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 Margaret Hobbs,
B.A. (Trent), M.A., Ph.D., (Toronto)
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x7085 Marg Hobbs has been a faculty member in Gender & Women’s Studies at Trent since 1990, and is a past Chair of the department. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Toronto (OISE), specializing in Canadian women’s history. Much of her research examines the history of women in relation to feminism, work, poverty, social policy, and welfare state development in Canada. Currently, she is researching feminist and agrarian activism in the prairies in the post-WW1 decades, while also collaborating with Carla Rice on an undergraduate gender and women’s studies textbook called The F Word: Gender and Women’s Studies in Canada. Marg has taught a range of courses in Women’s Studies, including Introduction to Women’s Studies, Feminist Critical Thought, Women, Health and Environment, Women, the Welfare State and Globalization, and History of Feminism in Canada. She also works with Master’s and PhD students in the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies. Marg was a winner of Trent University’s Distinguished Teaching Award for Educational Leadership & Innovation in Instruction, and also received a provincial award for Leadership in Faculty Teaching (LIFT). Marg is an advocate of feminist community-based research and education and was part of the founding management committee for the Trent Centre for Community-Based Education. She has worked in multiple capacities with women’s and anti-poverty organizations in Peterborough. She is past executive member of the Association of Community Legal Clinics of Ontario (ACLCO) and she is still active with the Peterborough Community Legal Centre. Undergraduate Teaching 2011-12:
Recent Publications: The F Word: Gender and Women’s Studies in Canada. Toronto: Women’s Press/Canadian Scholars’ Press, under contract Women’s Press/Canadian Scholars’ Press (co-edited with Carla Rice) The Woman Worker, 1926-1929. St. John's: Canadian Committee on Labour History/Ontario Workers' Arts and Heritage Council, 1999 (co-edited with Joan Sangster) “Reading Women’s and Gender Studies in Canada.” Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme. (forthcoming) Co-authored with Carla Rice. “Rethinking Women’s Studies: Curriculum, Pedagogy, and the Introductory Course.” Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal. Special Issue on Women’s Studies Pedagogy. 35, 2 (forthcoming). Co-authored with Carla Rice. The “Mainly for Women” Pages of The Western Producer, 1925-1939. Historical Primary Document Project for Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000, Special Canadian Issue edited by Lara Campbell, Tamara Myers, and Joan Sangster, 13, 2 (October 2009). (Introduction by Margaret Hobbs; Document project co-edited with Susan Wurtele) |
