Liz Millward

• WOMN 2000 - Feminist Thought
• WOMN 2610 - Gender, Transport and Social Justice
• WOMN 3500 - Women and the Military
• WOMN 3500 - Women and Leadership

Liz Millward completed her PhD in Women’s Studies at York University in Toronto, and has held positions at McGill University in Montreal, as the Margaret Laurence Postdoctoral Fellow in Women’s Studies at the University of Manitoba, and as Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University College, London, UK. Her research interests are in the history and geography of women’s spaces, with a particular focus on the role of transportation and mobility in the development and spread of culture and community. She has two separate research programs. One is focused on women’s aviation networks in the British Empire. The other is on the history of lesbian geography and culture. 

• PhD (Women's Studies), York University, 2003
• MA (Women's Studies), York University, 1997
• BA Honours (American Studies), University of Nottingham, 1995

Research interests

• Women and transportation history
• Lesbian geography
• Lesbian history

Books

• Millward, Liz, Janice G. Dodd and Irene Fubara-Manuel. Killing Off the Lesbians: A Symbolic Annihilation on Film and Television. Jefferson: McFarland, 2017.
• Millward, Liz. Making a Scene: Lesbians and Community across Canada, 1964-84. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2015. 
• Millward, Liz. Women in British Imperial Airspace, 1922-1937. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008. 

Selected publications

• Millward, Liz. “Intense Times: Love, fear and pride as guides to lesbian feminist organizing in the 1970s.” In Feeling feminism: activism, affect, and Canada’s second wave, edited by Lara Campbell, Michael Dawson and Catherine Gidney, 165-183. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2022.
• Millward, Liz. “Lesbian Nation and Black Nationalism.” Women’s History Review 31, no. 1 (2022): 51-67.
• Millward, Liz. “Grounded: The Limits of Imperial Aeromobility.” In Empire and Mobility in the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by David Lambert and Peter Merriman, 195-215. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. 
• Millward, Liz. “‘That crosscountry 1969 vw squareback and holiday inn affair’: Lesbian mobility.” Journal of Lesbian Studies 24, no. 3 (2020): 298-310.
• Millward, Liz. “‘Un aéroport-fantôme’: The Ghost of Mirabel International Airport.” In Spectral Spaces and Hauntings: The Affects of Absence, edited by Christina Lee, 103-116. New York: Routledge, 2017. 
• Jennings, Rebecca, and Liz Millward. “‘A fully formed blast from abroad?’: Australasian lesbian circuits of mobility and the transnational exchange of ideas in the 1960s and 1970s.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 25, no. 3 (2016): 463-487.

• 2023 - Most Inspiring 2SLGBTQIA+ Professor/Staff Award, Arts Student Body Council, University of Manitoba
• 2010 - Annual Book Prize, Canadian Women's Studies Association/Association des Etudes de la Femme