Prof. Shauna Wilton, PhD

Area of Study / Keywords

Women and Politics Family Policy Motherhood Popular Culture Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Assessment Social Transformations Program: Law Crime and Justice Studies

Research

Recent Publications:

Shauna Wilton. 2025. The Problem with Parenting in the Crime Procedural: Mothers as TV Detectives. In The Palgrave Handbook of Parenthood in Popular Culture, edited by Elizabeth Podnieks and Helena Wahlström Henriksson. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-94070-5

Methot, Melanie and Shauna Wilton. 2023. "After a bit of deep thinking: Using Student Reflections to Assess Student Learning." Emerging Dialogues. https://www.aalhe.org/emerging-dialogues---after-a-bit-of-deep-thinking">https://www.aalhe.org/emerging-dialogues---after-a-bit-of-deep-thinking

Osborne, Geraint and Shauna Wilton. 2022.  “‘Defenders of Perversion:’ Professing Same Sex Marriage Rights in the Local Press.” Engaged Scholar Journal: Community Engaged Research, Teaching and Learning. 8 (3). 32-51, https://doi.org/10.15402/esj.v8i3.70358

Wilton, Shauna and Sarah Greer. 2020. “Grandma is the Mayor”: Women’s Participation in Local Politics in Alberta.” Études Canadiennes/Canadian Studies. (Forthcoming).

Wilton, Shauna and Melanie Méthot. 2020. “Moving Forward or Holding Back? Creating a Culture of Assessment.” The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. 11 (2): 1-13. https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotl-rcacea.2020.2.8009 

Wilton, Shauna. 2018. “Mothers Hunting Murderers: Representations of Motherhood in Broadchurch and Happy Valley.” Clues: A Journal of Detection. 36(1): 101-110.

Wilton, Shauna. 2018. “Mompreneurs, Opting-Out, and Leaning In: Work/Family Choices under Neoliberalism.” Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture and Social Justice. 39 (1): 191-204

Osborne, Geraint and Shauna Wilton. 2017. “Professing in the Local Press: Professors and Public Responsibilities.” Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship. 10 (1): 68-81

Wilton, Shauna & Lynda Ross. 2017. Flexibility, Sacrifice and Insecurity: A Canadian Study Assessing the Challenges of Balancing Work and Family in Academia. Journal of Feminist Family Therapy. DOI: 10.1080/08952833.2016.1272663

Wilton, Shauna. 2015. “A Very Useful Engine: The Politics of Thomas and Friends” in The Politics of Popular Culture: Negotiating Power, Identity, and Place. Ed. Tim Neiguth. MQUP.

Teaching

Teaching Areas: Gender and Politics; Culture and Politics; Ethnicity and Politics; Law and Politics, Comparative Politics

Courses regularly taught:

AUIDS/CRI 160: Crime and Community

AUPOL 250: Introduction to Comparative Politics

AUPOL 329: Popular Culture, Law and Politics 

AUCRI 353: Law & Politics

AUPOL 355: Gender, Law & Politics

I am on administrative leave from July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2027.