Members of the Executive Committee

Ann Denis Canada

Full Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. Presently working on two funded research projects - one interdisciplinary, the other, interdisciplinary and international - and co-editing the forthcoming New Handbook of International Sociology (Sage), a selection of revised papers which were presented at the 2002 Mid-Term Research Council Conference in Ottawa. Author or co-author of numerous articles and book chapters, two co-authored books and a co-edited special journal issue. Research has focussed on power relations and resistance, within and between societies in the Economic North and South, in particular on the intersection of gender, ethnicity/race and class. Specific topics include: use of the Internet by minorities; impact of society-centred engineering programmes on student retention; women’s paid and unpaid work, especially in Canada and the Commonwealth Caribbean; the effects of globalization and state policies on women in different social and geographical locations; contributions of feminism to theory and methodology in sociology. Selected publications “Globalization, Women and (In)equity in the South: Constraint and Resistance in Barbados”, International Sociology, 8, 3, 2003: 419-512. “Multiple Identities... Multiple Marginalities: Franco-Ontarian Feminism”, Gender and Society, 15, 3, 2001: 453-457. - Femmes de carrières. Carrières de femmes, collection Études des femmes, Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa. 1999. 182 pages. Co-authored with Cécile Coderre and Caroline Andrew. Organizational experience University of Ottawa: Chair, Dept. of Sociology, University of Ottawa 1976-79; 1994-2000; first coordinator of the Women’s Studies programme 1983-85. Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association: member of Ethics Committee, Board, and (1995-98), Vice President, President, Past President. International Sociological Association: Vice President Research (2002-2006); RC32 board - regional representative (1992-1999), co-chair (1999-2002), past-co-chair (2002-2006). Member of editorial boards for Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Canadian Ethnic Studies, Canadian Journal of Development Studies.

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