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Dr. Lara Campbell SFUI am a Professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS) at Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada), where I have also served as Department Chair, Graduate Chair, Undergraduate Chair, Associate Dean (Undergraduate Programming, Teaching and Learning, and Student Experience) and Dean pro tem in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. I am on sabbatical until January 2026.

I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in Canadian women’s and gender history, histories of social protest, the history of the 1960s, feminist theory, and gender studies. I am co-organizer of Vancouver’s Café Minerva. I am currently accepting graduate students interested in Canadian women’s and gender history.

Research and Publications

My research has explored the impact of unemployment in the Great Depression on family life and masculinity; the emergence of the gendered welfare state; and survival strategies adopted by poor and unemployed families. My current research is on the history of the Vietnam war and the transnational and gendered politics of the draft resistance and antiwar movements in North America, the women’s suffrage movement, and histories of feminist activism. I co-edited a collection (Feeling Feminism) on the emotional history of second wave feminism in Canada with Catherine Gidney and Michael Dawson. My 2020 book on the history of the suffrage movement in British Columbia (A Great Revolutionary Wave) received the Basil Stuart-Stubbs Book Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia and the Canadian Historical Association Clio Prize for British Columbia.

I was awarded the Dean’s Medal for Excellence in Academic research, teaching, and service (Simon Fraser University, 2015); the National Capital Committee on the Scholarship, Preservation and Dissemination of Women’s History, Marion Dewar Prize, 2011 [Outstanding scholar based on record of research, teaching and administrative work]; Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Cormack Teaching Award, 2010-11; and Honourable Mentions from the Canadian Historical Association (2010) and the Canadian Women’s Studies Association (2011) for Respectable Citizens: Gender, Family, and Unemployment in Ontario’s Great Depression (UTP, 2009).

Upcoming/Recent Talks

Café Minerva was a free gender and women’s history group which held public events on women’s history in Vancouver, British Columbia until 2020. It was organized by Dr. Willeen Keough (Department of History, Simon Fraser University) and Dr. Lara Campbell (Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, SFU). Check out our website at http://cafeminerva.weebly.com and follow us on twitter @Cafe_Minerva