Dr. Barbara Crow is on administrative leave as the Dean of Arts and Science at Queen’s University. First appointed in July 2017 and re-appointed in 2022, Dr. Crow led the development and launch of the first-ever Strategic Plan for the Faculty of Arts and Science in its 130-year history and recently announced a new Dean’s Advisory Board in collaboration with the Faculty’s Advancement Team. Dr. Crow focussed the Faculty of Arts and Science at Queen’s on I-EDIAA in all aspects of work and supported many initiatives through the Faculty’s EDII Fund. Prior to joining Queen’s, Dr. Crow was the Associate Vice-President, Graduate and Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies at York University. Prior to that appointment, Barbara held the positions of Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and Director of the Graduate Program in Communication and Culture. She has also chaired the provincial Ontario Graduate Studies Deans, the Council of Ontario Deans as part of the Council of Ontario Universities and the Women and Gender Studies Association.
In 2023, Barbara was honoured with the Angela Hilyard Influential Leader Recognition Award from the Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada. The award recognizes an influential leader who has continually demonstrated innovative and impactful leadership in advancing the mission of, and achieving outstanding contributions to, their institution and/or to higher education. Dr. Crow’s research interests are in the social, cultural, political and economic implications of digital technologies; particularly technology, feminism and aging, the ways in which they intersect and specifically the various impacts of digital technology. She has edited collections on mobile technologies, US radical feminism, and Canadian Women’s Studies. She has worked on several large-scale interdisciplinary grants with engineers, designers, artists and communication scholars to produce technical and cultural content for mobile experiences. In addition to her research, Dr. Crow is a co-founder of the Mobile Media Lab and of Wi: A journal of Mobile Media. She is also currently a co-principal investigator on the Ageing in Data funded by a SSHRC Partnership Grant.
Creativity, curiosity and kindness are important to visioning, planning and implementing teamwork that I thrive on. I have thoroughly enjoyed making systems better to serve and enhance their constituents. I have benefitted greatly from being mentored and mentoring and it is through these generous practices that we become stronger and bolder.
