Professor Emeritus
B.A (Kent), PhD. Leicester)
aheitlinger@trentu.ca
Professor Alena Heitlinger joined Trent’s Sociology Department in 1975. She is the author of eight books and numerous articles, publishing widely on feminist, demographic, health, employment, childcare, migration, and ethnic issues in the former Czechoslovakia (where she was born), the Soviet Union, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and the post-communist Czech Republic. Her last two books were the widely acclaimed Émigré Feminism: Transnational Perspectives (1999) and In the Shadows of the Holocaust & Communism: Czech and Slovak Jews Since 1945 (2006). The holder of several research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Trent, she was the recipient of the Trent University Distinguished Research Award in 2000. She twice served as chair of the Sociology Department and retired from Trent in 2014. In 2022, she and her husband, Professor Emeritus David Morrison, endowed in her name two scholarships to be awarded annually to students who have come to Trent through the World University Service of Canada (WUSC) refugee program.