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Faculty of HS | School of Human Kinetics | Personnel

Eileen O'Connor

Telephone: (613) 562-5800 ext. 2443
Fax: (613) 562-5497
E-Mail Address: eoconnor@uottawa.ca
Office (building, room number): MNT 362

Rank

• Associate Professor
• Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

Biography

Eileen O’Connor is an Associate Professor in the School of Human Kinetics, and Affiliate Scientist at the Institute of Population Health (IPH). She obtained her Ph.D. in History from the University of Ottawa, and was a postdoctoral fellow in Health Sciences, University of Ottawa (2004). Her research focuses on socio-historical analyses of gender, health, hygiene, sport and leisure.  Eileen O’Connor’s doctoral research examined the negotiation of leisure pursuits for women in Victorian Canada through analysis of health risk framing and communication. Specifically, Dr. O’Connor examined the medical debate on women’s health through discourses on medical dress reform within the context of changing demographics and lifestyles in urbanized environments.  Her current research projects address the process of framing melanoma risks in sports (outdoor soccer) and leisure (sun tanning); health, hygiene and the development of public baths/pools in Canada; and projects to develop student educational web games on framing and communicating health risks.

Dr. O’Connor is member of the Women’s Health Research Unit at the IPH and co-investigator on a project exploring gender and support mechanisms in emergency preparedness; she is also member of the Institute of Women’s Studies and is currently co-editing a monograph on the history of the women’s movement. Her research has been funded by FQRSC, Associated Medical Services, CRTI and Health Canada, and is published in journals such as : Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Women and Language; Journal of Online Learning and Teaching; The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine;  Prehospital and Disaster Medicine; Journal of Emergency Management; and the American Journal of Disaster Medicine. She is member of the Canadian Historical Association; Canadian Committee on Women’s History; Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport, World Leisure; and MERLOT-Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching.  Dr. O’Connor is recipient of an Excellence in Teaching Award from the Faculty of Health Sciences, 2006-7.

University Degrees

Year	Degree	Specialty	Institution
	Postdoctorate	Health Sciences	University of Ottawa
	Ph.D.	History	University of Ottawa
	M.A.	History	Université Laval
	Cert Political Sciences		Université Laval
	B.A.		Trent/Universidad de Granada

Research Interests

• History of medicine, gender, sport and the body
• Constructions of risk in historical perspective
• Leisure and health
• Digital games and pedagogy