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.
Dernières nouvelles
Invitation to a collective book launch
Participation of MHG members in two study days
Publication of the anthology Écrire la ville
Invitation to the “COVID in the House of Old” exhibition
Participation of MHG members at the 75th IHAF congress
Magda Fahrni is admitted to the Royal Society of Canada
The GHM-MHG Attends the Berks