Congratulations to Patrizia Gentile (principal investigator) and Dan Irving (co-investigator), who were recently awarded a $65,680 SSHRC grant for the project Learning the Ropes: The Beaver Boxing Club and the Re/Making of Marginalized Subjectivities.
Established in Ottawa in 1943 the Beaver Boxing Club (BBC) trained generations of amateur fighters in the art and science of competitive boxing. Over the decades, the BBC has flourished into a boxing club and community centre, focusing on marginalized communities. The experiences and histories forged in the context of this particular boxing club exist as a transgressive space catering to the lives of those within the boxing community and beyond.
This project proposes to create a physical and digital archive documenting the role of boxing clubs as unique and somewhat unexpected community spaces that have largely untold histories of ‘fighting’ against systemic race, gender, and class hierarchies.
- Learn more about Pat Gentile (she/her)
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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
- Learn more about Dan Irving (he/him)
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Dan Irving is an Associate Professor cross appointed to the Feminist institute of Social Transformation and the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies teaching in the Human Rights (IIS) and Sexuality Studies (FIST) programs. In the spring of 2015, he launched his new research project exploring Eminem, “aggrieved entitlement” (Kimmel 2008) and other affective dimensions of youth masculinities in times of socio-economic crisis. Currently, Irving is wrapping up his study of trans* and two-spirit individuals experiences of unemployment and underemployment. He has presented findings to academic, professional and public audiences. Irving is the co-editor of Trans Activism in Canada: A Reader (with Rupert Raj) published by Canadian Scholar’s Press. His work has been published in Transgender Studies Reader 2, Sexuality Studies and Australian Feminist Studies. Irving also serves on the Board of Directors of Egale Canada as Secretary.
Friday, November 6, 2020 | Categories: News