Fonds 10-133 - Patrice LeClerc fonds

Dr. Patrice LeClerc is a retired Associate Professor of Sociology at University of St. Lawrence, New York. Prior to teaching at St. Lawrence, Dr. LecClerc taught at Concordia University in Montreal. Her research interests are in social policy comparisons of Canada, Quebec, and the United States, and she has written on health and medicine, women's movements, social movements, and nationalism in the three societies. She is currently at work on a book examining the development of nationalism and identity in New York and Ontario in the 1800s. Some of her most recent publications include: a chapter on Canada in Women 2000 (ed. Janet Mancini Billson) ; Women's Issues in Canadian Studies in the New Millennium, eds. Patrick James and Mark Kasoff ; an article in the Socialist Studies Bulletin with Kenneth Gould: The USA Patriot Act: Why We All Should Be Terrified ; and “The Big Smoke” Screen Toronto’s G20 Protests, Police Brutality, and the Unaccountability of Public Officials" Socialist Studies / Études socialistes, 7(1/2) Spring/Fall 2011: 282‐302. She has taught numerous courses on nationalism, comparative historical methods, women's movements, social movements, women social theorists and medical sociology and social policy. Her academic interests, teaching, and life choices are intertwined. Dr. LeClerc also served the Society for Socialist Studies as Book Review Editor for five years, and on its Editorial Collective. She also has been on the Executive Committee of the American Council for Canadian Studies, and is an active member of the Association for Quebec Studies in the United States.