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This Month's Tutor
Nanci Langford
History and Women's Studies
Nanci Langford is a tutor in History and Women’s Studies, currently teaching the six courses that make up the
core requirements for a degree in Women’s Studies. For the next year, until August 2004 she is also an acting coordinator of
Women’s Studies. Nanci began her career with Athabasca in 1992, when she taught a women’s history course until
1994 while completing her dissertation. Then she left Athabasca to take a position as Acting Coordinator of Women’s Studies
at University of Alberta for one year, followed by fours years as Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Ecology at the
University of Alberta. When Nanci decided to leave Human Ecology, Athabasca professor Cathy Cavanaugh asked her if she would
consider returning to work in Women’s Studies at Athabasca. So in September 1999 Nanci returned to Athabasca and she knows
she made the right decision!
Nanci earned her doctorate at University of Alberta in 1994. She studied both sociology and history, creating a specialty
in historical sociology. Nanci has a passion for Canadian women’s history and for planning research projects and she loves
to share these with her students. She particularly enjoys the one on one work with students over the phone and the long distance
friendships that can develop. She is a big fan of distance education and the policy of Athabasca to make university studies
accessible to all. Nanci is impressed with the commitment and calibre of students at Athabasca. She feels it is the students who
make the job fun and rewarding. In Women’s Studies, many students are exposed to a new perspective that affects both
their academic or work careers and their personal lives. This can be challenging for the student and for the tutor, but it is one of the
positive outcomes of studying women’s lives and status in society.
Nanci’s research has included the experiences of first generation prairie homestead women, the life and work of
Louise McKinney, the contemporary immigration experience and its impact on couples, the contributions of organized farm women
to Alberta’s development, and the life and diaries of Sophie Puckette. She has also written about the portrayal of women in local
histories and women’s political aspirations after achieving suffrage. She has been active in women’s archives
projects for fourteen years, working to bring more women’s collections into archival institutions in Alberta.
Nanci is married and has three sons, one in Engineering at University of Alberta and two in elementary school. Family life
keeps her very busy, as the family is currently completing construction of a cabin at a northern lake and all three sons are involved in
competitive swimming, as well as other sports. Nanci loves to go for long walks, to swim and play tennis. Reading and writing are
also favourite activities.
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