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Suzanne Morton

Suzanne  Morton
Contact Information
Address: 

History,
۲ݮƵ University,
855, rue Sherbrooke O
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 2T7

Email address: 
suzanne.morton [at] mcgill.ca
Position: 
Professor
Office: 
Ferrier 333D
Degree(s): 

PhD (Dalhousie) 1990

Specialization by time period: 
1900 - Today
Specialization by geographical area: 
North America
Office hours: 

Winter 2024: Wednesday 15:00 – 17:00

Biography: 

Since 1992, I have taught in the area of 20th-century Canadian social and gender history at ۲ݮƵ. I am especially interested in the intersection of values and society with individuals, the state, and place. These interests were pursued in Ideal Surrounding: Gender in a Working-Class Neighbourhood in the 1920s (1995) and At Odds: Gambling and Canadians, 1919-1969 (2003) and in Wisdom, Justice and Charity: Canadian Social Welfare through the life of Jane B Wisdom, 1884-1975 (2014). They are also central to my current SSHRC-support manuscript “Contested Catch: Lobster, Localism and Canada’s Atlantic Coast, 1870-1970” which combines the traditions of social history, political economy, and social ecology. With Janet Guildford, I co-edited two collections that focus on women in the Atlantic region - Separate Spheres: Women’s Worlds in the 19th-Century Maritimes (1994, 1997, 2006) and Making Up the State: Women in 20th-Century Atlantic Canada (2010) and I am a past co-editor of the Canadian Historical Review and Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region.

Graduate supervision: 

Canadian post-Confederation history, gender, Atlantic Canada

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