Lara Campbell (she/her)

Professor

AQ 5096
778-782-5526
lcampbel@sfu.ca
laracampbell.ca

Education

  • BA (History) and BSW (Social Work): McMaster University
  • MA (History): University of Toronto
  • PhD: (History): Queen’s University

Biography

Teaching

Pre-and Post-Confederation women’s history; History of social protest in North America; History of sex/gender in the 1960s; Feminist Theory; Introduction to Gender

Publications
  • Gender History: Canadian Perspectives. Co-authored with Willeen Keough. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2014.
  • Worth Fighting For: War Resistance in Canada from the War of 1812 to the War on Terror. Edited with Catherine Gidney and Michael Dawson. Toronto: Between the Lines Press, 2015.
  • Debating Dissent: The Sixties in Canada. Edited with Greg Kealey and Dominique Clément.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.
  • Respectable Citizens: Gender, Family, and Unemployment in Ontario’s Great Depression (University of Toronto Press, 2009)
Upcoming Publications:
  • Rethinking CanadaThe Promise of Women’s History. 8th Edition. Edited with Adele Perry and Tamara Myers. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2016. Forthcoming.
  • Canadian Women’s Enfranchisement and Struggles for Democracy: A History of Suffrage in British Columbia. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2016. Under Contract
Awards
  • Dean’s Medal for Academic Excellence, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Simon Fraser University [2015]
  • National Capital Committee on the Scholarship, Preservation and Dissemination of Women’s History, Marion Dewar Prize, 2011
  • Honourable Mention, Respectable Citizens, Canadian Women’s Studies Association Book Prize, 2011; Honourable Mention, Respectable Citizens, Sir John A. MacDonald Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association, 2010
  • SFU, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lesley Cormack Teaching Award, 2010

Courses

Spring 2024

This instructor is currently not teaching any courses.

Courses

Spring 2024

This instructor is currently not teaching any courses.