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Biography - Gaile McGregor, LL.B., Ph.D.

GAILE MCGREGOR is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario, and Director of Social Research for Terraconnaissance Inc., a London Ontario consulting company specializing in political communication, trend analysis, and interdisciplinary social and legal research. Holding graduate degrees in English and Sociology in addition to an LL.B., McGregor has written and taught extensively on Canadian and American social, cultural, and political history. Although her publications have contributed to a number of diverse fields, she is best known for a 1986 book entitled The Wacousta Syndrome: Explorations in the Canadian Langscape (University of Toronto Press), the first volume in a three-volume series of semio-ethnographic studies of post-frontier societies, which played a key role in shaping contemporary understandings of Canadian identity-formation.

Highlights of McGregor’s academic career include a SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship and a Fulbright Research Fellowship. Her doctoral thesis, on the psycho-typology of Australia, won a York University Faculty of Graduate Studies dissertation prize, and The Wacousta Syndrome was runner-up in 1987 for the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association’s John Porter Award. McGregor was a Canada Research Fellow in the Sociology Department at York University from 1989 to 1992. Her articles have appeared in an eclectic range of periodicals including, among others, The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, The Canadian Journal of Sociology, The Journal of Mind and Behaviour, American Studies, The Canadian Journal of American Studies, The Canadian Journal of Film Studies, The Journal of Canadian Studies, Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Cultural Studies Annual, and The Manitoba Law Journal.

Since the late nineties, McGregor’s primary research interest has been age discrimination in employment, particularly for women. For details of publications and current projects, see www3.sympatico.ca/terracon/gaile_mcgregor.