Dr. Osire Glacier

Biography

Osire Glacier (Ph.D., McGill University) is an Associate Professor of History at Athabasca University and an Adjunct Professor in the History Department at the University of Calgary. Her expertise lies in the modern history of the Middle East and North Africa, with a focus on Moroccan women's history, gender and sexuality politics in postcolonial Morocco, and human rights issues in the region.

She is the author of several monographs, among which Freedom for Morocco: A Family Tale (Trenton/USA: Africa World Press & Red Sea Press, 2022), Féminin, masculin : photos d’affiches publicitaires (Montréal : M. Éditeur, 2019), Le sexe nié, féminité, masculinité et sexualité au Maroc (Montréal : Pleine Lune, 2019), which was published in English as Femininity, Masculinity and Sexuality in Morocco (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), Femmes, Islam et Occident (Montréal : Pleine Lune, 2018), Les droits humains au Maroc : entre discours et réalité (Tarik Éditions, 2015), Universal Rights, Systemic Violations and Cultural Relativism in Morocco (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and Political Women in Morocco: Then and Now (Africa World Press, 2013), which was published in French as Femmes politiques au Maroc: d’hier à aujourd’hui (Tarik Éditions, 2013).

Her blog, http://www.etudesmarocaines.com, aims at disseminating academic knowledge about North African issues within the general public.