Mary Anne Poutanen

Mary Anne Poutanen teaches interdisciplinary studies at McGill University in the Programme d’études sur le Québec and at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and Quebec and Canadian history part-time in the Department of History at Concordia University where she is an affiliate professor. She is also a member of the Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires en études montréalaises at McGill. Mary Anne is the author of the book Beyond Brutal Passions: Prostitution in Early Nineteenth-Century Montreal, for which she received the Prix Lionel-Groulx in 2016. Her co-authored monograph with Roderick MacLeod, A Meeting of the People: School Boards and Protestant Communities in Quebec, 1801-1998, was the recipient of the Canadian History of Education Association’s 2006 Founder’s Prize and of the Canadian Association of Foundations of Education (CAFE) 2006 Book Award. A Meeting of the People was also short-listed for the 2004 Sir John A Macdonald Prize. Her current SSHRC-funded research focuses on the history of women’s multiple roles in Montreal public houses, a project titled “At the Bar: Women, Work, and Regulation in Montreal’s Hospitality Services, 1840-1870.”