Biography

Raised in New Brunswick, Linda T. Caissie has a B.A. and M.A. in Sociology from the University of New Brunswick.  Her M.A. thesis is entitled “Gone Pishing: The Social World of Birding by Older Adults,” a study of the involvement of older adults in birdwatching and the meanings these older adults attach to this leisure world.   Her Ph.D. is from the University of Waterloo in Applied Health Science with a concentration on gender, aging, and leisure.   Her dissertation, “The Raging Grannies: Understanding the Role of Activism in the Lives of Older Women” is a study of the role of activism in the lives of older women involved in the activist group, the Raging Grannies in order to understand the experience of how and why older women become involved in activism. 

Dr. Caissie has taught gender, aging, and leisure at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario and has taught at St. Thomas University since 2005 in the Department of Gerontology.   She has also been a co-supervisor for a number of honours theses in the area of sociology of aging and has been an external examiner of MA theses in the area of gender and aging.   She currently sits as a board member of The Third Age Centre and serves as Faculty Advisor for the STU Student Gerontology Society.  Dr. Caissie is also member of Canadian Association on Gerontology (Social Science Division).