Jane McGaughey, Concordia University

Research

hospitals asylums migration mothers motherhood colonialism gender medical ethics

Latest funding

Mothers in the Time of Cholera: Motherhood, Migration, and Pandemics in the Canadian Colonial Medical System, 1817-1867
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$39,351
Mothers in the Time of Cholera: Motherhood, Migration, and Pandemics in the Canadian Colonial Medical System, 1817-1867
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$20,877
Gender, Migration, and Madness: Treating the Bodies and Minds of Irish Men and Irish Women in Canadian Lunatic Asylums, 1841-1868
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$34,123

Mothers in the Time of Cholera: Motherhood, Migration, and Pandemics in the Canadian Colonial Medical System, 1817-1867

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: McGaughey, Jane G.V.

Keywords: hospitals; asylums; migration; mothers; motherhood; colonialism; gender; medical ethics; Canada; Quebec; discrimination; pregnancy; disease; pandemics; quarantine; social acceptance; newspapers; government; power

$39,351

Mothers in the Time of Cholera: Motherhood, Migration, and Pandemics in the Canadian Colonial Medical System, 1817-1867

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: McGaughey, Jane G.V.

Keywords: hospitals; asylums; migration; mothers; motherhood; colonialism; gender; medical ethics; Canada; Quebec; discrimination; pregnancy; disease; pandemics; quarantine; social acceptance; newspapers; government; power

$20,877

Gender, Migration, and Madness: Treating the Bodies and Minds of Irish Men and Irish Women in Canadian Lunatic Asylums, 1841-1868

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: McGaughey, Jane

Keywords: (1) Insanity; (2) Irish; (3) Gender; (4) Sexuality; (5) Migration; (6) Imperialism; (7) Medical Treatment; (8) Great Irish Famine; (9) Incarceration; (10) Colonialism

$34,123

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: hospitals Dear Professor McGaughey, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on hospitals connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Mothers in the Time of Cholera: Motherhood, Migration, and Pandemics in the Canadian Colonial Medical System, 1817-1867" (2022), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]