Christina Burr

Associate Professor, History
Graduate Faculty

Ph.D. History, Memorial University
M.A. Physical Education, University of Western Ontario
B.A. Physical Education, University of Western Ontario

2186 Chrysler Hall North
University of Windsor
Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4
tel. 519-253-3000 ext. 2321

burrc@uwindsor.ca

Research & Teaching Interests

History of the body, women and the media, Canadian history, labour history, women's history

Current Projects

I am working on a study of how the global marketing and advertising of women’s toiletries and cosmetics have shaped modern women’s beauty ideals, sometimes pointing to distinctive local situations, histories of nationalism, racial formations, global trade and the transnational flow of people and ideas. My work focuses on a case study of Unilever, the multinational British and Dutch soap manufacturer, examining their business records, consumer market surveys and advertising campaigns.

Selected Publications

''The Closest Thing to Perfect': Celebrity and the Body Politics of Jamie Lee Curtis" In Health and Popular Culture edited by Cheryl Krasnick Warsh. Ontario: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2009. Forthcoming.

Canada's Victorian Oil Town: The Transformation of Petrolia from Resource Town into a Victorian Community. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006.

Spreading the Light: Work and Labour Reform in Nineteenth Century Toronto. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.

Recent Graduate Students Supervised

Meganne Cameron, "Searching for Susanna Moodie: The Performance of Class, Gender, and Ethnicity in Roughing It In the Bush and The Victorian Magazine," Major Paper 2009.

Natalie Rubino, "Monitoring Morals and Molding the Ideal Student at Assumption University in the 1950s," Major Paper, 2009.

Erica Lyons, "Circulating a Culture of Fear: Redbook, Ladies' Home Journal and Good Housekeeping, 1950-1955," Major Paper 2008.

Tom Henderson, "The Strange Case of Joe Assef: The Windsor Police Corruption Scandal of 1950," Major Paper 2007.

Tanya Beilhartz, "Sexual Harassment in the 'City of Sin': Windsor, Ontario, 1965-1980," Major Paper 2006.

Courses Taught