Dr. Susan McDaniel

Susan A McDaniel has transformed sociology in Canada. She has devoted her considerable scholarly energies to rethinking, reconceptualizing and realigning the ways in which social structural constraints impinge on human social life most intimately. She has been a pioneer in studying arenas of human activity: illegal abortion, sexual assault and harassment, childbearing from women's point of view, women's work-related health issues, women's participation in technological innovation. Her most important contribution, however, is in her involved, passionate, and yet sharply analytical frameworks, frameworks which are generating unconsidered research hypotheses.