Barbara Crow is a Canadian sociologist and university administrator. She was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science of Queen's University and a professor at the Department of Sociology.

Education and career

Crow graduated from

York University York University (), also known as YorkU or simply YU), is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, and it has approximately 53,500 students, 7,000 faculty and staff, ...

in 1984 with a BA in

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

and

women's studies Women's studies is an academic field that draws on Feminism, feminist and interdisciplinary methods to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining Social constructionism, social and cultural constructs of gender; ...

, then went on to obtain an MA (in 1986) and a

PhD A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

(in 1994) from the same university. She started her career at the

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, becoming an

assistant professor Assistant professor is an academic rank just below the rank of an associate professor used in universities or colleges, mainly in the United States, Canada, Japan, and South Korea. Overview This position is generally taken after earning a doct ...

at the Faculty of General Studies in 1993, and was promoted to

associate professor Associate professor is an academic title with two principal meanings: in the North American system and that of the ''Commonwealth system''. In the ''North American system'', used in the United States and many other countries, it is a position ...

at the Faculty of Communication and Culture in 1999. She returned to her alma mater in 2001, having been appointed an associate professor at its Department of Communications in the Faculty of

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and Professional Studies and the Technology Enhanced Learning Chair. From 2009 to 2012, Crow was the Associate Dean Research of the Faculty, and became the Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning in 2012. In the same year, she succeeded Allan Hutchinson, assuming the roles of Associate Vice-President (AVP) Graduate and Dean of Faculty of Graduate Studies on an interim basis. She was officially appointed to these positions in 2014, starting her 5-year term in July that year. In December 2016, Queen's University announced the appointment of Crow as the new Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science. She began her 5-year term on July 1, 2017.

Research

Crow's research interests are interdisciplinary, involving the intersection of

feminism Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...

aging Ageing (or aging in American English) is the process of becoming Old age, older until death. The term refers mainly to humans, many other animals, and fungi; whereas for example, bacteria, perennial plants and some simple animals are potentiall ...

, and digital technology. She is a co-founder of the Mobile Media Lab, and a co-principal investigator on the Ageing + Communication + Technologies (ACT) Project. She was also the president of the Canadian Women’s Studies Association (name changed to Women’s and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes in 2010) between 2003 and 2004. Crow has been the editor of the

Canadian Journal of Communication The ''Canadian Journal of Communication'' publishes Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies, first published in 1974. "In pursuing this objective, particular attention is paid to research that has a distinctive C ...

, and some of her edited books include ''Radical Feminism: A Documentary Reader'', ''Open Boundaries: A Canadian Women's Studies Reader'' (3rd ed.) and ''The Wireless Spectrum: The Politics, Practices and Poetics of Mobile Communication''.

Personal life

Crow's husband is Michael Longford, an associate professor at the School of Art, Media, Performance and Design,

. They left a legacy gift in 2015, providing financial support to future York students. The Barbara Crow Graduate Student Leadership Award at York University is named after Crow.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Crow, Barbara Living people York University alumni Academic staff of Queen's University at Kingston Academic staff of York University Canadian academic administrators Canadian women academics Canadian academics of women's studies Canadian sociologists Year of birth missing (living people)