Sara MacDonald

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

• 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’éducation 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’éducation 23, no. 1 (2011): 81-6
• Burke, Sara Z. “Students.”  In Laurentian University: 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 Laurentian University 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'éducation 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