Monique Woolnough

Assistant Professor
mwoolnou@lakeheadu.ca
+1 807-343-8010ext. 7824
PA 3005B
Mon-Fri 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Academic Qualifications: 

HBA (International Development with an Area of Emphasis in Gender, University of Guelph), 2007

JD (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University), 2013

Lawyer Member, Law Society of Ontario, called to the Bar in 2014

LLM (Concentration in Law and Social Justice, University of Ottawa), 2024

Date joined Lakehead: 
July 2024
Previous Teaching/Work: 

Previous Teaching

- September 2024-April 2025, Co-instructor, Formation décolonisation et reconciliation (Course in decolonization and reconciliation), Programme de common law en français et programme de droit canadien, Université d’Ottawa

- January 2024, Instructor, Decolonization and Poverty Law, University of Ottawa Common Law Faculty

- Fall 2023, Instructor, Santé et inégalités sociales (Health and Social Inequalities), University of Ottawa

- Fall 2023, Instructor, Indigeneity and the City, Indigenous Studies, Carleton University

- Fall 2023, Instructor, État-providence, politique sociale et service social (Welfare state, social policy and social work), School of Social Work, University of Ottawa

- Fall 2018, Organizer/Co-Facilitator- Sudbury Community Legal Clinic and Northern Initiative for Social Action Social Justice Speakers’ School, a 12-week course to empower low-income community members with advocacy and public speaking skills

- Fall 2018, Instructor, Social Policy and Family Law with Native People, Indigenous Studies, University of Sudbury

- Spring 2018, Instructor, Introduction to the Social Welfare State, School of Social Work, Laurentian University

- Fall 2015, Co-Instructor, Poverty and the Law, Bora Laskin Faculty of Law, Lakehead University

Publications

Woolnough, Monique, "Reproducing the French-Canadian Settler Collective in Ontario through French Language Rights" (in press, expected Fall 2025) Journal of Law and Social Policy.

Woolnough, Monique, “Dorothy Van der Peet and the $50 salmon sale: Indigenous feminist legal orders expand understandings of the feminization of poverty” (in press) Canadian Journal of Women and the Law.

Hall, Laura, Woolnough, Monique & Cecchetto, Sherri, “Indigenous Social Work Theory: Towards Indigenist Re-Imaginings” In Shaikh, S.S., LeFrançois, B.A. and Macías, T., eds, Critical Social Work Praxis. (Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2022).