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Annmarie Adams, BA MArch PhD (she/her/hers)

Professor
McGill University

Architectural historian Annmarie Adams holds the Stevenson Chair at McGill University, Montreal. She is jointly appointed in the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture and the Department of Social Studies of Medicine. Her research focuses on the cultural landscapes of homes and hospitals. Her 1996 book, Architecture in the Family Way: Women, Houses, and Doctors, 1870-1900 won the Jason A. Hannah Medal from the Royal Society of Canada as an outstanding contribution to the history of medicine. Designing Women: Gender and the Architectural Profession, co-authored with sociologist Peta Tancred in 2000, provides an interdisciplinary study of Canada’s women architects. In 2008, Adams published Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943, which looks inside healthcare planning. She is currently writing a book on the life of physician and museum curator Maude Abbott.

Adams is a leader in architectural and medical education, having served as Director of the McGill University’s School of Architecture, Chair of the Canadian Council of University Schools of Architecture, Chair of the Department of Social Studies of Medicine (McGill), and, currently, as President of the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine. She is a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and the Society of Architectural Historians.












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