Franca Iacovetta

Iacovetta, Franca Ph.D. York

Professor, UTSC

f.iacovetta@utoronto.ca

(416) 287-7152
(416) 978-8472

Office: UTSC HW513 & SS 2060

Field: Women and gender, immigrants, minorities and comparative migration, social and labour history and transnational labour/militancy.

Franca Iacovetta is Professor of History and Co-editor of the Studies in Gender and History book series at University of Toronto Press. She is a Canadian social and feminist historian whose research interests include women’s and gender history, immigrants and racialized populations, working-class history, transnational labour migration and radicalism, and moral regulation and citizenship in Cold War Canada.

She is author or co-editor of nine books, including Such Hardworking People: Italian Immigrants in Postwar Toronto (MQUP 1992); Sisters or Strangers?: Immigrant, Ethnic and Racialized Women in Canadian History co-ed with M. Epp and F. Swyripa (Toronto 2003); Women, Gender and Transnational Lives: Italy’s Workers of the World co-ed with D. Gabaccia (UTP 2002); Enemies Within: Italian and Other Wartime Internments in Canada and Beyond co-ed with R. Perin and A. Principe (UTP 2000). The recipient of several major research awards, including the SSHRC Therese Casgrain Fellowship and University of Toronto Senior Connaught Fellowship , Dr. Iacovetta’s publications have also won a number of major article and book prizes, including, for her most recent monograph, Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold Ward Canada (Toronto, 2006), the Canadian Historical Association’s Sir John A. Macdonald prize for the best book in Canadian history (2008). A Research Fellow at the Immigration History Research Centre, University of Minnesota for 2008-09, her current book projects include a SSHRC-funded study of cultural pluralism in Canada (set within a North American context) and research on women radical exiles from Italy.