Organizers - WSSS

Meet the Organizers for 2022/2023:

Kristine Alexander (she/her) is Canada Research Chair in Child and Youth Studies, associate professor of History, and co-director of the Institute for Child and Youth Studies at the University of Lethbridge. Her published and forthcoming books include the award-winning Guiding Modern Girls: Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s (UBC Press), A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age (Bloomsbury), and Small Stories of War: Children and Conflict in Canada and Beyond (forthcoming with MQUP). Kristine's current SSHRC-funded research focuses on age, race, and the history of Canadian settler colonialism.

Suzanne Lenon (she/her) is associate professor in the departments of Sociology & Women and Gender Studies. She teaches and researches in the areas of critical race feminisms and law, gender and sexuality, with a particular interest in marriage and inheritance laws as regimes of state-led social reproduction that sustain interlocking racial, gendered, and classed relations of power. Her work has been published in Canadian Journal of Women & the Law, Feminist Legal Studies, Feminist Formations, Social Identities, and the Studies in Social Justice, among others. She is co-editor with OmiSoore H. Dryden of Disrupting Queer Inclusion: Canadian Homonationalisms and the Politics of Belonging (UBC Press).