Draft:Frances Widdowson

Frances Widdowson is a Canadian political scientist. She was an associate professor in the department of economics, justice and policy studies at Mount Royal University from 2008 to 2021. She was fired from the university in 2022 after expressing controversial opinions about the Black Lives Matter movement and residential schools.

Education
Widdowson received an Honours BA and MA in political science from the University of Victoria and a PhD in political science from York University.

Career
She was a policy analyst for the government of the Northwest Territories.

In 2023, the University of Lethbridge canceled a guest lecture by Widdowson after complaints by students and faculty at the university.

Return

Currently, she is working a manuscript entitled The Woke Academy: How Advocacy Studies Murder Academic Disciplines and Effective Policy Development.

Her book Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry was short-listed for the Donner Prize.

Husband

Books

 * with Albert Howard Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation (2008)
 * editor Approaches to Aboriginal Education in Canada: Searching for Solutions (2013)
 * Separate but Unequal: How Parallelist Ideology Conceals Indigenous Dependency (2019)
 * editor Indigenizing the University: Diverse Perspectives (2021)