TEAM
Dr. Elise Chenier
Elise Chenier is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University. Her research concerns aspects of sex, gender, race and sexuality in twentieth century Canada and the United States, and she makes extensive use of oral history methodologies. She has been working in the digital humanities since 2010 when she launched the Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony, an online oral history archives housed in Simon Fraser University’s Bennett Library alotarchives.org. Recent publications include “The Natural Order of Disorder: Pedophilia, Stranger Danger and the Normalising Family,” Sexuality & Culture (15 October 2011), “Class, Gender, and the Social Standard: The Montreal Junior League, 1912-1939,” Canadian Historical Review 90:4 (December 2009) and “Hidden from Historians: Preserving Lesbian Oral History in Canada.” Archivaria 68 (Fall 2009). Her book Strangers in Our Midst: Sexual Deviancy in Postwar Ontario (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008) won an honourable mention for the Canadian Law and Society Book Prize.
CMDC Team
Students from The Creative Media & Digital Culture program at Washington State University Vancouver designed and produced this web book. Natascha Robinson served as the Project Manager and Lead Designer; Mychael Jones, the Content Specialist; and Alexandrea Chaudoin, the Lead Coder. Also assisting with the completion of the project were Greg Philbrook, CMDC Instructional Technology Specialist, and Aaron Wintersong, CMDC Technology Consultant. The team was led by Dr. Dene Grigar, Director and Associate Professor of the CMDC Program.
Interracial
Intimacies
SEX AND RACE IN TORONTO
1910 to 1950
