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Rosa Bruno-Jofré

About

Dr. Rosa Bruno-Jofré is Professor and former Dean (2000–2010) of the Faculty of Education, cross-appointed to the Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Science, at Queen’s University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in the Humanities Division. Her research has been and is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her Bachelor of Education is specialized in the teaching of history.

Her recent books are (co-authored with Jon Igelmo) Ivan Illich Fifty Years Later: Situating Deschooling Society in his Intellectual and Personal Journey (University of Toronto Press, 2022); sole author of Our Lady of the Missions: From Ultramontane Origins to a New Cosmology published by the University of Toronto Press, History Series2020. Her recent authored and co-authored articles have appeared in Educational Theory, Hispania Sacra, Journal of the History of Ideas, American Catholic Review, Historical Studies, Journal of Ecclesiastical History (Cambridge), among other. She has authored and edited books published by University of Toronto Press, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Routledge, and Wilfrid Laurier University Press. She has received the 2018 George Edward Clerk Award from the Canadian Catholic Historical Association, the 2017 Toronto Dominion Bank Award as one of the Top Ten Most Influential Hispanic Canadians, 2022 Distinguished Historian Award from the Triennial on the History of Women Religious, June 26–29, 2022, at the University of Notre Dame’s CUSHWA Center.

She is the founding coordinator of the Theory and History of Education International Research Group (THEIRG), created in 2007, and founding co-editor of Encounters in Theory and History of Education founded in 2000.

Awards and recognition

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2022 Distinguished Historian Award from the Triennial Conference on the History of Women Religious, June 26–29, 2022, at the University of Notre Dame’s CUSHWA Center and cosponsored by Notre Dame’s Medieval Institute, Saint Mary’s College (Notre Dame, Indiana), and the Center for Spirituality at Saint Mary’s College.

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in the Humanities Division of the Academy of Arts and Humanities, inducted on November 22, 2019.

International Research and Collaboration Award, Faculty of Education, Queen’s University, 2018.

George Edward Clerk Award, Canadian Catholic Historical Association, for contributions to Catholic History, May 30, 2018. The highest honour bestowed by the CCHA.

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