Hi CCWGH members! Bonjour aux membres du CCHFG!
(French follows / le français suit)
It is that time of year again when we want to hear from you about your research, so that we can promote it to our international colleagues. The International Federation for Research in Women’s History wants to know about your work on women’s and gender histories, so they can feature it in the upcoming newsletter.
We would love to hear from you about your: awards, books, journal articles, chapters, new research projects, blog posts, podcast interviews, newspaper editorials, Twitter presentations, and any other activities related to your work on women’s and gender history.
This is also a really good opportunity to highlight research and related work from grad students, contingent faculty, and early career researchers as well.
So please don’t hesitate to self-promote, or, even better, to promote someone else’s work.
Please send your contributions to our IFRWH rep, Maddie Knickerbocker (madeline.knickerbocker@kpu.ca
Nous voulons vous entendre parler de vos recherches, afin de pouvoir en faire la promotion auprès de nos collègues internationaux. La Fédération internationale pour la recherche en histoire des femmes souhaite en effet connaître vos travaux en histoires des femmes et du genre, afin de pouvoir les présenter dans son prochain bulletin.
Nous serions ravis de vous entendre parler de vos: prix, livres, articles de journaux, chapitres, nouveaux projets de recherche, articles de blog, interviews de podcast, éditoriaux de journaux, présentations Twitter, et toute autre activité liée à votre travail sur l’histoire des femmes et du genre.
C’est aussi une très bonne occasion de mettre en valeur les recherches et les travaux d’étudiants diplômés, de instructeurs précaires, et de chercheurs en début de carrière.
Veuillez envoyer vos contributions à notre représentante de l’IFRWH, Maddie Knickerbocker (madeline.knickerbocker@kpu.ca
Distinguished Professor Emerita Wendy Mitchinson of the Department of History died on October 23, 2021. A pioneering women’s historian, she joined the University of Waterloo with tenure in 1985 and held the Canada Research Chair in Gender and Medical History from 2006 to 2013.


As a teacher, Mitchinson was a dedicated, supportive, and much-loved supervisor and mentor to scores of graduate students who established distinguished careers both within and outside the academy. According to her students, she was their role model, their guide, their support, their advocate, and their very best critic. In 2013, she won the University’s Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision.
We are delighted to announce that Amanda Whittaker, a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Toronto, is the recipient of the Marta Danylewycz Memorial Fund award for 2021. Whittaker’s doctoral project, entitled Food Scripts: Emotional Transnationalism and Migrant Life Stories in Montreal, Quebec, focuses on the experiences of migrants who arrived in Montreal in the post-1960 period. Using oral histories, her work explores the emotional dimensions of food and cuisine and in doing so helps us to better understand the experience of migration. Whittaker’s work, like Marta Danylewycz’s, is rooted in feminist analysis of women’s lives. Maintaining foodways was an important way for migrant women to maintain connections to their homelands, but it was also work that added to women’s struggle with the rupture of migration. Her work asks: How were cultural and culinary practices disrupted by migration and what kind of domestic and gender negotiations occurred post-migration? We look forward to learning from her innovative project.