Susan Whitney
| Degrees: | Ph.D., Rutgers University |
| Phone: | (613) 520-2600 x 1409 |
| Email: | susan_whitney@carleton.ca |
| Office: | 420 Paterson Hall |
Research Interests
- European youth and women’s history
- French Communism and Catholicism
- 20th c. social and political history
Recent publications
Susan B. Whitney, Mobilizing Youth: Communists and Catholics in Interwar France (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2009).
“Communism: Overview” and “Communism: The Fall of Communism” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, edited by Peter N. Stearns (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), Vol. 2, pp. 265-270 and pp. 276-279.
“Communist Youth” in Paula S. Fass, ed., Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004), pp. 224-226.
“Gender, Class and Generation in Interwar French Catholicism: The Case of the Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne Féminine,” Journal of Family History, Vol. 26, No. 4 (October 2001), pp. 480-507.
“The Communist Movement and Women,” in Peter N. Stearns, ed., The Other Side of Western Civilization: Readings in Everyday Life, Vol. 11, 5th Edition (Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 2000), pp. 334-343.