Joan Grace

Title: Professor and Department Chair
Phone: 204.786.9377
Office: 6L16
Building: Lockhart Hall
Email: j.grace@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:

Joan Grace holds a BA (Honours) from the University of Victoria, a MPA from the U of Winnipeg/U of Manitoba joint MPA Program, and a PhD in political science from McMaster University.  In the Department, Joan teaches undergraduate and graduate courses focusing most often in the areas of Canadian politics, social movements & interest groups, public policy and comparative federalism.

Joan has presented her research findings at national and international conferences.  Her articles have appeared in academic journals and edited scholarly collections.  Joan is an internationally recognized expert in feminist institutionalism.  She is a founding member of GenParlNet (Gender-focused Parliamentary Institutions Research Network) and is currently the Canadian participant in the international network of scholars called Gender Equality Policy in Practice (GEPP) researching women’s participation on corporate boards and pay equity in Canada. 

Dedicated to the success of the department and the advancement of the study of political science, Joan was awarded the Robin H. Farquhar Award for Excellence in Contributing to Self-Governance at the University of Winnipeg.

Research Interests:

State architectures, gender & institutions, policy advocacy, gender-based analysis

Publications:

Selected Publications:

Journal Article. Wieslawa Dominika Wranik, Rosemary McGowan, Linda DeRiviere, Isabelle Caron, Joan Grace, Maude Boulet and Katherine Sara Filbee. 2023. “Staying Motivated: The Study Protocol for a Life-Course Analysis of the Career Paths of Canadian Public Servants, International Journal of Qualitative Methods, January-December, Vol 22, 2023.

Journal Article. With Linda DeRiviere, University of Winnipeg and Dominika Wranik, Dalhousie University. “Gender and Public Sector Careers: The Motivations of Master of Public Administration Students”, Canadian Public Administration, Vol 64(3), 2021.

Co-editor, Book.  Jill Vickers, Joan Grace and Cheryl Collier.  Handbook on Gender, Diversity and Federalism.  (UK: Edward Elgar Publishers, 2020).

Contribution to E-Book. “Manitoba in Lockdown: Women” in A. Rounce and K. Levasseur, eds., COVID-19 in Manitoba: Public Policy and the Pandemic. (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2020).

Contribution to E-Book. “Woman and the 2019 Manitoba Election” in R. Koop, B. Ferguson, K. Levasseur, A. Rounce and K. Ladner, eds., Understanding the Manitoba Election 2019: Campaigns, Participation and Issues. (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2019).