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Joy Parr (1949-2024) was an eminent Canadian historian of work, gender, and technology.

Parr’s major monographs include The Gender of Breadwinners (1990; winner of the Francois-Xavier Garneau Medal, the John A. Macdonald Prize, and the Harold Adam Innis Prize award by the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada), Domestic Goods (1999), and Sensing Changes (2010; winner of the Canada Prize, 2011, Edelstein Prize, 2011).

Parr was an innovative thinker whose works challenged conventional wisdom and captured the imagination of scholars in a diversity of academic fields.

For a life time of achievement and outstanding contributions to research, teaching and support for others, Parr was awarded the Leonardo da Vinci Medal in 2018 by the Society for the History of Technology.

Joy Parr passed away on May 12, 2024. For more information, you can read her obituary and other tributes.