Heidi MacDonald
Dr. Heidi MacDonald is Dean of Arts and Professor of History and Politics. She in an historian of twentieth-century Canada with specializations in Atlantic Canada, the Great Depression, women religious (nuns), suffrage and youth. Her publications include:
- We Shall Persist: Women and the Vote in the Atlantic Provinces. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2023.
- Vatican II and Beyond: The Changing Mission and Identity of Canadian Women Religious.(co-authored with Rosa Bruno-Jofré and Elizabeth Smyth), McGill-Queen’s, 2017.
Her current book project is “On Hold? Youth and the Great Depression in Canada.”
Dr. MacDonald currently serves on the editorial board of Acadiensis: The Journal of Atlantic Canada Studies, as well as the Saint John City Commemoration Advisory Committee and the New Brunswick Public Libraries Foundation Board of Trustees.
From 1999 to 2018, Dr. MacDonald was a member of the History Department at the University of Lethbridge and founding Director of the Centre for Oral History and Tradition.
Dr. MacDonald welcomes inquiries from potential graduate students and the media.
Recent peer-reviewed articles
(full cv available on request)
“Early Support for Women’s Suffrage in Prince Edward Island,” Findings (Champlain Society), Forthcoming April 2024.
“Edith Jessie Archibald, 1854-1936,” Dictionary of Canadian Biography Vol. XVI, 1931 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Forthcoming 2024.)
“Atlantic Canadian Women and Gender History: Where Is It Going and Where Should It Be Going?” Acadiensis, XLXX, 2 (Fall 2021): 31-48.
“Transforming Catholic Women's Education in the Sixties: Sister Catherine Wallace's Feminist Leadership at Mount Saint Vincent University,” Encounters in Theory and History of Education, vol 18 (2017): 53-77.
“Past and Present: Women’s Suffrage and Confederation,” Acadiensis, XLVI, 1 (Spring 2017): 163-76. (Nominated for the 2018 Hilda Neatby Award.)
Podcasts
Episode 262, Witness to Yesterday (Champlain Society Podcast), “We Shall Persist: Women and the Vote in the Atlantic Provinces,” Nicole O’Byrne, interviewer, 21 March 2024.
Recent media contributions
“We Shall Persist”: New book shines light on fight for women’s right to vote in Atlantic region,” 21 April 2024.
