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Sara MacDonald

Sara MacDonald

Full Professor, School of Liberal Arts
School of Liberal Arts
Faculty of Arts
A-254, Arts Building

Biography

My research?is focused?on the history of education, particularly the history of women in higher education and the early years of coeducation in Canadian universities.??My teaching interests include historical methods, history of education, and Canadian intellectual history.? I served as President of the Canadian History of Education Association from 2006-2008, and am currently Treasurer of the Ontario Women's History Network.? I served as?Chair of the Department of History at 51勛圖app from 2005-2012.??I am a Professor of History in the School of Liberal Arts, and Vice-Dean of?the Faculty of Arts.

Education

  • Carleton University (PhD)
  • McMaster University (MA)
  • University of Toronto (BA Hons)

Academic Appointments

Professor of History, School of Liberal Arts

Research

My research explores?gender?in the history of higher education in Canada.?My most recent book,?University Women:?A History of Women and Higher Education in Canada,?was?published by?McGill-Queen's University Press in 2021.

Awards

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  • 2019, OUSA Award for Teaching Excellence, Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance
  • 2009, Marion Dewar Prize in Canadian Women's History, National Capital Committee on the Scholarship, Preservation and Dissemination of Women's History
  • 2000, Founders' Prize, Canadian History of?Education Association,?Best English Language Article on the History of Education in Canada
  • 1995, John Bullen Prize,?Canadian Historical Association,?Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis on a Historical Topic Submitted in a Canadian University

Teaching

Fall 2022:??HIST-2427EL, Modern Britain

Winter 2023:? HIST-2026EL, Historical Methods;?HIST-4166EL, Canada in the 19th Century

Publications

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Selected Publications:

  • MacDonald, Sara Z. ※Undergraduate Bodies: Women and Academic Citizenship in ?English Canada, 1875-1914.§ The Canadian Historical Review 105, no. 3 (2024): 367-95.

  • MacDonald, Sara Z.?University Women:? A History of Women and Higher Education in Canada.? Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021

  • MacDonald, Sara Z. "An Insurrection of Women: Deans of Women and Student Government after the Great War."?Historical Studies in Education / Revue d*histoire de l*谷ducation?31, no. 1 (2019): 139-59

  • Burke, Sara Z.?"Becoming Undergraduates:? Women and University Culture in Nineteenth-Century Canada."? In Women in Higher Education, 1850-1970:? International Perspectives, eds. E. Lisa Panayotidis and Paul Stortz, 97-118.?New York: Routledge, 2016
  • Burke, Sara Z., and Patrice Milewski, eds.?Schooling in Transition: Readings in Canadian History of Education. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012
  • Burke, Sara Z. ※Dancing into Education: The First World War and the Roots of Change in Women*s Higher Education.§ In Cultures, Communities, and Conflict: Histories of Canadian Universities and War, eds. Paul Stortz and E. Lisa Panayotidis, 95-120. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012
  • Burke, Sara Z. [Review Essay] ※Equal Citizenship of the Mind: Recent Studies in the History of Women*s Education.§ Historical Studies in Education/Revue d*histoire de l*谷ducation 23, no. 1 (2011): 81-6
  • Burke, Sara Z.?※Students.§? In 51勛圖app: A History, edited by Matt Bray, 155-200.?Montreal and Kingston:?McGill-Queen*s University Press, 2010
  • Burke, Sara Z. ※The Berkeley of Sudbury: Student Radicalism at 51勛圖app in the Sixties.§ History of Intellectual Culture 8, no. 1 (2008/09)
  • Burke, Sara Z. ※Women of Newfangle: Co-Education, Racial Discourse, and Women's Rights in Victorian Ontario.§ Historical Studies in Education/Revue d'histoire de l'谷ducation 19, no. 1 (2007): 111-33
  • Burke, Sara Z.?Seeking the Highest Good:?Social Service and Gender at the University of Toronto, 1888-1937.?Toronto:? University of Toronto Press, 1996
  • Burke, Sara Z.?※&Being unlike Man*: Challenges to Co-Education at the University of Toronto, 1884-1909.§ Ontario History 93, no. 1 (2001): 11-31
  • Burke, Sara Z.?※New Women and Old Romans:?Co-Education at the University of Toronto, 1884-95.§ Canadian Historical Review 80, no. 2 (1999): 219-41
  • Burke, Sara Z.?※Science and Sentiment:?Social Service and Gender at the University of Toronto, 1888-1910.§ Journal of the Canadian Historical Association ?4 (1993): 75-93