Sarah Hogenbirk
Doctoral Candidate
| Degrees: | B.A. Hons, M.A. (York) |
| Email: | sarahhogenbirk@cmail.carleton.ca |
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Current Program (including year of entry)
Ph.D., 2011.
Supervisor(s)
Drs. Joanna Dean and Norman Hillmer
Academic Interests
Canadian History; Women’s History; Gender History and History of Sexuality; War and Society.
Select Publication and Current Projects
“Looking Back, Planning Ahead: Canadian Women’s Services, 1946.” Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, May 27, 2014, St. Catharines, ON, May 27, 2014. Poster presented at the sixteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Toronto, ON, May 24, 2014.
“‘Snaps and Scraps’: Pasting Together Canadian Women’s Military Service, 1940-1950.” Paper presented at 25th Military History Colloquium, hosted by the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, Wilfred Laurier University. Waterloo, ON, May 9, 2014.
Teaching Experience
Making of Canada (HIST 1300); Canadian Political History (HIST 2303A)
Description of Research
My research examines Canadian women’s military service during the years of 1939 to 1965 in light of the interactions of gender norms, sexuality and citizenship. It explores how the Canadian army, navy and air force managed women and women managed the Canadian army, navy and air force. I look at how spaces emerged for women as permanent members of the Canadian Armed Forces. I explore how and hypothesize that, between 1940 and 1965, career-oriented servicewomen opened up new spaces in the Canadian armed forces for alternate expressions of femininity/womanhood that encouraged long-term identification with the military while simultaneously institutionalizing white heteronormative ideals of female domesticity.