Dr. Ann Marie Guilmette is retiring from Brock University, effective January 1, 2011. She is retiring as an Associate Professor, in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, and the Women’s Studies Program at Brock University. Ann Marie completed a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Windsor (in 1980).

She studies such adult forms of play as leisure, humour, astrology, and gambling. Her undergraduate and graduate Master degrees were in Physical and Health Education. At Brock, she taught courses in play and culture, recreation for special populations, foundations of leisure studies, leisure and aging, the social psychology of leisure and recreation, the therapeutic benefits of humour, leisure education, and leisure research.

Dr. Guilmette conducts community-based action research in a wide variety of related fields. She is the editor of three books on sport, play, and recreation. Her scholarship resulted in a multitude of academic publications and reports. She contributed numerous papers for academic conferences, and in published proceedings. She delivered more than 500 presentations to community service agencies.

The focus of her research has been on play, games, and sport in cultural contexts, the therapeutic benefits of humour, leisure resources and education, addictions and leisure, and gambling as adult leisure, and especially for socially disadvantaged and de-valued populations, with a special interest in First Nations, immigrants, the poor, people with disabilities, seniors, and women.

She is Past-President of the International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS), the Brock University Faculty Association (BUFA), Women’s Addiction Recovery Mediation (WARM), and The Association for the Study of Play (TASP). She served on the Board of Directors for the Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre. Currently she serves as reviewer for the American Journal of Play. In 2005 she received the Brock University Women’s Studies Program’s Rosalind Blauer award for her community-based research with WARM. In 2009 she received TASP’s Play Scholar Career Achievement Award.

Ann Marie grew up in Fort Erie, Ontario, and began volunteering for WARM in 1995.  She served on the Board from 1995 to 2001 (as President from 1995-1997), and then again from 2003 to 2009 (again as President from 2007 to 2009). With a life-long knowledge of Fort Erie and a deep understanding of the nature of contemporary issues and challenges, especially as regard addictions and their impact on women’s lives, Dr. Guilmette continues her membership in WARM. She helps with funding applications, serves on Board committees, reviews activities, and imagines creative innovations (such as the retirement donation request described below). Check out more on Ann Marie and WARM.

By way of celebrating her early retirement, she invites you to participate electronically. For her benefit, you are asked to post your “best wishes,” comments, and remarks on Ann Marie Guilmette's Forum.
 
Also, as an alternative to retirement “gifts,” Ann Marie would prefer, if possible, that you make a donation in her name to WARM (see “Pay Pal” instructions included), in recognition of her passion for this agency and for the women and families that will be helped through your generosity. 

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