Le CCHFG tient chaque année une Assemblée Générale, dans le cadre du Congrès des Sociétés savantes. Cette assemblée élit alors les membres de l’Exécutif, composé d’une présidente, vice-présidente et rédactrice du Bulletin du CCHFG, de cinq représentantes régionales (provinces de l’Atlantique, Québec, Ontario, Prairies et Colombie-Britannique) et d’une Agente de liaison, chargée de maintenir des contacts avec la Fédération internationale pour la recherche en histoire des femmes et avec d’autres groupes internationaux similaires. L’Exécutif comprend aussi deux représentantes étudiantes, qui sont élues annuellement par le CCHFG et dont l’election est subjet à l’approbation du comité des étudiantes-e-s diplômé-e-s de la Société historique du Canada, ainsi qu’une secrétaire-trésorière, nommée par la vice-présidente.

The CCWGH holds an Annual General Meeting during the annual Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. Members of the Executive are then elected. The Executive consists of the Chair, Associate Chair/CCWGH Newsletter Editor, English-language Secretary, French-language Secretary, Treasurer (appointed by the Associate Chair), Webmaster, five Regional Representatives (Atlantic Provinces, Quebec, Ontario, Prairies and British Columbia, NWT, and Yukon), an Independent Scholars Representative, an International Federation for Research in Women’s History Representative. The Executive also includes two student representatives, who are elected annually by the CCWGH and subject to the approval of the CHA Graduate Students’ Committee.

Chair/Présidente : Patrizia Gentile, Carleton University

Patrizia Gentile is Professor in the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation and in the Human Rights & Social Justice program in the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies. Her monograph, Queen of the Maple Leaf: Beauty Contests and Settle Femininity (UBC Press), was nominated for the Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History prize by the Canadian Historical Association in 2021. She is co-author with Gary Kinsman of the Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation (UBC Press) and the co-editor of two anthologies, Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History (UofT Press) with Jane Nicholas and We Still Demand! Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles (UBC Press) with Gary Kinsman and L. Pauline Rankin.  Her most recent Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant support a history of sport project that focuses on boxing, race, and sexuality. She is a cis-gendered/queer settler living on unceded Algonquin territories.

 

Vice-Chair/Vice-Présidente: Sarah Glassford, University of Windsor

Sarah Glassford is the Archivist lead for community collections and teaching and learning, at the University of Windsor’s Leddy Library Archives & Special Collections. She is also a social historian of modern Canada with an interest in women, children, wartime, health, and humanitarian aid; in her first career she taught History at the universities of Ottawa, Carleton, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick. She is the author of Mobilizing Mercy: A History of the Canadian Red Cross (McGill-Queen’s University Press) and the co-editor of A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the First World War (UBC Press) and Making the Best of It: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the Second World War (UBC Press), both with Amy J. Shaw. She has received SSHRC funding for both her historical research and her archival outreach initiatives, and was a 2009 winner of the CCWGH’s Hilda Neatby article prize. She is currently engaged in several community partnerships to develop and highlight the archival record of Francophone, Black, and Queer communities in Windsor/Essex.

 

English-Language Secretary: Lisa Pasolli

 

Lisa Pasolli is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Queen’s University, where she researches and teaches the history of women, gender, and social policy in 20th century Canada. She is the author of Working Mothers and the Child Care Dilemma: A History of British Columbia’s Social Policy (UBC Press) and co-editor, with Julia Smith, of Rethinking Feminist History and Theory: Essays on Gender, Class, and Labour (University of Toronto Press). Currently, she is working on histories of social policy and taxation, as well as on histories of childcare as part of the multidisciplinary SSHRC Partnership Grant Reimagining Care/Work Policies.

 

French-Language Secretary/Langue française secrétaire: Camille Robert

Camille Robert est doctorante et chargée de cours en histoire à l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Son projet de thèse propose une histoire du tournant néolibéral de l’État québécois à partir des points de vue de travailleuses de l’éducation et de la santé ayant participé aux grèves du secteur public des années 1980. Son mémoire de maîtrise, qui portait sur les mobilisations des féministes québécoises pour la reconnaissance du travail ménager, a été publié sous forme de livre aux Éditions Somme toute en 2017. Elle a également codirigé, avec la chercheuse Louise Toupin, un ouvrage collectif sur le travail invisible des femmes, paru aux Éditions du remue-ménage en 2018. Soucieuse de contribuer à la révision des récits dominants et à la diffusion de l’histoire, elle est membre du comité éditorial d’HistoireEngagée.ca et collabore avec plusieurs médias et organismes.

 

Camille Robert is a PhD candidate and lecturer in history at Université du Québec à Montréal. Her thesis project offers a history of the neoliberal turn taken by the Québec state from the points of view of education and healthcare workers who took part in the public sector strikes of the 1980s. Her master’s thesis, which focused on Québec feminists’ fight for the recognition of housework as work, was published by Éditions Somme toute in 2017. With Louise Toupin, she also co-edited an edited collection on women’s invisible work, published by Éditions du remue-ménage in 2018. Committed to contributing to rethinking dominant historical narratives and to engaging with the public, she regularly works with a number of media outlets and community organizations, and is a member of the editorial committee at HistoireEngagée.ca.

 

Treasurer/Trésorier: Lisa Pasolli (Interim)

Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women Representative/Agente de liaison, Institut canadien de recherches sur les femmes: Catherine Carstairs

International Federation for Research in Women’s History Representative/Agente de liaison, International Federation for Research in Women’s History: Julia Smith, University of Manitoba

Representatives

Graduate Student Representatives/Représentantes des étudiantes aux cycles supérieurs: Karen Brglez & Jacqueline Girard

Prairie Representative/Représentante des Prairies: Currently vacant

Atlantic Representative/Représentante de l’Atlantique: Vicki Hallett

Interdisciplinary Historians Representative/Représentante des historiennes interdisciplinaires: Lara Campbell

Public History Representative/Représentante de l’histoire publique: Shuyao Qin

Independent Scholars’ Representative/Représentante des chercheuses indépendantes: Alison Norman

BC, Yukon, NWT, and Nunavut Representative/Représentante de Colombie-Britannique, Yukon, TNW, et Nunavut: Jamey Jesperson

Ontario Representative/Représentante de l’Ontario: Matthew Wiseman

Quebec Representative/Représentante du Québec: Melissa Shaw