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I have a PhD in Political Science from York University (1996), specializing in Women’s Studies and Political Theory. While at school, I worked as a researcher-reporter at a number of Toronto-based magazines, and after graduating, moved into a variety of writing and editing positions at the national news magazine, Maclean's. Even as a full-time journalist, I kept in touch with the academic world, researching, writing and presenting work on social reproduction feminist theory.
One reason I left my position as Senior Writer at Maclean’s in 2005 to join Laurier Brantford’s then-fledgling journalism program was in order to pursue my growing research interest in childhood and children’s culture. I am now working on a book about the social reproduction of capitalist childhood. I continue to publish work on feminist theory, as well as popular culture, journalistic objectivity and political discourse.
I am currently a member of the revamped Digital Media and Journalism program, and am cross-appointed to Youth and Children’s Studies. I have a Graduate Studies appointment in Social Justice and Community Engagement as well.
My research interests span feminist political economy, the social reproduction of childhood, and public discourse and democracy. I see my scholarly work as an extension of a more general and practical commitment to advancing social justice and democracy.
- 2008: Nomination by THIS Magazine for National Magazine Award (Political Writing) for my feature article and cover story, “The New Apartheid: Inside the growing anti-Israel boycott,” THIS Magazine, September/October 2007.
- 2008: Best Newsstand Issue, Canadian Newsstand Awards, Small Magazine Category for September/October 2007 issue of THIS Magazine. (Award is based upon newsstand sales for issue in which my article “The New Apartheid: Inside the growing anti-Israel boycott” was featured as cover article.)
I am willing to supervise graduate students in the areas of feminist theory, childhood and capitalism, children’s culture, and public discourse.
- Ferguson, Susan and David McNally. “Precarious migrants: Gender, race and the social reproduction of a global working class.” Socialist Register 2015. (In press.)
- Ferguson, Susan. “Capitalist childhood in film: Modes of critique.” Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media 55. (2013).
- Cairns, James and Susan Ferguson. “The truth in embodied stories.” Journal of Canadian Studies. (2013)
- Ferguson, Susan. “Building on the strengths of the socialist feminist tradition.” Critical Sociology. (1999)