Magda Fahrni

Magda Fahrni is a professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal, where she teaches women’s history, family history, and the history of twentieth-century Québec and Canada. Her monograph on the 1940s, entitled Household Politics: Montreal Families and Postwar Reconstruction (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), was awarded the Clio-Québec Prize by the Canadian Historical Association in 2006. She is also the author of Of Kith and Kin: A History of Families in Canada (Don Mills: Oxford University Press Canada, 2022) and with Gail Cuthbert Brandt, Naomi Black, and Paula Bourne, she is the co-author of the 3rd edition of Canadian Women: A History (Toronto: Nelson, 2011). She co-edited, with Robert Rutherdale, Creating Postwar Canada: Community, Diversity, and Dissent (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008) and, with Esyllt W. Jones, Epidemic Encounters: Influenza, Society, and Culture in Canada, 1918-20 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2012).

Magda Fahrni is currently working on a new monograph on risk and accidents in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Montréal. She also co-edits the McGill-Queen’s University Press series entitled Studies on the History of Quebec.