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Shirley Tillotson

Professor Emeritus and Inglis Professor, University of King's College


Email: shirley.tillotson@dal.ca
Mailing Address: 
Room 1158, Marion McCain Building, 6135 University Ave
PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Canadian history
  • Taxation history
  • Charities and philanthropy
  • Gender and sexuality
  • Social movements
  • Nova Scotia


Education

  • BIS (Waterloo)
  • MA (Queen鈥檚)
  • PhD (Queen鈥檚)

Selected publications

  • Give and Take:听 The Citizen-Taxpayer and the Rise of Canadian Democracy.听 Vancouver:听 UBC Press, 2017
  • Contributing Citizens:听 Modern Charitable Fundraising and the Making of the Welfare State,1920-66. Vancouver:听 UBC Press, 2008.
  • The Public at Play: Gender and the Politics of Recreation in Postwar Ontario. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.
  • Importing the Plantation: The Greater Caribbean and Loyalist Nova Scotia鈥檚 Public Revenue. Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society听25 (2022): 1-26
  • Community and Expertise in Canadian Democracy since 1920, "in听Constant Struggle: Histories of Canadian Democratization". Eds. Julien Mauduit and Jennifer Tunnicliffe. Montreal: McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2021. 355-89.
  • The Canadian Historical Review at One Hundred Years, Canadian Historical Review, 100, 3 (2019): 315-4

Awards and honours

  • 2019 Recipient of the Governor General鈥檚 History Award for Scholarly Research for Give and Take:听 the Citizen-Taxpayer and the Rise of Canadian Democracy.
  • Shortlisted for the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize 2008 and Harold Adams Innis Prize 2008-09 for Contributing Citizens: Modern Charitable Fundraising and the Making of the Welfare State, 1920-66.
  • Canadian Historical Association, Clio (Ontario) Award for Excellence, 2000 for The Public at Play: Gender and the Politics of Recreation in Postwar Ontario.

Current Research and Graduate teaching

Dr. Tillotson has retired from undergraduate teaching, but continues to participate in the History department's graduate program as a member of supervisory committees, and a participant in the Stokes seminar. 听听听