Pathy Professorship
The Canadian Studies Committee at Princeton University invites applications from distinguished scholars for the Pathy Visiting Professorship. The Pathy Professor will visit Princeton for one semester or for the full academic year. The teaching load is one undergraduate course in each semester for which a Princeton salary is paid. The course(s) should incorporate and promote (possibly in a comparative framework) the study of some aspect of Canadian society, culture, politics, economics, or history. The Pathy Professor will also be available to advise Canada-related undergraduate independent work, and will participate in Princeton’s Canadian Studies Committee during his or her time on campus. The course(s) taught by the Pathy Professor will be offered under the auspices of the appropriate Department or Program with permission of the Dean of the Faculty. The position is well compensated. Salary will depend on the recipient’s rank, salary, and on any sabbatical compensation at the home university, as well as on the Princeton teaching load.Applicants may apply on-line at https://jobs.princeton.edu. If unable to apply on-line, please send a letter of interest, a CV, the names of three references, and a brief description of a proposed undergraduate course to Professor Alan Patten, Chair, Canadian Studies Committee, 207 Scheide Caldwell House, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 08544. The Committee will begin reviewing applications around January 15, 2010. Princeton is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Information about the Canadian Studies Program can be found at www.princeton.edu/canadian. For further enquiries, contact Professor Alan Patten at apatten@princeton.edu.
For the 2008-2009 academic year, our Pathy Professor was Joan Sangster, Professor of History and Women’s Studies at Trent University, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a recent recipient of a prestigious Canada Council Killam Fellowship. The author of four books, and co-editor of five collections, Sangster has published widely in the areas of gender and women’s history, working-class history, law and criminology, and Aboriginal history. Her articles have appeared in law, women’s studies, and history journals, often exploring the connections between feminist theory and history, working-class and women’s history, and class, ‘race’ and gender relations. She is the recipient of a number of scholarly awards, including the Canadian Historical Association’s Hilda Neatby award for the best article in women’s history (1993 and 1999), and the Harold Adams Innis prize for Earning Respect: The Lives of Working Women in Small-town Ontario (University of Toronto Press), awarded by Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada for the best social science book of 1996. Her most recent books, Regulating Girls and Women: Sexuality, Family and the Law, Ontario 1920-60 and Girl Trouble: Juvenile Delinquency in English Canada explored the class, ‘race’ and gendered dynamics of girls’ and women’s conflicts with the law, while her current book project, Transforming Labour, is a study of the changes in women’s paid labour, union organizing, and political consciousness in the post-World War II period.