Catherine Gidney

BA (TORONTO), MA (QUEEN'S), PH.D. (QUEEN'S)

ADJUNCT RESEARCH PROFESSOR, HISTORY 

cgidney@stu.ca

Catherine Gidney is an Adjunct Research Professor of History at St. Thomas University. Her research focuses primarily on the history of education and youth culture in Canada, covering a range of topics such as health, religion, food, student protest, sport, sexuality, the 1960s, and commercialism. She is currently writing a book examining the history of mindfulness.

She has served on a variety of professional and scholarly organizations including the Canadian Historical Association, the Canadian Committee on Women’s History and the O’Brien Foundation. A former President of the Canadian History of Education Association, in 2016 she was elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.