Degrees: Ph.D. Toronto

Email: alisonp@uvic.ca | Office: Clearihue

History of women/gender; history of education; Canadian

Alison Prentice taught for three years at York University before moving to the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in 1975. She became an adjunct professor in the University of Victoria History Department in 1996 and fully retired from OISE in 1998. She has been active in the Canadian Historical Association and the Canadian Committee on Women's History, was founding chair of the Ontario Women's History Network, and is currently secretary of the Women's History Network of BC. Specializing first in the history of 19th century education, her focus is now on gender and the teaching profession and the history of women and higher education in Canada.

Co-editer: Challenging Professions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Women's Professional Work (University of Toronto Press, 1999)

Creating Historical Memory: English-Canadian Women and the Work of History (University of British Columbia Press, 1997)

Women Who Taught: Perspectives on the History of Women and Teaching (University of Toronto Press, 1991)

Co-author: Canadian Women: A History (Harcourt Brace, 2nd edit. 1998) Schooling and Scholars in Nineteenth-Century Ontario (University of Toronto Press, 1988)

Author: The School Promoters: Education and Social Class in Mid-Nineteenth Century Upper Canada (McClelland and Stewart, 1977)