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Karen Dubinsky

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Karen Dubinsky teaches in the departments of Global Development Studies and History. She has published and edited books on a wide variety of topics, including the history of gender and sexuality in Canada (Improper Advances: Rape and Heterosexual Conflict in Ontario, 1880-1929 and The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooners, Heterosexuality and the Tourist Industry at Niagara Falls;the global 1960s (New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness;adoption and child migration in Canada, Cuba and Guatemala (Babies Without Borders: Adoption and Migration Across the Americas); the politics of music in Cuba (My Havana: The Musical City of Carlos Varela). She has co-edited two recent anthologies about Canada and the world (Within and Without the Nation: Transnational Canadian History and Canada and the Third World: Overlapping Histories). Her most recent book is .

She is currently working on two projects.  One is an SSHRC funded study of Canadian Cuban non-state relations, especially cultural, musical, educational and Development ties.  With Dr. Freddy Monasterio she is the producer of Cuban Serenade a podcast series on the history of Cuban musicians in Canada.    She is also working on a project on the iconography of children in global social and political movements.  

She is a recipient of two teaching awards:  the 成人大片 Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision and the Queen鈥檚 Award for International Educational Innovation

Selected Publications

Publications

  • Karen Dubinsky, Adele Perry and Henry Yu (eds.) Within and Without the Nation: Transnational Canadian History (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016.)
  • Karen Dubinsky, Sean Mills, Scott Rutherford (eds.) Canada and The Third World: An Historical Introduction (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2016)
  • Caridad Cumana, Karen Dubinsky and Xenia Reloba (eds.) My Havana: The Musical City of Carlos Varela (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014)
  • Karen Dubinsky, Caridad Cumana and Xenia Reloba (eds) Hab谩name: La Ciudad Musical de Carlos Varela (La Habana, Centro Pablo de la Torriente Brau, 2013)
  • Babies Without Borders: Adoption and Migration Across the Americas(University of Toronto Press and New York University Press, 2010)
  • Karen Dubinsky, Catherine Krull, Susan Lord, Sean Mills and Scott Rutherford (eds.) New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness (Toronto: Between the Lines Press, 2009)
  • The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagara Falls (Toronto: Between the Lines and New Brunswick New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, May, 1999)
  • Improper Advances: Rape and Heterosexual Conflict in Ontario, 1880-1929 (University of Chicago Press, 1993) Book in progress: Children, Ideology, Iconography: How Babies Rule the World

In Progress

Friends of Convenience? Cuban Canadian Non-Governmental Relations

Awards and recognition
  • 2016 Queen鈥檚 University Award for International Educational Innovation (with co-teacher S. Lord), a teaching prize awarded for Global Development Studies course 鈥淐uban Culture and Society鈥
  • 2007 Queen鈥檚 University Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision
Graduate supervision
  • Transnational Canada
  • Canada/Global South relations (especially Cuba)
  • Cuban musical cultures
  • Canadian gender/sexuality
  • the global politics of childhood
  • Canadian history of tourism/popular culture

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