Jacqueline Murray Explained

Jacqueline Murray (born October 1, 1953) is a Canadian medieval historian and professor emeritus of history at the University of Guelph.[1] Her research focuses on sexuality and gender in medieval Europe, with a specific focus on masculinity and male sexuality. She has also studied marriage and the family in the Middles Ages.[2]

Education and career

Murray received her bachelor with honours from the University of British Columbia in 1978. She then attended the University of Toronto, where she obtained her master's degree in History in 1979. She earned her doctorate at the University of Toronto's Centre for Medieval Studies in 1987.[3] She was a Canada Research Fellow with the Department of History at the University of Windsor from 1988 to 1991, and taught there as professor of history from 1988 to 2001.[4] At the University of Windsor she was founding Director of the Humanities Research Group.[5] She has worked as a professor at the University of Guelph since 2001, where she also served as dean of the College of Arts from 2001 to 2006 and director of First Year Seminars from 2011 to 2016.[6] Since 2001, Murray has been a Status Professor at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto.[7]

Murray served as chair of the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium from 1987 to 1989.[8] She was President of the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship from 1991 to 1993.[9] From 1998 to 2000, she was President of the Canadian Society of Medievalists.[10] Since 2001, Murray has been the co-editor on the Gender in the Middle Ages series published by Boydell & Brewer.[11]

Volunteer work and activism

On October 18, 2004, Murray organized a fundraising breakfast that raised funds for the Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan, a charitable organization dedicated to supporting women's education in Afghanistan. The event was held on Persons Day, which commemorates the 1929 decision by the British Privy Council which declared women persons under Canadian law.[12] Murray organized another charitable breakfast in support of the Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan on March 5, 2009.[13]

Murray has done considerable charitable and volunteer work in Ghana. In 2010, she participated in the Leave for Change program sponsored by the World University Service of Canada, where she spent three weeks in Accra, the Ghanaian capital.[14] Her work there was with Child Rights International, a Ghanaian non-governmental organization, a group that lobbies for the rights of children in Ghana'[15] Murray's work involved translating the Juvenile Justice Act into more accessible language for children, so that they understand their legal rights.[16]

Murray returned to Ghana in 2012–13, spending thirteen weeks in Accra as an Organizational Policy Advisor with the Non-Formal Education Division, established by Ghana's Ministry of Education to promote nationwide literacy for those that did not attend school.[17] Beyond her work as an advisor for NFED, Murray collaborated with the University of Guelph Library to donate computers to the NFED. Murray also established a crowd sourced project to raise money to replace old musical equipment for the Theatre for Development.[18]

Murray published several articles in newspapers, including the National Post and the Globe and Mail, in the early 2000s detailing the history of marriage, arguing against the notion that the institution of marriage has always been between a man and a woman.[19] In "Same-sex union: The final frontier of marriage evolution," Murray writes that marriage originally was only available to the wealthy of Ancient Rome. Over the centuries, marriage evolved to include the poor, slaves, members of the clergy, and more. Murray notes that the notion that these unions were purely for procreation is not supported by historical evidence, and that while it was rare, homosexual unions were recognized by Early Christian communities.[20] Murray's sworn testimony was used as evidence in Halpern v. Canada, in support of recognizing same-sex unions as legal under Ontario law.[21]

Awards and accomplishments

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jacqueline Murray College of Arts . 2022-08-09 . www.uoguelph.ca.
  2. Web site: Jacqueline Murray – Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies . 2022-08-09 . en-CA.
  3. Web site: Jacqueline Murray • University of Guelph Media Guide . 2022-08-09 . experts.uoguelph.ca.
  4. Web site: ExpertFile . Jacqueline Murray 3M National Teaching Fellow / Professor of History - Expert with University of Guelph ExpertFile . 2022-08-10 . expertfile.com . en.
  5. 1992 . Annonces / Announcements . Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme . 16 . 4 . 89–91 . 0034-429X.
  6. Web site: Jacqueline Murray College of Arts . 2022-08-10 . www.uoguelph.ca.
  7. Web site: Family Life in the Middle Ages . 2022-08-10 . obo . en.
  8. Web site: People Toronto Renaissance & Reformation Colloquium . 2022-08-10 . trrc.itergateway.org.
  9. Robertson . Elizabeth . 2006 . Twenty Years of Medieval Feminist Scholarship: Reflections on the Foundation of the Medieval Feminist Newsletter, the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, and the Medieval Feminist Forum . Medieval Feminist Forum . 42 . 1 . 20.
  10. Web site: The Canadian Society of Medievalists - About . 2022-09-12 . www.canadianmedievalists.org.
  11. Web site: Gender in the Middle Ages . 2022-08-10 . Boydell and Brewer . en-GB.
  12. Web site: Campus News: Persons Day breakfast to raise money for women in Afghanistan . 2022-08-10 . www.uoguelph.ca.
  13. Web site: Breakfast Supports Education for Women and Girls in Afghanistan University of Guelph . 2022-08-11 . www.uoguelph.ca.
  14. Web site: 2011-04-19 . Leave for Change Volunteer Impressed by Ghana . 2022-08-11 . U of G News . en.
  15. Web site: Jacqueline . 2010-07-12 . Ghana 3.0: Pre-departure Prep: . 2022-08-28 . Ghana 3.0.
  16. Web site: Jacqueline . 2010-07-28 . Ghana 3.0: Justice for Juveniles . 2022-08-28 . Ghana 3.0.
  17. Web site: Jacqueline . 2013-05-14 . Ghana 3.0: Ghana 3.0 . 2022-08-28 . Ghana 3.0.
  18. Web site: Jacqueline . 2013-05-31 . Ghana 3.0: Music that transforms lives . 2022-08-28 . Ghana 3.0.
  19. Web site: ExpertFile . Jacqueline Murray 3M National Teaching Fellow / Professor of History - Expert with University of Guelph ExpertFile . 2022-08-28 . expertfile.com . en.
  20. News: Murray . Jacqueline . 2003-06-27 . Opinion: Same-sex union: The final frontier of marriage evolution . en-CA . The Globe and Mail . 2022-08-28.
  21. Web site: [PDF] MCCT v ONTARIO and CANADA - Equal Marriage for Same - Free Download PDF ]. 2022-08-28 . nanopdf.com . en.
  22. Web site: Fellows of St. Michael's College . 2022-08-10 . University of St. Michael's College . en.
  23. Web site: 281 new Fellows & Members elected to the Society RHS . 2022-08-10 . royalhistsoc.org.
  24. Web site: ExpertFile . Jacqueline Murray 3M National Teaching Fellow / Professor of History - Expert with University of Guelph ExpertFile . 2022-08-10 . expertfile.com . en.
  25. Web site: University of Guelph professor wins top teacher award . 2022-08-10 . GuelphMercury.com . en-CA.
  26. Web site: 2014 3M National Teaching Fellows – STLHE . 2022-09-12 . www.stlhe.ca.
  27. Web site: History: Professor Jacqueline Murray Named Woman of Distinction College of Arts . 2022-08-10 . www.uoguelph.ca.
  28. Web site: Innovation Nets Guelph Profs National Awards University of Guelph . 2022-08-10 . www.uoguelph.ca.
  29. Web site: 2013 D2L Innovation Award Recipients – STLHE . 2022-09-12 . www.stlhe.ca.
  30. Web site: University of Guelph professor wins top teacher award . 2022-08-10 . GuelphMercury.com . en-CA.
  31. Web site: Teaching Award Winners 2010 - Present - University of Guelph Faculty Association . 2022-08-10 . m.ugfa.ca.
  32. Web site: Jacqueline Murray University of Guelph - Academia.edu . 2022-08-10 . uoguelph.academia.edu.
  33. Web site: Jacqueline Murray – Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies . 2022-08-10 . en-CA.
  34. Web site: Jacqueline Murray University of Guelph - Academia.edu . 2022-08-10 . uoguelph.academia.edu.

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