Member of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: May 9, 2019
• Invested on: November 21, 2019

Dorothy E. Smith, C.M.
Vancouver, British Columbia and Toronto, Ontario
Dorothy SmithÆs visionary research lent a novel feminist perspective to the field of sociology. She is internationally acclaimed for having developed institutional ethnographyùa sociology committed to remaining with actual people as the subjects rather than the objects of research, and to grounding research in their actions in relation to others and how they are caught up in governing relations extending beyond their knowledge and control. In addition, she helped establish the WomenÆs Research Centre in Vancouver and the Centre for WomenÆs Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.