Sara Burke



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Sara Burke

Associate Professor

History
Humanities and Social Sciences

705.675.1151 ext. 4201
A-254
Sudbury Campus

Education
  • Ph.D. History (Carleton)
  • M.A. History (McMaster)
  • B.A. History (Toronto)
Research Focus

Sara Burke's area of research is the history of women in higher education in Canada. Her current project explores the access of women to higher education in the nineteenth century, and the experience of women in coeducational universities before 1930.

Awards
  • 2009 Marion Dewar Prize in Canadian Women's History, National Capital Committee on the Scholarship, Preservation and Dissemination of Women's History
  • 2000 Canadian History of Education Association Founders' Prize, Best English Language Article on the History of Education in Canada
  • 1995 Canadian Historical Association John Bullen Prize, Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis on a Historical Topic Submitted in a Canadian University

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