cook, Education, University of Ottawa
    • Kate O’Rourke, Archives of Ontario

Publications

  • Books
    • A Not Unreasonable Claim: Women and Reform in Canada, 1880s-1920s (Toronto: Canadian Women's Educational Press, 1979), Editor.
    • Beyond the Vote: Canadian Women and Politics (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989), co-edited with Joan Sangster. Author of one chapter.
    • Pursuing Equality: Historical Perspectives on Women in Newfoundland and Labrador (St. John's: ISER Books, 1993). Editor and author of introduction.
    • Enlisting Women for the Cause: Women, Labour and the Left in Canada, 1890-1920, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998)
  • Articles (R = Refereed)
    • J. Acton et. al, Women at Work, Ontario, 1850-1930 (Toronto: Canadian Women's Educational Press, 1974), Introduction, 1-11.
    • R. "Women's Work in the United States:  Recent Trends in Historical Research," Atlantis, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Spring 1979), 133-42.
    • R. "Canadian Socialism and the Woman Question 1900-14", Labour/Le Travail 13 (Spring 1984), 77-100.
    • R. "Punishment at Hard Labour:  Stephen Burroughs and the Castle Island Prison 1785-98" New England Quarterly, LVII, 2 (June 1984), 249-54.
    • R. "Patterns of Punishment: Massachusetts in the Eighteenth Century" American Journal of Legal History, XXX, No. 2 (April 86), 163-86.
    • "Women and Labour During World War I:  Women Workers and the Minimum Wage in Manitoba," in Mary Kinnear, ed., First Days, Fighting Days (Regina: Canadian Plains Research Centre, 1987), 76-99.
    • "'No Special Protection - No Sympathy': Women's Activism in the Canadian Labour Revolt of 1919," in Deian Hopkin and G.S. Kealey, (eds.) Class, Community and the Labour Movement in Wales and Canada, 1850-1930, Aberystwyth, 1989), 134-59.
    • "The Status of Women in the Historical Profession in Canada, 1989 Survey," Canadian Historical Review LXXII, 3 (Sept. 1991), 370-88.
    • "Crossing Borders: The Influence of American Women's History on the Writing of Canadian Women's History", Canadian Review of American Studies, 1992 Special Issue Part II, 279-300.
    • "Women's History, Gender History and Dichotomies" (with Franca Iacovetta), left history Vol. 3, No. 2 and Vol. 4, No.1 [Fall/Winter 95 and Spring/Summer 96], 221-37.
    • "Women and Wage Labour in Australia and Canada, 1880-1980" (with Raelene Frances and Joan Sangster) Labour/Le Travail 38 (Fall 1996) Honorable Mention, Hilda Neatby Prize, CHA, June 1997. (co-published as issue of Australian Labour History)
    • "Public and Private"; "Women’s History, North American" in D. R. Woolf, ed., Making Histories: A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing (New York: Garland, 1997)
    • "Feminism before World War I" in J.M. Bumsted, ed., Topics in Canadian History: Volume Two (Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford, 1997?)
    • "Canadian Women’s Identities in Recent History", Paper (invited) for the Coloquio Trinacional, "Las Mujeres al fin del Milenio en América del Norte", 14-17 Oct. 1996, Mexico City. [To be published in Spanish]
    • "Women and the Economy" chapter in Canada: Confederation to the Present, CD-ROM textbook (Prentice-Hall, 1998) [Rod MacLeod, Chair, Editorial Board]
  • Guest Editor - Journals
    • Editor, Special Issue on Women's History, Canadian Historical Review, LXXII, No. 4 (December 1991)
    • Editor/compiler, Women's Policy Office (Gov't. of NF & Labrador), Newsletter, October 1992. Women's History month issue.
  • Other
    • R. Hann et. al, Primary Sources in Canadian Working Class History 1860-1930 (Dumont Press, 1973), co-compiler, bibliography.
    • "Poverty and the Working Class in Toronto," National Museum of Man, in Canadian Visual History Series, with Gregory Kealey. (Ottawa, 1980)
    • Jill K. Conway with the assistance of Linda Kealey and Janet E. Schulte. The Female Experience in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century America, (N.Y. 1982). Annotated bibliography.
    • "Factors Affecting Women’s Labour Force Participation," Background Paper for the Newfoundland Royal Commission on Employment and Unemployment, 1985, 47 pp.
    • "Report on the Visit of Dr. Douglas Hay to Memorial University of Newfoundland" ACS Newsletter, 15, no. 2-3 (Summer-Fall 1993), p. 18
    • Annotated Bibliography of Women’s History Sources in Newfoundland Archives (St. John’s) 1996.
  • Book Reviews
    • BC Studies
    • Canadian Historical Review
    • Canadian Review of American Studies
    • Canadian Journal of History
    • Histoire Sociale/Social History
    • Labour/Le Travail

Lectures Presented at National and International Conferences

  • "Punishment of Criminal Offenders in 18th Century Massachusetts" Presented at the Annual Meeting of Canadian Historical Association (Halifax, 1981).
  • "Canadian Socialism and the Woman Question 1900-14" University of Winnipeg Symposium on the Winnipeg General Strike, 9-11 March 1983.
  • Discussant, "Historical Images of Women" session, 11-13 November 1983 at the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, Annual Conference, Vancouver.
  • "Women's Studies and Small Communities," Bermuda/Canada 1609-1984 Conference Bermuda, February 1984.
  • "Women and Labour During World War I: Women Workers and the Minimum Wage in Manitoba," presented at The Second Annual Canadian Studies Conference, "Women in Manitoba History," January 24-25, 1985, Winnipeg.
  • "Prairie Socialist Women and WWI: The Urban West." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, Winnipeg, 7 June 1986.
  • "Commentary: The Relevance of the American Social History Project for Canadian History." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, Winnipeg, 6 June 1986.
  • "'No Special Protection - No Sympathy': Women's Activism in the 1919 Canadian Labour Revolt." Paper presented at the Canadian-Welsh Labour History Conference, Gregynog, Wales, 27-29 April 1987.
  • "Women's Activism in the Finnish-Canadian Socialist Movement before 1920: Sanna Kannasto in context." Paper presented to "Women as Builders of Society" Conference, Kuopio, Finland, 26-30 August 1987.
  • "Facing the Contradictions: Socialist Women in Early Twentieth Century Canada," Paper presented to the J.S. Woodsworth Conference, 22-23 April 1988, Vancouver, B.C. (also presented as a public lecture at UNB, Fredericton, 14 March 1988).
  • "The Status of Women in the Historical Profession in Canada: 1989 Survey," report prepared for the Canadian Historical Association, 1990; presented as a paper at the Annual Meetings of CHA (Learned Societies), 27 May 1990, Victoria, B.C.
  • "Separation and Integration in Canadian History: The Case of Women's History," Paper presented to the Canadian Studies Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, 3-6 May 1990.
  • "Women's Labour Militancy in Canada, 1900-20." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the CHA (Kingston, Ont.), June 1991.
  • "Instituting Change for Women in Academe: The Case of Women in History," Lecture, Concordia University, January 1992.
  • "Facing Our Differences/Forging Alliances" panel presentation at "Teaching Women's History Challenge and Solutions" Conference, Trent, 20-22 August 1993.
  • "Crossing Borders: The Influence of American Women's History on the Writing of Canadian Women's History", Lecture, University of Calgary History Department, 15 October 1993.
  • Commentator, Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, "Women, Work, Change", Sept. 1995.
  • "Revisiting First Wave Feminism in Canada: The Politics of History", lecture presented to the Humanities Society, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, November 1995 and revised for presentation to Graduate Seminar, Department of History, January 1996.
  • Final version presented to Department of History (York and University of Toronto) Women’s History Colloquium (Nov. 1996).
  • "A Socialist Movement which does not attract the Women Cannon Live": Canadian Socialism Revisted," seminar presentation, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 20 March 1998.
  • "Only A Working Girl? Women’s Labour Activism in Canada c. 1900-20." Lecture to Sydney Branch, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, 27 March 1998.

Involvement in University Affairs

  • Department of History, Head, 1994-97, 1998-2001
  • Programme Supervisor of Women's Studies Minor, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1983-85, 1987-88. Acting Supervisor Winter Term 1994
  • Committees (Department) Policy Committee, 1983-84, 1987-88; 1992-
  • First Year Evaluation Committee, 1983-84
  • Promotions & Tenure Committee, 1981-82; 1984-1985; 1989-90; 1993-94.
  • Graduate Committee 1990-91.
  • Graduate Coordinator 1992-94
  • Committees (Arts) Faculty of Arts, Research Committee, 1984-85.
  • Women's Studies, 1983-; Women's Studies Executive Committee, 1992-94.
  • Committees (University) Chair, Review Committee on Affirmative Action 1989-93
  • Member, Senate Committee on Honorary Degrees, 1992-98 (renewed)
  • Committee to Review Graduate Programme, English Dept., Fall 93. School of Graduate Studies, Faculty Council, 1994-97. Appeals Committee, Graduate Studies. 1994-95; 95-96; 96-97

Editorial Activities

  • Advisory Board, Atlantis, 1978-95 (reorganized)
  • History Editor, Atlantis, 1991-95 (reorganized)
  • Editor, English Language Publications, Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, 1985-86 .
  • Member, Advisory Board, Network Foundation for Educational Publishing, 1984-92. (disbanded)
  • Member, Advisory Board, Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, 1986-93 (Board dismantled)
  • Board member, Canadian Historical Review, 1989-1992.
  • Chair, Board, Canadian Historical Review, 1992-1994.
  • Co-editor, Canadian Historical Review, 1994-1997.
  • Manuscript reviewer - McClelland and Stewart, University of Toronto Press, Acadiensis Press
  • Aid to Scholarly Publishing Programme, ms. reviewer, 1996
  • Killam Grants assessor, 1990
  • SSHRCC - grant reviewer since 1987 (Strategic Grants, Research Tools, etc.)

Organizational Activities

  • President, Canadian Women’s Studies Association, 1983-84. Member 1983-
  • Board Member, Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, 1982-85. Member 1982-
  • Secretary, CRIAW, 1984-85.
  • Member, International Travel Grants Committees, SSHRCC, 1983-86.
  • SSFC National Lobbying Network 1989-92; Women’s Issues Network 1994-96.
  • Canadian Historical Association, Council Member, 1987-90.
  • Member, Programme Committee, Canadian Historical Association, 1985 (Montreal), 1994 (Calgary), 1997 (St. John’s)
  • Chair, Canadian Committee on Women’s History (affiliated to CHA) 1990-91.
  • Consultant to Association for Canadian Studies, Heritage Test, 1990-91.
  • Chair, Corey Prize Committee (Canadian Historical Association), 1992.
  • Member, Nominating Committee (CHA), 1991-93.
  • Chair, Nominating Committee (CHA), 1992-93.
  • Member, Canadian Programme Committee for 18th International Congress of Historical Sciences (Montreal 1995).
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