Professor Alena Heitlinger

CC H 25,  Ext. 7616  E-mail aheitlinger@trentu.ca

Professor Heitlinger was born and grew up in Czechoslovakia, which she left after the Soviet invasion in August 1968. She obtained her B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology in the U.K., and came to Trent in 1975. Most of her research and publications have been comparative, focusing on a variety of gender, ethnic, and public policy issues.  In 1999-2000 she was the recipient of the Trent University Distinguished Research Award.  She has been twice the Chair of the Department (1985-88 and 1995-98). Her major hobbies are travel, hiking, skiing, swimming, movies and reading novels. She is married and both her sons are recent university graduates.

Teaching Areas:

Sociology of ethnicity, diasporic communities, migration, gender, health and illness, migration, travel and tourism, comparative analysis, social policy.    

Research Interests:

Ethnicity, gender, health, demographic and migration issues, professions, post-communist transition in East Central Europe, feminist movements.

General Areas of Thesis Supervision:

Sociology of ethnicity, migration, health, gender, social policies, postcommunist transition in East Central Europe.

 

Books:

In the Shadows of the Holocaust and Communism. Czech and Slovak Jews Since 1945 (New Brunswick, N.J :Transaction Publishers, 2006) 238 pp.

(ed) Émigré Feminism: Transnational Perspectives (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999), 333 pp.

Young Women of Prague (London: Macmillan Press, 1998),187 pp. (co-authored with Susanna Trnka)

Women's Equality, Demography and Public Policies: A Comparative Perspective (London: The Macmillan Press; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993), 383 pp.

Reproduction, Medicine and the Socialist State (London: The Macmillan Press; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987), 318 pp.

Women and State Socialism. Sex Inequality in the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia (London: The Macmillan Press;Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1979), 256 pp.