AMANDA RICCI McGill University

AMANDA RICCI
McGill University
[email protected]
2079 rue St. Urbain, Montreal, Quebec H2X 2N1 514-476-1820
EDUCATION
2009-2015
Ph.D History – McGill University, Department of History
Dissertation: There’s No Place Like Home: Feminist Communities, Social
Citizenship and (Un)Belonging in Montreal’s Long Women’s Movement,
1952-1992. Defense: 20 November 2015.
Advisors: Professor John Zucchi, Professor Suzanne Morton
Fields: Canada Post-Confederation; 20th Century United States; Gender
2007-2009
M.A History. – Université de Montréal, Department of History
Thesis: From Acculturation to Integration: The Political Participation of
Montreal’s Italian-Canadian Community in an Urban Context, 1945-1990
Advisor: Professor Michèle Dagenais
Mention d’excellence, Top 10%
Nominated for the Prix de la Fondation Jean-Charles Bonenfant, an
award given by the National Assembly for a thesis on Quebec political
history
2003-2007
B.A. (Honours) History – Queen’s University
Exchange to Université de Lumière Lyon II (France) as part of the
Ontario-Rhône-Alpes Student Exchange Program in 2005-2006
ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS:
2013-2014
Montreal History Group, Graduate Student Stipend ($10,000)
2010-2013
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, JosephArmand-Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship ($35,000/year)
2009 Four-year funding package, McGill University ($18,000/year)
2008
Co-winner of the Prix des professeurs en histoire canadienne, given to the
master’s student with the highest cumulative grade point average in
Canadian history, Université de Montréal ($500)
PUBLICATIONS
• Peer-Reviewed Publications:
“Searching for Zion: Pan African Feminist Thought and Practice in English-speaking
Black Montreal (1967-1977).” Left History 17, 1 (Spring/Summer 2013): 43-74.
• Accepted:
“Contesting the Nation(s): Haitian and Mohawk Women’s Activisms in Quebec” in
Women’s Activism and “Second Wave” Feminism: Transnational Histories, eds. Barbara
Molony and Jennifer Nelson. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2016. (Anticipated)
“Bâtir une communauté citoyenne: Le militantisme chez les femmes autochtones pendant
les années soixante et soixante-dix.” Recherches amérindiennes au Québec. 30pgs.
• Non Peer-Reviewed Publications:
“I veneti nel Quebec del XX secolo (The Veneti in 20th Century Quebec).” trans.
Emanuele Oriano in Veneti in Canada (The Veneti in Canada), ed. Gianpaolo Romanato,
106-124. Ravenna: Angelo Longo Editore e Regione del Veneto, 2011.
“La participation des Italiens à la vie municipale montréalaise au cours des années 1950.”
Cap-aux-Diaments n.102 (2010): 29-30.
• Book Reviews:
Whoever Gives Us Bread: The Story of Italians in British Columbia by Lynne Bowen in
Canadian Historical Review 94, 2 (2013): 327-329.
Through Feminist Eyes: Essays on Canadian Women’s History by Joan Sangster in
Social History/Histoire Sociale 46, 91 (2013): 258-260.
Les nouveaux territoires de l’ethnicité edited by Xavier Leloup and Martha Radice in the
Urban History Review / Revue d’histoire urbaine 37, 2 (2009): 65-66.
CONFERENCE PAPERS :
“Le féminisme transnationale et la ville de Montréal: du local au global,” Paper presented
at the Journée d’étude: Les femmes et la ville. Bruxelles-Montréal XIXe-XXe siècles.
Centre d’études nord-américaines de l’Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium,
March 24th, 2015.
“Le mouvement féministe de “deuxième vague” au Canada/Québec (1967-1982),” paper
presented in the graduate level course Minorités dans une société « multiculturelle » ou
«interculturelle » L’exemple du Canada. Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels,
Belgium, March 16th, 2015.
“Le féminisme des femmes immigrantes et Amérindiennes à Montréal des années 1960 à
1980 dans ses dimensions locales et transnationales,” Paper presented at the Maison des
Sciences Humaines/Université Angers, Angers, France, March 10th, 2015.
“Un féminisme inclusif? La Fédération des femmes du Québec et les femmes
immigrantes, 1966-1992,” Paper presented at Congrès de l’Institut d’histoire de
l’Amérique française, Quebec City, Quebec, October 16th-18th, 2014.
“Transformative Feminism: Anti-Racist Politics and Women’s Activism in Montreal,”
Paper presented at Political Mobilization and Citizen Engagement in Québec and Canada,
Montreal, Quebec, October 2nd-4th, 2014.
“Contesting the Nation(s): Haitian and Mohawk Women’s Activisms in Quebec, 19671977,” Paper presented at the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Toronto,
Ontario, May 22nd-25th, 2014.
“Haitian Women in Montreal,” Paper presented at the A Revolutionary Moment:
Women’s Liberation in the late 1960s and early 1970s Conference, Boston,
Massachusetts, March 28th-29th, 2014.
“Contesting the Nation(s): Feminist Challenges from Montreal, 1967-1977,” Paper
presented at the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Denver,
Colorado, August 8th-10th, 2013.
“Gendering the Diaspora: Pan-African Feminist Thought and Practice in 1970s
Montreal,” Paper presented at the Quebec and the World: Foundations, Regions, Actors
and Issues Authors’ Workshop, Montreal, Quebec, November 15th-17th, 2013.
“Bâtir une communauté citoyenne: le militantisme chez les femmes autochtones pendant
les années soixante et soixante-dix,” Paper presented at the Congrès de l’Institut
d’histoire de l’Amérique française, Trois-Rivières, Quebec, October 18th-20th, 2012.
“Building Bridges, Breaking down Barriers: English-Speaking Caribbean Women’s
Activism in 1970s Montreal,” Paper presented at the Canadian Historical Association
Annual Meeting, Waterloo, Ontario, May 28th-30th, 2012.
“Race and Ethnicity in the Quebec Women’s Movement: A Transatlantic Perspective,
1967-2007,” Paper presented at the Europe-Migration-Identity Seminar (hosted by the
University of Minnesota and the German Historical Institute), Minneapolis, Minnesota,
August 25th-27th, 2011.
“Towards an Understanding of the Place of Immigrant Women and their Feminisms in
Quebec’s Second-Wave Feminist Movement,” Paper presented at the Montreal History
Group May Day Colloquium, Montreal, Quebec, May 5th and 6th, 2011.
“Immigrant Feminism? Refuting Stereotypes, Asserting Difference: The Case of the
Montreal Italian Women’s Centre,” Paper presented at the Queen’s-McGill Graduate
Student Conference in History, Kingston, Ontario, March 11th-12th, 2011.
“De l’acculturation à l’intégration : la participation politique de la communauté italocanadienne de Montréal, dans un contexte urbain (1945-1990),” Paper presented at the
Congrès de l’Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française, Montreal, Quebec, October 15th17th, 2009.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
McGill University:
Lecturer for HIST 203: Survey: Canada since 1867 (Winter 2014)
Teaching Assistant for HIST 353: History of Montreal (Fall 2015)
Teaching Assistant for HIST 203: Survey: Canada since 1867 (Winter 2013)
Teaching Assistant for HIST 303: History of Quebec (Fall 2012)
ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE:
University of British Columbia:
Research Assistant for Professor Tina Loo (Summer 2013-December 2013)
University of Toronto:
Research Assistant for Professor Sean Mills (Fall 2010-Winter 2011)
Université de Montréal :
Research Assistant, Contractual Translator for Professor Michèle Dagenais
(Winter 2008)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP AND SERVICE:
• Co-organizer (with Carolynn McNally) McGill Speakers’ Series Event: Jennifer
Guglielmo (Smith College) Living the Revolution: Recovering the Lost Histories
of Italian Immigrant Women's Anarchist Feminism in the United States
(September 2013)
• Graduate Student Representative, Canadian Committee on Women’s History
(July 2013-July 2015)
• Webmaster for the Montreal History Group (Winter 2012-May 2014)
• Member of the Montreal History Group (Winter 2010-Present)
• Graduate Student Representative, Department of History and Classical Studies
Speakers’ Series (Fall 2011-Winter 2013)
• Compiled the bibliography for the Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique Française (Fall
2009-Fall 2012)
LANGUAGES:
English (Native speaker)
French (Advanced -Speaking, Reading, Writing)
Italian (Intermediate -Speaking, Reading, Writing)
Spanish (Queen’s University, 2 years)