Leslie Digdon
Previous Graduate Student in Department of History, University of Saskatchewan (Current Associate Professor, Saint Mary's University)Current: Assistant Professor, Saint Mary's University
Previous work completed in Department of History, University of Saskatchewan: “Institutionalizing Eugenics: Custody, Class, Gender and Education in Nova Scotia’s Response to the ‘Feeble-Minded’, 1890-1931.” (Doctoral Dissertation, 2015) Awarded the Graduate Thesis Award, College of Graduate Studies & Research, University of Saskatchewan (2015)
Leslie Digdon is a social historian of medicine, health, science, and technology. She earned her PhD under the supervision of Erika Dyck at the University of Saskatchewan in 2015. Leslie is now an Assistant Professor at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, cross appointed between the Department of History and the Division of Engineering. Her current research focuses on the woman-led mobilization of health-related knowledge in rural and remote areas of Canada in the 1970s and 1980s. She also continues to work on the history of eugenics and institutionalization begun in her dissertation.