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Research Interests<\/strong>: Cultural\/gender history; history of sexuality; history and theory of\u00a0the body; beauty contests; national security; October Crisis and immigrant communities;\u00a0queer theory<\/p>\n

Cross-appointments (0-100%)<\/strong>: Department of History; Department of Sociology; School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies; Department of Law and Legal Studies<\/p>\n

Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Books authored:<\/u><\/p>\n

Patrizia Gentile, Queen of the Maple Leaf: Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity<\/em> (UBC Press,October 2020).<\/p>\n

Queen of the Maple of Leaf is nominated for the Canadian Historical Association Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize 2021.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile. The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as\u00a0Sexual Regulation.<\/em> (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010).<\/p>\n

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Grants\/Awards<\/span><\/p>\n

SSHRC IG Grant (July 2020-2022), Principal Investigator: \u201cLearning the Ropes: The Beaver Boxing Club and the Re\/Making of Marginalized Subjectivities\u201d (co-investigator, Dan Irving)<\/p>\n

SSHRC Explore (July 2020-extended to July 2022), Co-Investigator: \u201cThe Long Shadow of the “Special Period” and the Challenge of Building Cycling Mobilities in Cuba Today\u201d (Principal Investigator, David Hugill)<\/p>\n

Books edited:<\/u><\/p>\n

Patrizia Gentile, Gary Kinsman, and L.Pauline Rankin, eds. We Still Demand!:\u00a0Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles. <\/em>(Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2016)<\/p>\n

Patrizia Gentile and Jane Nicholas, eds. Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian\u00a0History<\/em> (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014)<\/p>\n

Journal Articles:<\/u><\/p>\n

Patrizia Gentile, \u201cGli Italiani non hanno paura<\/em>\u201d: Italian-language Newspapers and the 1970 October Crisis,\u201d Quebec Studies<\/em> 55 (Summer 2013): 135-150.<\/p>\n

Patrizia Gentile, \u201cRestricted Access? National Security, Access to Information, and Queer\u00a0(ing) Archives,\u201d Archivaria<\/em> 68 (December 2009): 137-158.<\/p>\n

Patrizia Gentile and Gary Kinsman, \u201dS\u00fbret\u00e9, risque et r\u00e9sistance: Le Programme\u00a0canadien de surveillance des homosexuels durant la Guerre froide,\u201d Bulletin d\u2019histoire\u00a0politique<\/em> 16, no. 3 (2008): 43-58.<\/p>\n

Chapters in Collections:<\/u><\/p>\n

Patrizia Gentile and Gary Kinsman, \u201cNational Security, Homonationalism, and the\u00a0Making of the Neo-Liberal Queer,\u201d in Queer Kaleidoscopes: Disturbing Canadian\u00a0<\/em>Homonationalisms<\/em>, eds. OmiSoore H. Dryden & Suzanne Lenon, (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2015)<\/p>\n

Patrizia Gentile, \u201c\u2018\u00c0 Bas la r\u00e9pression contre les homosexuels!\u2019 R\u00e9sistance et\u00a0surveillance des gais \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al, 1971-1976,\u201d in Histoires de la sexualit\u00e9 au Qu\u00e9bec<\/em>,\u00a0edited by Jean-Philippe Warren (VLB \u00e9diteur, 2013).<\/p>\n

Jane Nicholas and Patrizia Gentile, \u201cIntroduction: Contesting Bodies, Nation, and\u00a0Canadian History,\u201d in Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History<\/em>, edited by\u00a0Patrizia Gentile and Jane Nicholas (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014)<\/p>\n

Patrizia Gentile, \u201cCapital Queer: Social Memory and Queer Place(s) in Cold War Ottawa,\u201d\u00a0in Placing Memory<\/em>, edited by James Opp and John Walsh (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010).<\/p>\n

Patrizia Gentile, \u201c\u2018Government Girls,\u2019 \u2018Ottawa Men\u2019: Cold War Management of Gender\u00a0Relations in the Civil Service\u201d, in Dieter Buse, Gary Kinsman, and Mercedes Steedman\u00a0(eds), Whose National Security? Canadian State Surveillance and The Creation of\u00a0Enemies,<\/em> eds. (Toronto: Between the Lines: 2000): 131-141.<\/p>\n

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Activities<\/strong><\/p>\n

President, Lambda Scholarship Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n

Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality- Co-ordinator (with Steven Maynard)<\/p>\n

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