{"id":239,"date":"2009-10-21T10:31:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T14:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?page_id=239"},"modified":"2025-04-11T09:51:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T13:51:56","slug":"susan-b-whitney","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/susan-b-whitney\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Whitney"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Interests&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Global youth history<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>20<sup>th<\/sup> century French history<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Women\u2019s and gender history<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Select Recent Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Mobilizing-Youth-Book-Cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Mobilizing-Youth-Book-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"Mobilizing Youth Book Cover\" class=\"wp-image-17620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Mobilizing-Youth-Book-Cover.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Mobilizing-Youth-Book-Cover-160x239.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/mobilizing-youth?viewby=subject&amp;categoryid=32&amp;sort=newest\"><em>Mobilizing Youth: Communists and Catholics in Interwar France <\/em><\/a>(Durham and London:&nbsp; Duke University Press, 2009).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/reviewcanada.ca\/magazine\/2018\/11\/\">The myth of 1968:&nbsp; Clinging to pictures of a revolution in France<\/a>,\u201d <em>Literary Review of Canada<\/em>, November 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/reviewcanada.ca\/magazine\/2018\/01\/\">Is secularism really better for women?&nbsp; Sex, niqabs, and the secular state<\/a>,\u201d <em>Literary Review of Canada<\/em>, January 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/LRC-Whitney-JUNE-2018.pdf\">Sisterhood of the Secret Pantaloons:&nbsp; Suffragists and their descendants<\/a>,\u201d <em>Literary Review of Canada<\/em>, Vol. 26, No. 5 (June 2018), pp. 21-22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.h-france.net\/vol16reviews\/vol16no29whitney.pdf\"><em>H-France Review <\/em><\/a>Vol. 16 (February 2016), no. 29. Holly Grout, <em>The Force of Beauty:&nbsp; Transforming French Ideas of Femininity in the Third Republic<\/em> (LSU Press, 2015)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Clio, <\/em>R\u00e9gis&nbsp;Revenin,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/clio\/13429\"><em>Une histoire des gar\u00e7ons et des filles<\/em>&nbsp;<em>: amour, genre, sexualit\u00e9 dans la France d\u2019apr\u00e8s-guerre<\/em><\/a> (Paris, Vend\u00e9miaire, 2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.h-france.net\/vol14reviews\/vol14no52whitney.pdf\"><em>H-France Review <\/em><\/a>Vol. 14 (March 2014), no. 52.&nbsp; Brenna Moore, <em>Sacred Dread:&nbsp; Raissa Maritain, the Allure of Suffering, and the French Catholic Revival<\/em> (1905-1944), (University of Notre Dame Press, 2013).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCommunism: Overview\u201d and \u201cCommunism: The Fall of Communism,\u201d <em>The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World<\/em>, ed. Peter N. Stearns (New York and Oxford:&nbsp; Oxford University Press, 2008), Vol. 2, 265-270 and 276-279.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Public lectures and radio interviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrench Children and the Great War,\u201d <em>Symposium on Children, Youth and War<\/em>, Canadian War Museum, November 19, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/programs\/intownandout\/children-war-1.3858904\">Children and War<\/a>,\u201d CBC Radio, <em>In Town and Out<\/em>, November 19, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2017-2018 Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Graduate Supervisions<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ann Walton, &#8220;From Labour to Leisure: Gender, Residential Institutions, and Shifting Approaches to Old Age in Canada, 1900-1960,\u201d Ph.D. thesis (co-supervision with Norman Hillmer).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tanyss Sharp, \u201cWomen Religious: Contact and Communication in Exile,\u201d M.A. Thesis (co-supervision with Paul Nelles).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Camas Clowater-Eriksson, \u201cCanadian Servicewomen in Flight: Gender Integration in the Royal Canadian Air Force,\u201d Master\u2019s Research Essay (co-supervision with Norman Hillmer).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recently Completed Graduate Supervisions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rowen H. Germain, \u201cKatherine Parr at Hampton Court Palace: A Performance Analysis of \u2018A Queen in Danger,\u2019\u201d Master\u2019s Research Essay, 2019. (co-supervision with David Dean).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Theresa LeBane, \u201cThree Catholic Congregations in a Nineteenth-Century City:&nbsp; Providing Social Services, Claiming Space for Women in Kingston, 1841-1874,\u201d M.A. Thesis, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mallory Pierce, &#8220;We Couldn&#8217;t Help Them in Budapest- But We Can Help Them in Canada&#8221;: English-Canadian Newspapers and the Hungarian Refugee Influx, 1956-1957,\u201d Master\u2019s Research Paper, 2018. (co-supervision with Norman Hillmer).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nicole Marion, \u201cCanada\u2019s Disarmers:&nbsp; The Complicated Struggle Against Nuclear Weapons, 1959-1963,\u201d Ph.D. thesis, 2017.&nbsp; (co-supervision with Norman Hillmer)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Natalie Hunter, \u201cMaking Connections, Imagining New Worlds:&nbsp; Women, Writing, and Resistance in Paris, 1897-1910,\u201d M.A. thesis, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Frequently Taught Courses<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HIST 2508:&nbsp; France Since 1889<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HIST 3115:&nbsp; Youth and History<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HIST 4201:&nbsp; Paris in the Jazz Age: Seminar in Modern European History<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HIST 5803: &nbsp;History of Women, Gender and Sexuality:&nbsp; Foundations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Please note that Professor Whitney is on sabbatical during the 2019-2020 academic year. &nbsp;She is accepting graduate students in youth history, modern French history, and women\u2019s and gender history.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17618,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Susan","cu_people_last_name":"Whitney","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[61],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-239","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Professor - modern France; 20th century social, cultural, and political history; global youth history; women's and gender history","cu_people_degree":"B.A. (Princeton, magna cum laude), M.A. (Brown), Ph.D. (Rutgers)","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"Susan.Whitney@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26635,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/239\/revisions\/26635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}