Participating Programs

The following programs participate in the collaborative master’s program: counselling and spirituality (Saint Paul University), criminology, education, English, globalization and international development, history, human kinetics, law, Lettres françaises, music, nursing, philosophy, political science, public administration, religious studies, and sociology. Please refer to the website of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (FGPS) for further information on the graduate programs of each of these disciplines.

The professors included in the list below are members of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. This means that they are authorized to supervise or co-supervise theses. A complete list of the faculty and staff members associated with the program can be found at http://www.sciencessociales.uottawa.ca/womenst/eng/index.asp

ABELL, Jennie, Associate Professor
Feminist legal theory; women and international human rights; women and violence; law and poverty; legal aid; criminal law

AHMED, Rukhsana, Assistant Professor
Health communication; interpersonal and intercultural communication; gender and communication; communication and development

ANDERSON, Emma, Associate Professor
European-Aboriginal religious contact in colonial Canada; North American religious history; aboriginal religions; post-Tridentine French catholicism; marian apparitions; religion in contemporary Canada

ANDREW, Caroline P., Distinguished University Professor
Urban development; women and politics; municipal politics; urban politic; intergovernmental relations in Canada; social policies (municipal); women (access to public services); management of diversity; voluntary sector

BACKHOUSE, Constance, Full Professor
Criminal law; human rights; legal history; and women and the law

BAILEY, Jane, Associate Professor
Research related to the potential for regulation of internet hate speech; ongoing research focuses on the impact of evolving technology on significant public commitments to equality rights; freedom of expression and multiculturalism

BARANYI, Stephen, Associate Professor
Peacebuilding; security sector reform and fragile states; Canada’s international policies; UN and regional organisations, peace and security roles

BEAMAN, Lori, Full Professor
Religion in Canadian society; social and cultural theory; critical legal studies

BEAUCHESNE, Line, Full Professor
Community Policing; women professionals in penal law; impact of drugs policies on prevention and treatment strategies; philosophy of law

BLAIR, Jennifer, Assistant Professor
Canadian literature and cultural studies; Critical theory; Literature and architecture

BOUCLIN, Suzanne, Assistant Professor
The institutionalized regulation of people who are street-involved and homeless, performance and performativity in legal pedagogy, feminist aesthetics, law and popular culture, and the criminal regulation of vulnerable groups.

BOURGEAULT, Ivy, Cross-appointment
Health professions/human resources; health policy; medical sociology; gender and health; maternity/reproductive health care; comparative health systems; migration; complementary and alternative medicine;, qualitative health research methods

BOURQUE, Dominique, Associate Professor
The un/marking of sex categories; French feminist theories and practices; literature; art and the fringe; feminism; lesbianism and the notion of exile; sexuality; arts and politics; dialogism and intertextuality; Monique Wittig

BROWN, Stephen, Associate Professor
Democracy and democratization; African and Latin American politics; Foreign Aid; Conflict prevention; Political violence; North-South relations; Politics of sexuality

BRUCKERT, Christine, Associate Professor
Criminological theory; erotic dance; release and reintegration from prison, sex work

BURNS, Lori, Full Professor
Music theory and analysis; 20th century theory; gender studies in music; popular music; music and text

CAMPBELL, Kathryn, Associate Professor
Aboriginal justice issues; miscarriages of justice; youth justice

CARDINAL, Linda, Full Professor
Citizenship debates; relationship between law; history and politics, issues of modernity and identity Québec; Ireland and United Kingdom; governance of minority languages; Canada-Europe; francophones outside Québec; women and minorities; history of political ideas in Canada

CODERRE, Cécile, Full Professor
Feminists movements, Québec and Francophone women outside Québec; production and reproduction of gender relations; violence against women; social policies concerning families; employment equity

COOK, Sharon, Full Professor
Women's history; educational history; women and educational pressure groups; women and evangelical religion; gender issues in education; history of health education; including anti-alcohol and anti-tobacco

CORRIVEAU, Patrice, Assistant Professor
Socio-historic of suicide in Quebec; Online juvenile pornography; Street gangs and juvenile prostitution; Adult prostitution (female and male); Homosexuality and homophobia; Criminalization of sexuality

CRAIG, Béatrice, Full Professor
Socio-economic and socio-cultural impacts of the emergence of industrial capitalism on Atlantic societies

DALLAIRE, Christine, Associate Professor
Sports and identity; minority francophone communities; youth; cultural studies; discourse analysis; minorities and games; state; health

DENIS, Ann, Emeritus Professor
New information technologies and minority groups (women, minority francophones); sociology of education, women; women and development; women and State policies (Canada and the Caribbean); women and globalization; immigrant women from the Caribbean; citizenship; immigrants / ethnic and race relations; paid and unpaid work

DIONNE, Anne-Marie, Associate Professor
Family aspects that impact the development of children's literacies; specifically in disadvantaged or multicultural communities

DROLET, Marie, Associate Professor
Collaboration between parents and schools; current practice geared towards children and adolescents;, Francophone youth in minority settings; implementation of change within social work practice; questions arising from family-centred intervention

DUMAS, Alexandre, Associate Professor
Sociology of bodily practices; the theory of Pierre Bourdieu applied to physical activity and sports; the relation to the body of adolescents and older adults; contemporary discourses on anti-aging

FORTIER, Michelle, Full Professor
Physical activity behavioral counseling interventions; determinants of physical activity adoption and maintenance; motivation/self-determination; social influences

FOSTER, Angel, Associate Professor
Emergency contraception; Abortion; Health professions training; Identifying and address the reproductive health needs of vulnerable populations

FOTH, Thomas, Assistant Professor
Nursing history and discourse analysis, Ethics, Actor-network theory, Subjectification processes and nursing, Critical theory and "Frankfurt School", Queer theories and postcolonial theories, Professionnalisation

FOURNIER, Pascale, Associate Professor
Comparative family law; Islam and Judaism in Europe and North America; legal regulation of culture; multiculturalism, religion and gender

FRIGON, Sylvie, Full Professor
Women, criminalization and imprisonment; the sociology of the body in prison; violent women; the social and penal reintegration of women in conflict with the law, the experience and management of health (physical and mental) of women in prison; artistic manifestations on/in prison (ex: literature, theatre and dance)

GILES, Audrey, Associate Professor
Aboriginal women's involvement in leisure pursuits (e.g., sport, recreation, physical activity); Dene games, Arctic winter games; NWT aquatics program; Alberta's future leaders program; feminist poststructural ethnography

GOLDENBERG, Naomi, Full Professor
Psychoanalysis; women and religion; cultural studies

GRANDENA, Florian, Assistant Professor
Contemporary french cinema in the french republican context and the new global order; french / francophone queer cinema; impact of digital technology on film aesthetics and narrative

HEAP, Ruby, Full Professor
Women's history: history of education and of the professions in 19th and 20th century Canada

HOLMES, Dave, Full Professor
Critical theory; post-structuralism; queer theory; governmentality; social control; forensic psychiatry; sexuality; public health.

HOTTE, Lucie, Full Professor
Théories de la réception; littérature franco-ontarienne; littérature québécoise contemporaine

IBRAHIM, Awad, Full Professor

JACKMAN, Martha, Full Professor
Droit constitutionnel; problèmes juridiques liés à la protection des femmes et des groupes défavorisés

JAYA S., Peruvemba, Assistant Professor
Intercultural and cross cultural communication, organizational and interpersonal communication, gender diversity and multiculturalism in the workplace, qualitative research methodologies, pedagogy issues especially in cross cultural and international education

JOHNSON, Holly, Associate Professor
Intimate partner violence and sexual violence; including prevention; criminal justice responses; and methods of measurement; feminist theory and gender theory

JOUBERT, Lucie, Full Professor
Théorie féministe; littérature québécoise contemporaine; roman français au féminin; théories de l'ironie et de l'humour

LAMARCHE, Lucie, Full Professor
Droits de la personne

LAPERRIÈRE, Hélène, Associate Professor
Community nursing; community evaluation; partnership state/popular civil society; collection action; formation of health professionals from minorities; care and cooperative housing; HIV/AIDS; popular education in health; Latin America, systematization of experiences; collective research and volunteering.

LAPIERRE, Simon, Assistant Professor
Domestic violence; Child abuse and neglect; Motherhood and mothering; Child and family social work, Feminist theories and practices

LAVIOLETTE, Nicole, Associate Professor
International human rights; international humanitarian law; and the rights of refugees

LECK, Joanne, Associate Professor
Workplace violence; employment equity; mentoring; managing diversity

LIPPEL, Katherine, Full Professor
Droit de la santé et de la sécurité du travail; droit social (régimes étatiques d'indemnisation); droit et sciences de la santé

MAGNET, Shoshana, Assistant Professor
Independent video and film; criminalization of poverty; new technologies and prisons/crime; feminist media studies; culturel studies; Canadian studies; border theory; history of science and technology

MARGOLIS, Rebecca, Associate Professor
Canadian Yiddish culture; Yiddish language and literature; Canadian Jewish history

MARTINEZ, Andrea, Full Professor
Gender; Equity and international development; Women, micro-credit and empowerment; Sexual and reproductive health

MASSICOTTE, Marie-Josée, Assistant Professor
International relations/international political economy; multilateralism and international institutions; globalization and global governance; trade and economic integration, comparative politics: the Americas; Latin America; Mexico; Brazil; social movements civil society; NGOs (local/transnational); international development

MASSON, Dominique, Associate Professor
Feminist studies; political sociology; sociology of social movements; women's movement; qualitative methods

MCLEAN, Lorna, Associate Professor
Global citizenship education, gender, history of citizenship and education, youth, curriculum and Social Studies, transnational biographies, cultural studies, pedagogy and teacher education

MIRZA, Vincent, Assistant Professor
Social transformation ; Japan ; Work, gender, identity ; Popular Culture, representations ; Political economy and everyday life ; Anthropology of work ; Political anthropology

MORAWSKI, Cynthia, Associate Professor
Learner in difficulty; literacy; language arts; women and education

MOREAU, Denise, Assistant Professor
Women's health (adult & youth); health of francophone women living in a minority situation in Canada; maternity representations & practices; health communication; health promotion

MUJAWAMARIYA, Donatille, Full Professor
Formation à l'enseignement; didactique des sciences; enseignement des sciences et femmes; éducation multiculturelle et antiraciste; questions des inégalités en général

MUNRO, Lauchlan Thomas, Associate Professor
Poverty, human rights and social protection; The economics of risk and uncertainty; Public sector management, especially aid effectiveness; Children and development policy

NG-A-FOOK, Nicholas, Assistant Professor
Curriculum theory; curriculum studies; curriculum inquiry; internationalization of curriculum studies; indigenous studies; postcolonial studies; cultural studies; women and gender studies; autobiographical/biographical/narrative inquiry research

O'CONNOR, Eileen, Associate Professor
Classifications of health indicators and determinants; gender; risks and disease outbreaks; framing illness and disease in historical perspective

ORSINI, Michael, Associate Professor
Health policy; interest groups; social movements; public policy; VIH/SIDA; hepatitis C; narrative analysis, Aboriginal politics

PALULIS, Patricia, Associate Professor
Curriculum theorizing in language, literacy, culture and spatiality; post-structural, post-colonial and psychoanalytic discourses within interdisciplinary studies; reading and writing as a doubling gesture of (inter)textuality; research as performati

PARENT, Colette, Full Professor
Feminism and criminology; wife assault; sex work

PERRON, Amélie, Assistant Professor
Marginalized populatons; psychiatry and mental health, forensic nursing; identity and subjectivity; risk; power relationships; ethics and politics, critical theory, discourse deconstruction; policy deconstruction; epistemology

PHILLIPS, Karen, Assistant Professor
Reproductive physiology; reproductive technology; endocrine disrupters; cell biology; risk assessment

PIETRANTONIO, Linda, Associate Professor
Ethnic relations; race and sex relations; equality: ideologies and social policies; epistomology of the minority fact; social discourse analysis

POLOMENO, Viola, Associate Professor
Perinatal sexuality; intimacy of the parenting couple; relationship love-health; intervention programs on intergenerational family health promotion; perinatal education; perceptual interpersonal approach; development, psychometric evaluation and translation of family research instruments

RAJIVA, Mythili, Associate Professor
Feminist Theory and Methodology ; Critical race and postcolonial theory ; South Asian diaspora ; Adolescence/girlhood/youth culture research ; Cultural studies ; Theories of selfhood/subjectivity, Contemporary Social Theory

RIPPEYOUNG, Phyllis, Associate Professor

SAURETTE, Paul, Associate Professor
Contemporary political theory; history of political thought; ideology and politics of conservatism

SCHWARTZ, Agatha, Associate Professor
Literature of the 20th century; women's literature; gender studies; German and Central Europe culture

SCOTT, Corrie, Assistant Professor
Critical Race Theories ; Queer Theories ; Masculinities ; Quebec and Francophone Literatures ; Gender in Popular Culture and Cinema

SEFERDJELI, Ryme, Assistant Professor
Modern Middle Eastern and North African history; women and gender history (Middle East and North Africa)

SETHNA, Christabelle, Associate Professor
History of sexuality; history of sexuality; history of sex education and birth control; post colonial studies

SHEEHY, Elizabeth, Full Professor
Criminal law; gender discrimination; feminist legal theory, women and the law

SIMON, Scott, Associate Professor
Political and legal anthropology; development; East Asian studies

SOULIÈRE, Marguerite, Assistant Professor
Life cycles events (birth, adolescence, and menopause); risk and pathologisation; masculine/feminine redefinitions; new networks of essential relationships (social kinship); intra and intergenerational transmission

SPITZER, Denise, Associate Professor
Health of immigrant and refugee women; immigration; transnationalism and identity; critical perspectives of the body; science and technology, community-based research

SPRONK, Susan, Assistant Professor
Latin America, particularly Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru; Labour and social movements; Neoliberalism and the privatization of public services in developing countries

STRAEHLE, Christine, Assistant Professor
Applied ethics; global ethics; theories of global justice; migration regimes; gender and global justice

SUGARS, Cynthia, Associate Professor
Canadian Literature; Postcolonial theory; Psychoanalysis

TELMISSANY, May, Associate Professor
Arab cinema and culture; contemporary Arab literature; literary theory; film theory; intercultural relations and multiculturalism; Arab Canadian Studies

TERRETTA, Meredith, Assistant Professor
Political and cultural history of Central Africa; nationalism; post-colonialism; historiography

THÉBERGE, Mariette, Associate Professor
Enseignement et apprentissage des arts; processus de création; formation à l'enseignement

THIFAULT, Marie-Claude, Associate Professor
History of nursing in Canada; history of women in Quebec and Canada; history of nursing sisters; history of life in mental institutions in the 19th and 20th centuries; women and marginality; gender and madness; cultural history

TOURIGNY, Jocelyne, Full Professor
Pre-operative preparation of children and parents ; emotional distress in young children ; parents' involvement in children's ambulatory care; fathers' involvement in children's health care, partnership model for parents and professionals

TREMBLAY, Manon, Full Professor
Canadian politics; women and politics; interest groups and social movements; parlementary system; Quebec politics; sexual diversity; representation and electoral systems

TREVENEN, Kathryn, Assistant Professor
Feminist and political thought ; human rights; postcolonial theory and politics; queer theory and LBGTQ rights; theories of cosmopolitan politics

TURENNE-SJOLANDER, Claire, Full Professor
Globalization; Canadian foreign policy; gender and international politics; theory of international relations; international political economy; international politics; American foreign policy

VON FLOTOW, Luise, Full Professor
Literary translation; gender and translation; audiovisual translation; Canadian studies

Applications for admission to the Collaborative program in women's studies at the master's level are submitted at the same time as the application for admission to the Master's program of the relevant discipline. Only one application for admission is required for the collaborative Master’s program. In exceptional cases, students could commence their specialization in women's studies in their second session of their primary program.

The letter of intention submitted with the application should include a clear account of the “women’s studies” dimension in the proposed topic of research.

Language Policy

The courses offered by the Collaborative Master’s program are given every year in English and in French. Please consult each participating program for their language requirements.

In accordance with the University of Ottawa regulation, assignments, examinations, research papers and theses can be produced in either English or French.

• Two compulsory courses:
FEM5300 FEMINIST THEORIES (3cr.)
FEM5103 FEMINIST METHODOLOGIES (3cr.)

Students must complete the two compulsory courses before their first registration for the major research paper or thesis.

• A thesis or major research paper on a topic related to women, gender, feminism or sexualities. The proposed topic must be approved by the Women’s Studies Graduate Committee as well as by the student’s primary program. The thesis or major research paper must demonstrate knowledge of feminist scholarship in the field or fields appropriate to the topic, and of feminist methodologies where applicable.
• The thesis supervisor must possess Women’s Studies and/or feminist expertise. In the case of a major research paper, the supervisor should, ideally, possess Women’s Studies and/or feminist expertise. If not, one of the readers must possess such expertise. Joint supervision by a professor from the participating unit and a professor chosen by the WSGC may be appropriate in some cases.
• Thesis or Major Research Paper Proposal: The thesis or major research paper proposal must be approved by the Women’s Studies Graduate Committee as well as by the primary program. Usually the thesis or major research paper proposal is submitted to women’s studies by the end of the third session of the first year of studies. For the primary programs that do not require a proposal, students must still submit a proposal to the Women’s Studies Graduate Committee.
• Examiner or Reader: One of the examiners (for the thesis) or reader (for the major research paper) must be a person approved by the Women’s Studies Graduate Committee.

Minimum Standards