Professor
MacDowell teaches Canadian history and specializes in
Canadian working class history and North American environmental
history. She teaches her
undergraduate classes, including a third level courses in Canadian working
class history and in
Canadian environmental history at UTM, teaches a graduate course,
Labour Relations Problems in Historical Perspective, in North American
labour history and industrial relations at the
Centre for Industrial Relations, and a graduate course in North
American environmental history in the Department of History/Institute of
Environmental Studies.