Administrative Work

York University

School of Women’s Studies:

  • Coordinator, Timeline of “York Women’s Studies History to 2011,” 2009-12
  • Chair, Women’s Studies Archives Project, 2007-2009
  • Convenor, Graduate Women’s Studies Faculty Reading Group, 2008-2010
  • Search Committee, position in “Gender, Internationalism, Development, and Peace,” 2006-07
  • Undergraduate Atkinson Coordinator, School of Women’s Studies, 2002-05
  • Executive Committee, School of Women’s Studies, 2002-05
  • Curriculum Committee, School of Women’s Studies 2002-05
  • School of Women’s Studies: Search Committee for Senior Position, 2000-01
  • School of Women's Studies: Implementation Team 1997; Project Team 1995-97.

Faculty of Graduate Studies: Graduate Program in Women’s Studies

  • Director, Graduate Programme in Women's Studies, 1993-1997
  • Admissions Committee, Graduate Programme in Women's Studies, 1992-1997, 2002-05, 2008, Chair: 2002-05
  • Conference Convenor, Graduate Programme in Women's Studies:
  • "Graduate Women's Studies: Visions and Realities," May 1995
  • "Celebrating Mary Wollstonecraft," October 1992
  • Member, Executive Committee, Graduate Programme in Women’s Studies, 2000-02, 2002-05, 2006-2009.
  • Member, Graduate Study Committee, 2006-2009.
  • Co-Organizer, YU50 project “From the Past to the Future: The York Women’s Studies Archives,” 2008-2010.
  • Co-Organizer and Convenor, Graduate Women’s Studies Faculty Reading Group, 2008-2010.
  • Member, Awards & Prizes Committee, 2010-15

Graduate Program in Humanities:

  • Member, Executive Committee, 2010-2012
  • Professionalization Workshop “The Gentle Art of Conferencing,” March 2010

Faculty of Graduate Studies:

  • Member, Academic Policy and Planning Committee, Faculty of Graduate Studies, 1997-1999
  • Member, Task Force on the Status of Women Graduate Students, 1989-92; Author of Report "Women and Part-Time Graduate Study"
  • Member, Working Group, Graduate Programme in Women's Studies, 1987-88
  • Member, Nominating Committee, Graduate English Programme, 1989-92; 1986-87
  • Convenor, Women and Literature Stream, Graduate English Programme, 1989-91
  • Dean’s Representative, Ph.D. dissertation oral, August 2001: “Common Knowledge: The Victorian Working Class and the Low Road to Science, 1870-1900” (Graduate History Program)
  • Dean’s Representative, Ph.D. dissertation oral, December 2003: “Becoming Women: Body Image, Identity and Difference in the Passage to Womanhood” (Graduate Program in Women’s Studies)
  • Member, Examining Committee, Ph.D. dissertation oral, June 2004: “How the European Witch-Hunt Helped Shape the Scientific Revolution: Superstition and the Idols of the Mind” (Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought)

University Level:

  • Member, Senate Sub-Committee on Honorary Degrees and Ceremonials, 2003-05, 1995-98
  • Chair, Search Committee for Director, Centre for Feminist Research, 1997-98
  • Chair, Search Committee for Advisor to the University on the Status of Women, 1997
  • Member, Executive Committee, Centre for Feminist Research 1993
  • Member, Senate Academic Policy and Planning Committee, 1986-89
  • Chair, Search Committee for Master of Vanier College, 1986
  • Working Committee on the Humanities M.A. 1985-88
  • Advisory Board, Sexual Harassment Education and Complaint Centre, 1983-84
  • Chair, Presidential Advisory Committee on Sexual Harassment, 1980-83
  • Advisor to the President on the Status of Women, 1979-81
  • Member, Committee on York/University of Toronto Women's Studies Colloquium, 1980-83, 1975-78
  • Compiler, York Women's Studies Brochure, 1975-78
  • Member, Presidential Committee to Review Salaries of Full-Time Faculty Women, 1975-76
  • Chair, Committee on Gerstein Lecture Series, 1975
  • Senate Nominating Committee, 1974-77

Atkinson College:

  • Representative to University Senate, 1994-97; 1991-4; 1985-86; 1973-75
  • Decanal Search Committee, 1991-92; 1981-82
  • Search Committee, Appointment in Science Studies, 1991
  • Policy and Planning Committee, 1989-90; 1977-78
  • Nominating Committee, 1987-89; 1980-82
  • Chair, Department of Humanities, Atkinson College 1985-88; 1973-74
  • Curriculum Committee, 1983-85
  • Library Committee, 1979-81
  • General Education Committee, 1973-75