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Jane L. Parpart

Jane L. Parpart

Jane L. Parpart is Professor Emeritus at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, Visiting Professor at University of Massachusetts Boston and Adjunct Professor in Canada at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa. She taught for four years in Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. She has been involved in gender and development projects in Africa and Asia, a summer institute on gender and development funded by IDRC, and published books and articles on women and empowerment, gender and leadership, masculinity/ies and conflict, and is currently working on an edited collection exploring gender, silence and power in insecure sites.