Lorna R Marsden
Professor
President emerita
lmarsden@yorku.ca
Professor of Sociology and President emerita,
York University (1997-2007). BA, UofT'68; PhD, Princeton'72. Taught
primarily in fields of economic sociology , population,and study of
Canada. Most recent book is Canadian Women and the Struggle for
Equality: The Road to Gender Equality since 1867, OUP, 2012. Really
likes to talk with students about their interests in her course on
Canadian society
Social Movements
Women and Feminism
Doctorate:
Princeton University, Sociology, 1972
Masters:
NA
While most active in her career her research lay in the field of
population studies and economic sociology with a special emphasis on the
lives of women in Canada. At present, her research is in the
organizational history of York University and she has persuaded the four
other living presidents of York to write together about the period from
1972-2015 in a book being published by the University of Toronto Press
entitled, Leading the Modern University (2016). Her upcoming research will complete an earlier study of the Ontario Committee on the Status of Women, and will describe the work of the organization from 1971-86.
Books
Leading the Modern University, UofToronto Press, Editor and author,forthcoming
Canadian Women and the Struggle for Equality, Oxford University Press, 2012
Lives of Their Own, the Individualization of Adult Women's Lives, Oxford UP, 1989 (with Charles Jones and Lorne Tepperman)
The Fragile Federation, Social Change in Canada, McGraw-Hill-Ryerson, 1979 (with E.B. Harvey)
and 33 chapters in books and 19 articles in referred journals.
Member of the Canadian Population Society
Member of the Panel for the Population Change and Life Course Strategic Knowledge Cluster, 2008-2015
Chair, Expert Panel on Women's Research Careers in Universities, Council of Academies, Ottawa, 2011-12
Chair, Ontario Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee, 2015-2018
Senior Fellow (Continuing), Massey College
Trustee, the Gardiner Ceramic Museum, 2007-
Director, Roy Thomson/Massey Hall Corporation, 2007-2016
Fellow, McLaughlin College
Member, Order of Canada, 2006
Member, Order of Ontario, 2009
Member, Order of Merit (First-class), Federal Republic of German, 2007
Honorary Degrees from UNB, Queen's University, University of Winnipeg, University of Toronto, Wilfrid Laurier University, University of Victoria
YWCA Woman of Distinction Award, 2003
Golden Apple Award, FWTAO, 1998
Arbor Award, University of Toronto Alumni Association, 1992
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