Prof. Pat Gentile’s book nominated for CHA Best Scholarly Book in CA History!
Patrizia Gentile‘s book Queen of the Maple Leaf : Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity has been nominated for a 2021 Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize, awarded by the Canadian Historical Association.
The prize is given to the non-fiction work of Canadian history that is deemed to have made the most significant contribution to our understanding of the Canadian past. The winner will be announced at the CHA AGM on June 14th, 2021.
Our warmest congratulations to our colleague Pat!
Click here for the shortlist of nominees
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Patrizia Gentile is a Professor and Graduate Advisor at the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation and an Associate Director at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies. She holds a Ph.D. from Queen’s University in the Department of History. Her dissertation was an historical study of beauty contests in Canada from the 1920s to the early 1990s. Professor Gentile is also co-author of The Canadian War on Queer: National Security as Sexual Regulation (UBC: 2010) with Dr. Gary Kinsman.
Research Interests: Cultural/gender history; history of sexuality; history and theory of the body; beauty contests; national security; October Crisis and immigrant communities; queer theory