Identity area
Type of entity
Authorized form of name
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
History
Professor Maureen FitzGerald is an educator, writer, and oral historian who taught from 1977-2009 in the Transitional Year Programme at the University of Toronto, and who helped found the Sexual Diversity Studies Program, serving as its second Director, from 2000-2006.
Born in Toronto, she received her BA from the University of Toronto in 1964 and from Northwestern University a PhD (Anthropology) in 1977 with a thesis titled “The Structure and Content of Friendship: An Analysis of Friendships of Urban Cameroonians”.
She began teaching anthropology at the U of T in 1972 and joined the Transitional Year Program (TYP) as a Senior Lecturer in 1977. In addition to her role in the TYP, as an alumna of the University of Toronto she helped form, activate and maintain the Rainbow Triangle Alumni Association from 1995–2000.
From 1985-1990, she worked part-time as the Managing Editor of the Women’s Press. In addition, she was a member of the Lesbians Making History Collective, a small organization of women, based in Toronto, who collected in the mid-1980s the oral histories of older lesbian women about their experiences as ‘out’ lesbians in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.
More recent activities include co-curating with Don McLeod and Scott Rayter the exhibit Queer CanLit at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (2008), co-editing with Scott Rayter Queerly Canadian: An Introductory Reader in Sexuality Studies (Canadian Scholars Press, 2012) and co-editing the book Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer (Coach House Books, 2017) with Stephanie Chambers, Jane Farrow, Ed Jackson, John Lorinc, Tim McCaskell, Rebecka Sheffield, Tatum Taylor, and Rahim Thawer.
FitzGerald lives in Toronto with her partner Amy Gottlieb.
The ways in which the creators of archival records identify themselves and are identified by others is a key contextual aspect of understanding their perspectives and approach. Maureen FitzGerald is socially understood as a white lesbian woman. This information is based on an assessment of the archival records made by the processing archivist.
Places
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Language(s)
Script(s)
Sources
- Curriculum vitae – B2021-0006/002(06)
- Maureen FitzGerlad, Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, https://sds.utoronto.ca/people/steering-committee/maureen-fitzgerald/
- “Lesbians Making History: Oral History Project”, The ArQuives, https://digitalexhibitions.arquives.ca/exhibits/show/lmh_oralhistories/lesbians-making-history
- “Lesbians Making History Collective fonds”, The ArQuives, https://collections.arquives.ca/link/descriptions22753