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Sharon Leigh Myers
Name:
Sharon Leigh Myers
Email:
shmyers@upei.ca
Position:
Interim Dean, Faculty of Arts
Department:
Dean of Arts
Phone:
902-566-0699
Building:
SDU Main Building 411
Island Scholar:
Island Scholar Biography

Interim Dean of Arts; Associate Professor, History

BA (Mt. Allison); MA (St. Mary's); PhD (UNB)

Sharon Myers' publications about women and children in the Maritimes have appeared in Separate Sphere: Women's Worlds in the 19th-Century Maritimes (Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 1994); Children's Voices in Atlantic Literature and Culture: Essays on Childhood (Guelph: Children's Literature Press, 1995); Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History, 3rd ed. (Toronto: Oxford Press, 1997); and Dictionary of Canadian Biography,Vol XIV (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998).

Her most recent project focuses on the New Brunswick Child Welfare Survey, 1927-1933, and considers the dynamics among the family, civil society, and the state. Sharon teaches courses in modern Canadian history, including courses in women's, social, and cultural history.

Research Interests
  • History of women and work
  • Family history (deviance, etc.)
  • Child welfare

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