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<font face="Garamond">Dear Colleagues<br>
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We welcome you to attend Shirley Tillotson’s presentation, “How to
Write a New Political History for Contemporary Democracy,” on <b>Friday,
October 22</b>, <b>2:30pm-4pm</b>, <b>Hagey Hall 280</b>. We
</font><font face="Garamond">encourage</font><font face="Garamond">
you to </font><font face="Garamond">invite</font><font
face="Garamond"> your colleagues, interested friends, and students
to attend as well.<br>
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Professor Tillotson’s work addresses the fragmentation of History
as a discipline, the connection between public and private
politics, and the interaction of state and society. By looking at
the history of taxation, Professor Tillotson arrives at a working
definition of “democratization” and the capacity for citizens to
exercise a degree of control over the state.<br>
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Many thanks for your support to promote Professor Tillotson's
work.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Susan Wismer, IS Director<br>
Ext 38383<br>
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Professor Tillotson’s Academic & Professional Achievements:<br>
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SHIRLEY TILLOTSON is a Professor of History at Dalhousie
University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She graduated with her BIS
from the University of Waterloo in 1978 and received her MA in
1988 and PhD in 1992 from Queen’s University. Like many
Independent Studies graduates, her interests and skills are
diverse. Before entering graduate school, Shirley worked in
graphic production. Since receiving her first full-time academic
appointment in 1994, Shirley has become a highly regarded scholar,
administrator, teacher, and graduate supervisor. Her research is
credited with launching a number of new topics in Canadian
scholarly research, notably in human rights and taxation history.
In 2009, she won the Hilda Neatby Prize, for best English-language
article in Canadian women’s history, for “The family as tax dodge:
partnership, individuality, and gender in the personal income tax
Act, 1942 to 1970,” published in the Canadian Historical Review.
Her most recent book is Contributing Citizens: modern charitable
fund raising and the making of the welfare state, 1920-1966,
published by UBC Press (2008). </font><font face="Garamond">Professor
Tillotson is one of this year's recipients of the Annual Arts in
Academics award being presented on October 22nd.</font><br>
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