Shirley Tillotson

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Shirley Tillotson is a Canadian historian, who studies the relationship between Canadians and the Canadian state in the 20th century, and has published widely on the history of taxation in Canada. She is currently a professor emeritus at University of King's College. Her published work has won several awards, including the Governor General's History Award for Scholarly Research, François-Xavier Garneau Medal, and the Canadian Historical Association, Clio (Ontario) Award for Excellence.

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Education

Tillotson completed her undergraduate training at the University of Waterloo, and did her Masters' and Ph.D. from Queen's University, Canada. [1]

Career

Tillotson is currently Professor emeritus and Inglis Professor at the University of King's College, where she is teaching the history of taxation in Canada, as well as the regulation of broadcasting in Canada in the 1900s. [1] Tillotson's book, published in 2000, The Public at Play: Gender and the Politics of Recreation in Postwar Ontario is an influential study of post-war Canada, and was described in a review published by the Canadian Historical Review as "...a welcome and worthwhile contribution to our growing appreciation for the complexities and contradictions that shaped the postwar period." [2] It won the Canadian Historical Association's Clio (Ontario) Award for Excellence in that same year. [3]

Her second book, Contributing Citizens:  Modern Charitable Fundraising and the Making of the Welfare State,1920-66, published in 2008, was shortlisted for the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize and the Harold Adams Innis Prize in the same year. [3]

In 2017, Tillotson published Give and Take:  The Citizen-Taxpayer and the Rise of Canadian Democracy. This book won the François-Xavier Garneau Medal, and was praised by the jury as "a major contribution to the historiography of contemporary Canada." [4] The book was widely and positively reviewed, with the Canadian Historical Review describing it as "...amazingly well researched," [5] It was also short-listed for the Awards to Scholarly Publications Programs Book Prize in Humanities and Social Sciences from the Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences. [6] It also won the 2019 Governor General's History Award for Scholarly Research. [7]

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References

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  4. "CHA Prizes". cha-shc.ca. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
  5. 1 2 Roy, Patricia E. (2019). "Give and Take: The Citizen-Taxpayer and the Rise of Canadian Democracy by Shirley Tillotson (review)". The Canadian Historical Review. 100 (3): 492–493. ISSN   1710-1093.
  6. "Applauding arts and social sciences research at annual FASS showcase". Dalhousie News. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
  7. 1 2 "Shirley Tillotson | Recipient of the 2019 Governor General's History Award for Scholarly Research". CBC Canada. 13 January 2020.