Bettina Bradbury
| Degrees: | Ph.D
1984 History, Concordia, Montreal. "The Working Class
Family Economy, Montreal, 1861 1881." Supervisor Professor Ronald
Rudin. M.A 1975 History, Simon Fraser, Vancouver. "The Road to Receivership: Unemployment and Relief in Burnaby, North Vancouver City and District and West Vancouver, 1929 1933.” Supervisor Professor George Cooke. B.A. 1971 Sociology and English,
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand. |
| Current Position: | Associate Professor,
History Arts and Glendon, School of Women’s Studies |
| Recent Publications: | Bettina Bradbury
and Tamara Myers, eds., Negotiating Identities in 19th and 20th Century
Montreal (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005). Bettina Bradbury and Tamara Myers, “Introduction: Negotiating Identities in Nineteenth and-Twentieth-Century Montreal,” in Bradbury and Myers, eds., Negotiating Identities in 19th and 20th century Montreal (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005). “Widows Negotiate the Law: The
First Year of Widowhood in Early 19th Century Montreal,” in
Tamara Myers and Bettina Bradbury, eds., Negotiating Identity in
19th and 20th Century Montreal (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005) “Colonial Comparisons: Rethinking Marriage, Civilization and Nation in 19th century White Settler Societies,” in Phillip Buckner and G. Frances eds., Rediscovering the British World, (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2005) “The children of single parents
a century ago as seen through the 1901 census,” in Canadian
Families in 1901, in Peter Baskerville and Eric Sager, eds., (Forthcoming,
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005). |
| Papers/Presentations: | May 2005 “‘In
England a man can do as he likes with his property:’ Competing
Visions of Marriage and Inheritance in Nineteenth-Century Quebec and
the Cape Colony,” Thirteenth Berkshire Conference on the History
of Women, Scripps College, Claremont, California. . Oct 2004 “Le vote de Mme Cuvillier: loyauté, genre et alterité dans l’élection partielle de Montréal Ouest, 1832,” Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française, Annual Meeting, Chicoutimi. May 2004 “Widows at the Hustings, April-May 1832,” Montreal History Group Annual May Day Conference, “In the street.” Montreal Quebec. April 2004 “”Widows at the Hustings - Gender, Citizenship and the Montreal By-Elections of 1832,” The Widows’ Might Conference, sponsored by Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
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| Courses taught recently: | ARTS/HST
3533 Canadian Women’s History GL/HST/WMST 3690 Canadian Women’s History GL/HST/WMST 2605.06 Femmes, famille et travail au Canada HST 5561.03 Issues in Comparative Women's and Gender History: The Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries HST 5562.03 Issues in Comparative Women's and Gender History: The Twentieth Century |
| Research Interests: | Feminist family
history; Quebec and the British Empire; marriage and widowhood; marriage
and inheritance laws and colonization – Canada, Australia, New
Zealand and the Cape (South Africa). |
| Awards/Grants: | 2004-2009
Le Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société
et la culture, "La modernité à Montréal,
1790 1970: citoyenneté, consommation et ordre social,”
with Brian Young, Denyse Baillargeon, Donald Fyson, Suzanne Morton,
Sylvie Taschereau, Magda Fahrni, Karine Hébert, Andrée
Lévesque, Mary Anne Poutanen and Tamara Myers. 2004-2007
SSHRC Standard Grant, “Montreal modern: citizenship, social
order and consumption, 1780-1970,” with Brian Young and Suzanne
Morton (McGill); Tamara Myers (University of Winnipeg); Denyse Baillargeon
(U de Montréal); Donald Fyson (Laval); Mary Anne Poutanen
(Concordia); Karine Hébert (UQ a Rimouski); Sylvie Taschereau
(UQ a Trois Rivières); and Magda Fahrni (UQAM) |
