Visiting Scholars
Bank of Montreal Visiting Scholar in Women's Studies for the academic year 2019-2020
Bank of Montreal Visiting Scholar in Women's Studies for the academic year 2019-2020
In 1992, the Bank of Montreal established a Women's Studies Scholars Program at the University of Ottawa to encourage research that would have direct positive impacts for women. Since that time, the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies has conducted an annual competition offering the opportunity to a feminist researcher having completed her or his Ph.D. to pursue his or her studies in an interdisciplinary, multicultural and bilingual environment, while sharing the research results with the university community.
The Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies is pleased to announce that Dr. Carolyn Whitzman has been selected as the 2019-2020 Bank of Montreal Visiting Scholar in Women’s Studies.
Dr. Whitzman has been Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne. She has recently relocated to Ottawa, after 16 years in Australia, to continue her transnational action research on affordable housing partnerships.
Dr. Carolyn Whitzman
Professor Whitzman is the author, co-author or editor of five books related to ‘the right to the city’ in both a contemporary and historical perspective. These include Building Inclusive Cities: Women’s Safety and the Right to the City (Routledge, 2013); Suburb, Slum, Urban Village: Transformations in a Toronto’s Parkdale Neighbourhood 1875-2002 (UBC Press, 2009), and The Handbook of Community Safety, Gender, and Violence Prevention: Practical Planning Tools (Earthscan, 2008). She is also the author or co-author of over 50 book chapters, articles and published conference presentations on affordable housing, children’s independent mobility, women’s safety, and disability rights. She frequently provides policy advice to local, state and national government and to the UN, including addressing the plenary at the Habitat III Conference in Quito, Ecuador in September 2016.
While at the University of Ottawa, she is putting the finishing touches on her new book, Clara Ford: race, gender and murder in 19th century Toronto (Cormorant Books, forthcoming). She is also undertaking Canadian-based research on how best to scale up both the quantity and quality of affordable housing.
Dr. Whitzman is speaking at the CHRN Conference on Affordable and Social Housing on Wednesday, July 17, 2019 in FSS 5028 at the University of Ottawa. More info here!
Please check out Dr. Whitzman's interview with Radio-Canada on why women bike less than men (interview is French only)
To reach Dr. Carolyn Whitzman
E-mail: cwhitzma@uottawa.ca
