On July 1st, 2013, Alison Prentice was named a member of the Order of Canada, in recognition of her “pioneering contributions as a scholar, advancing the field of women’s history and the history of education.”
Alison was a faculty member in the History and Philosophy Departments at the University of Toronto, founder of the Canadian Women’s History Project at OISE (which produced many books, including “Canadian Women: A History”, now in its third edition, co-founder of the Ontario Women’s History Network (OWHN) which began at the CWSE in 1990, and she was the first Head of the CWSE.