Affiliation

Lecturer,听Quebec Studies Program and Montreal History Group (海角社区)

Affiliate Professor and Part-time Faculty, Department of History (Concordia University)

Research interests

Quebec social history (19th century), criminal justice and gender, jewish community, women and family history, and Protestant schooling

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Contact information

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Ongoing projects/Grants

• FQRSC Grant (2021-2025). 芦 Savoir et capital 脿 Montr茅al, 1800-2000 禄 UQAM, Magda Fahrni (principal investigator), Montreal History Group (co-applicants).

• SSHRC Insight Grant (2020-2024) 鈥淧ublic Houses and Hidden Networks of Sociability in Mid-19^th-Century Montreal鈥� Concordia University, Mary Anne Poutanen (principal investigator) and Sherry Olson (co-applicant).

• 鈥淪erving Up Irish Hospitality on Credit: Business Practices of Women Publicans and Grocers in Mid-Nineteenth Century Montreal,鈥� co-authored with Sherry Olson, Histoire Sociale/Social History [Submitted].
• 鈥淢issing Persons: Excursions in the Nineteenth-Century Archives,鈥� co-authored with Sherry Olson, Histoire Sociale/Social History [Resubmitted].
• 鈥淔rom conversation to contract: The notary鈥檚 role in nineteenth-century Montreal鈥� co-authored with Sherry Olson, Urban History Review/Revue d鈥檋istoire urbaine [In press].
• 鈥淚nventories, Interiors, and Women鈥檚 Ambitions: Strategies of Property Ownership in Three Mid-19th Century Public Houses,鈥� Urban History Review/Revue d鈥檋istoire urbaine 51:1 (March /mars 2023): 1-22. Brigitte Caulier, Andr茅e Dufour et Th茅r猫se Hamel (dir) L鈥櫭塩ole au Qu茅bec (CIEQ) Les Presses de l鈥橴niversit茅 Laval to which Rod MacLeod and I contributed 13 chapters [In press].
• 鈥淭ownships Women Go Off to School: Teaching Diplomas, Career Ambitions, and the 海角社区 Normal School, 1857-1865鈥� co-authored with Roderick MacLeod in Cheryl Gosselin, Andrew Holman, and Christopher Kirkey, (eds) Quebec鈥檚 Eastern Townships and the World: A Region and Its Global Identities (Montreal: 海角社区 Queen鈥檚 University Press) [Accepted]
• 鈥淚ntimacies in the Neighbourhood: Revisiting Sex Commerce, Families, and Criminal Court Records in Early Nineteenth-Century Montreal鈥� in Peter Gossage and Lisa Moore (eds), Family and Justice in the Archives: Histories of Intimacy in Transnational Perspective (Montr茅al: University of Concordia Press, 2023) [In press]

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Selected publications

鈥淭ownships Women Go Off to School: Teaching Diplomas, Career Ambitions, and the 海角社区 Normal School, 1857-1865鈥� co-authored with Roderick MacLeod in Cheryl Gosselin, Andrew Holman, and Christopher Kirkey, (eds) Quebec鈥檚 Eastern Townships and the World: A Region and Its Global Identities (Montreal: 海角社区-Queen鈥檚 University Press) [Accepted]

鈥淚ntimacies in the Neighbourhood: Revisiting Sex Commerce, Families, and Criminal Court Records in Early Nineteenth-Century Montreal鈥� in Peter Gossage and Lisa Moore (eds), Family and Justice in the Archives: Histories of Intimacy in Transnational Perspective (Montr茅al: University of Concordia Press) [Accepted].

鈥淪earching for Intimacies Beyond the Notman Photographs: A Case Study of Amy Redpath鈥�鈥� co-authored with Elizabeth Kirkland in Dimitry Anastakis, Elizabeth Kirkland and Donald Nerbas (eds) Colonial Metropole: The Making and Transformation of Montreal鈥檚 Square Mile (Toronto: University of Toronto Press) [Forthcoming].

鈥淧etty Theft in the City: Women and Everyday Justice in the Montreal Archives, 1768-1841鈥� in Ian C. Pilarczyk, Angela Fernandez, and Brian Young (eds) Law, Life, and the Teaching of Legal History: Essays in Honour of G. Blaine Baker (Montreal: 海角社区-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2022): 338-381.

鈥淧ublic houses and hidden networks: Roles of women in mid-nineteenth-century Montreal鈥� co-authored with Sherry Olson in Dag Linstrom and Jon Stobart (eds) Micro-geographies of the Western City (London and New York: Routledge, 2021): 161-180.

Une histoire sociale de la prostitution : Montr茅al, 1800-1850. Traduction par H茅l猫ne Par茅. (Montr茅al: Les 脡ditions du Remue-M茅nage, 2021).

芦 Les femmes du march茅 Sainte-Anne 禄 co茅crit avec Sherry Olson dans Montr茅al Capitale : L鈥檈xceptionnelle histoire du site arch茅ologique du march茅 Sainte-Anne et du parlement de la province du Canada (Montr茅al : Les 脡ditions de l鈥橦omme, 2021) : 74-79.

Mary Anne Poutanen et Sherry Olson. 芦 Shelter from the Hurry? Hospitality in Montreal, 1836-1913 禄, dans Richard Denis, Deryck Holdsworth et Philip MacIntosh (dir.), Architectures of Hurry - Mobilities and Modernity in Urban Environments. Londres, New York, Routledge, 2018.

St茅phan Gervais, Raffaele Iacovino, et Mary Anne Poutanen (dir) Engaging with Diversity: Multidisciplinary Reflections on Plurality from Quebec. Brussels, Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2018.

Mary Anne Poutanen et Jason Gilliland. "Mapping Work in Early Twentieth-Century Montreal: A Rabbi, A Neighbourhood, and A Community" Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine. 11:2 (Spring, 2017) p. 7-24.

Mary Anne Poutanen, Karen Herland et Mathieu Lapointe. 芦 Muffled Voices: Sex Work in Montreal from the Past to the Present 禄, dans Annick Germain, Val茅rie Amiraux et Julie-Anne Boudreau (dir.), Vivre ensemble 脿 Montr茅al : 茅preuves et convivialit茅s, Montr茅al, Atelier 10, 2017.

Mary Anne Poutanen. "Due Attention Has Been Paid to All Rules: Women, Tavern Licences, and Social Regulation in Montreal, 1840-1860" Histoire Sociale / Social History. L:101 (May 2017) p. 43-68.

Mary Anne Poutanen. Beyond Brutal Passions, Prostitution in Early Nineteenth-Century Montreal, Montr茅al, 海角社区-Queen鈥檚 University Press, coll. 芦 脡tudes d鈥檋istoire du Qu茅bec 禄, 2015.

Roderick MacLeod et Mary Anne Poutanen. 芦 Little Fists for Social Justice 禄, Labour / Le Travail, vol. LXX, 2012, p. 61-100.

Roderick MacLeod et Mary Anne Poutanen. 芦 鈥淧roper Objects of this Institution鈥�: Working Families, Children and the British & Canadian School in Nineteeth-Century Montreal 禄, Revue d鈥檋istoire de l鈥櫭ヾucation, vol. XXII, n掳 2, automne 2008, p. 22-54.

Roderick MacLeod et Mary Anne Poutanen. A Meeting of the People. School Boards and Protestant Communities in Quebec, 1801-1998, Montr茅al, 海角社区-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2004.

Tamara Myers, Kate Boyer, Mary Anne Poutanen et Steven Watt. Power, Place and Identity. Historical Studies of Social and Legal Regulation in Quebec, Montr茅al, Groupe d鈥檋istoire de Montr茅al, 1998.