Post-Doc, Center for European Studies
Thesis Title: Raising Fathers, Raising Boys: Informal Education and Enculturation in Britain, 1880-1914
Judith Surkis
Elizabeth Elbourne
About
Stephanie Olsen currently holds a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship, supervised by Elizabeth Elbourne at McGill University and Judith Surkis at Harvard University. She will be a postdoctoral fellow at the The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, for the 2009-10 academic year. Her project is entitled “Towards the Modern Male Citizen: Psychology, Adolescence and the Informal Education of Boys in Britain, 1880-1914.” Her doctoral dissertation, “Raising Fathers, Raising Boys: Informal Education and Enculturation in Britain, 1880-1914,” was supervised by Brian Lewis, Elizabeth Elbourne and Michèle Cohen. Stephanie held doctoral scholarships from SSHRC (Canada Graduate Scholarship) and the Fondation Ricard, and was the beneficiary of a research fellowship at Princeton University. She graduated with an MA in History from the University of British Columbia, a BA (Hons.) in International Studies from Glendon College (York University) and an IB from Pearson United World College. Her research interests include gender, religion, education, childhood and publishing in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. She has published three articles on these topics.
In the UK, she has given papers at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and York, and has also presented at UC Berkeley, the University of Auckland and at the Canadian Historical Association. Stephanie is affiliated with the North American Conference on British Studies, the Canadian Historical Association, the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth, and the Institute of Historical Research in London. She is the founder of the annual McGill-Queen’s Graduate Conference in History. At McGill, she has lectured on twentieth-century Britain and taught the seminar “Women and Gender in Modern Britain.”
Contact Information
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