MacKINNON, Janice C. 1947-
(Janice Potter-MacKinnon, Janice Potter)

PERSONAL:

Born January 30, 1947, in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada; daughter of William (in business) and Melinda (a homemaker) Potter; married R. Peter MacKinnon (a university president), April 20, 1974; children Alan Douglas, William Taylor. Ethnicity: "English." Education: University of Western Ontario, B.A. (with honors), 1969; Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, M.A., 1970, Ph.D., 1977. Religion: Anglican.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Office—Department of History, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5C7, Canada. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, began as assistant professor, became associate professor of history, 1975-91; Government of Saskatchewan, Regina, minister of social services, 1991-92, minister of finance, 1992-97, minister of economic development, 1997-2001; University of Saskatchewan, professor of history, 2003—. Member of board of directors, International Road Dynamics and Institute for Research on Public Policy (and vice-chair); also member of selection committee for Rhodes scholars.

MEMBER:

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Grant from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2002, 2006.

WRITINGS:

(Under name Janice Potter) The Liberty We Seek: Loyalist Ideology in Colonial New York and Massachusetts, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 1982.

(Under name Janice Potter-MacKinnon) While the Women Only Wept (nonfiction), McGill-Queen's University Press (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), 1991.

Minding the Public Purse: The Fiscal Crisis, Political Trade-offs, and Canada's Future, McGill-Queen's University Press (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), 2003.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Canadian Public Administration, spring, 2005, Evan McIntyre, review of Minding the Public Purse: The Fiscal Crisis, Political Trade-offs, and Canada's Future, p. 137.

Canadian Woman Studies, spring-summer, 2004, Robert Drummond, review of Minding the Public Purse, p. 208.