Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Lenskyj, Helen
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Description area
Dates of existence
April 15, 1943 -
History
Helen Jefferson Lenskyj is a sociologist, professor, researcher, writer, public speaker, and community activist. She was born in Sydney, Australia and moved to Toronto, ON in 1966, where she obtained her Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degrees in Sociology in Education at the University of Toronto. She was appointed associate professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in 1990, promoted to full professor in 1996, and became professor emerita upon her retirement in 2007. She has published many books, papers, and journal and magazine articles, primarily on the topics of gender, sexuality, and politics in sport. In September 2009, she gave a talk about the negative impact of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games at the Whistler Public Library.
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Sydney, Australia
Toronto, ON
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Professor
Sociologist
Researcher
Writer
Public speaker
Community activist
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RAD, July 2008 version. Canadian Council of Archives.
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Catalogued March 2019.
Revised April 2023.