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Professor Susan WurteleB.Sc. (Hons.) Trent University Research and Teaching Interests: Professor Wurtele teaches a range of courses including human geography and upper year courses on urban environments and feminist geographies. Her classes are dynamic involving small group seminars and opportunities for field work and alternative assignment structures. In addition to undergraduate teaching she is an active member of the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies where she is involved with students at both the M.A and Ph.D. level. Teaching Awards:
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Susan Wurtele's research focuses on themes of feminist and historical-cultural geography in the Canadian context. In particular she investigates processes of immigrant assimilation and acculturation and the transformation of Canadian society by immigrants in the 1920s and 1930s. She is also involved in a project investigating the role of immigrant handicraft work in this transformation and has recently begun a project focussing on the importance of the women's agrarian press in the Prairies during the inter-war years.