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Areas of interest

*Research Interests*
Negotiations of gender and ethnicity; contested ethnic terrains and communal violence; interaction between formal and informal belief systems; cultural memory.

*Teaching Interests*
Pre-Confederation Canadian History; Ireland from Penal Era to Partition; Religion, Ethnicity, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Northern Ireland; Conceptualizing Atlantic Canada; Gender and History; Oral History-Theories and Practices. Creation and Re-creation of the Downtown Eastside.

Biography

I was born on the eastern edge of the easternmost province, where iron cliff-face meets the roiling waters of the North Atlantic. I am the granddaughter of fishers, and the daughter of a one-room-schoolteacher (later, human rights commissioner) and a cooperative fieldworker/labour newspaper editor (later, cabinet minister), who met when they were working on another west coast, in a resettled community on the Port-au-Port Peninsula. My own working background has been eclectic. I've been a barmaid, a teacher of music and dance, a researcher/writer, copy-editor, legal assistant, and secondary teacher before settling into academia. I came to 911³Ô¹Ï in 2005 and currently live in Kitsilano. I am still amazed to find myself in a place where I must face west to see the ocean and north to see the "Southside Hills."