| Burr, Christina |
| Howsam, Leslie |
| Huffaker, Shauna |
| Kulisek, Larry |
| Lazure, Guy |
| McCrone, Kathleen |
| Mohamed, Mohamed |
Nelson, Robert
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| Palmer, Steven |
| Pole, Adam |
| Simmons, Christina |
| Way, Peter |
| Wright, Miriam |
History
University of Windsor
Room 2164 CHN, 401 Sunset
Windsor Ontario N9B 3P4
email: history@uwindsor.ca
telephone: 519-253-3000
ext. 2318 |  | Faculty Information Sheet
McCrone, Kathleen
Office location: 2178 CHN
Office Ext: 253-3000 ext. 2328
Email address: kem@uwindsor.ca
Position: Professor, Faculty,
Personal Statement and Research
Dr. McCrone was appointed to the University of Windsor faculty in 1968. She served from 1978-81 as Head of the Department of History, and 1990-2002 as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. After a two-year administrative leave, during which she did research in England, Dr. McCrone returned to the History Department in 2004 to teach undergraduate courses in the history of England. She was appointed Director of the university's Humanities Research Group, 2004-06.
Dr. McCrone's research speciality, since she was doctoral student, has been the history of women in Victorian England. She has published in the areas of female philanthropy, the education of women, the women's movement, and women and sport, supported by several grants from the SSHRC. Her current research involves women and music, c. 1850-1920, and the suffragettes and sport.
Dr. McCrone has been active in professional service, serving on the University of Windsor Senate and Board of Governors, the Council of the Canadian Historical Association, the Council of Ontario Universities, and as the Chair of Canadian Council of Dean of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. In the realm of community service, she was on the Board of Directors of the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, 1993-2005 (Chair, 2001-03), and is currently a member of the Board of the Arts Council of Windsor and Chair of the Board of the London Goodenough Association of Canada.
Publications...
"Blanche Hillyard", Vol. 27, 240-41, "Lady Margaret Scott", Vol. 48, 441-42, and "Margaret Stansfeld", Vol. 52, 261-62, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, eds. Colin Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
"Playing the Piano and Playing the Game: Culture and Physical Culture in Victorian and Edwardian Girls' Public Schools" in The Private Schooling of Girls: Past and Present, ed. Geoffrey Walford. London: Woburn Press, 1993- 33-55.
"Class, Gender and English Women's Sport, 1890-1914", Journal of Sport History 18, 1 (Spring 1991): 159-82.
"Emancipation or Recreation: The Development of Women's Sport at London University", International Journal of the History of Sport 7, 2 (September 1990): 204-29.
Play Up! Play Up! and Play the Game: Sport and the Physical Emancipation of English Women, 1870-1914. London: Routledge/Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988.
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