Catherine Holtmann
Post-doctoral Fellow, NB-IRDT
PhD (University of New Brunswick) MA (University of New Brunswick);
MDiv (University of St. Michael's College, Toronto); BA (University
of Winnipeg)
Cathy is a project manager for the New Brunswick Institute for
Research, Data and Training under the direction of Michael Haan, a
Canada Research Chair in Population and Social Policy. She is working
with graduate students and staff at the NB-IRDT on several projects
including an in-depth labour market analysis for the province of New
Brunswick. Cathy is comfortable working with both qualitative and
quantitative research methods and her current research and writing
projects include a gendered analysis of social capital among Canadian
immigrants, domestic violence and immigrant women in the Maritimes,
and return migration in Canada. Her PhD research focused on immigrant
women, social networks, and religion during the early years of
settlement and her MA research was on Catholic women and social
action. She has worked as a research assistant with the RAVE
(Religion and Violence e-Learning) Project under the direction of
Nancy Nason-Clark since 2007 (www.theraveproject.org).
She has twelve years of undergraduate teaching experience and is
developing online teaching resources for the Religion and Diversity
Project/Religion et diversité, under the direction of Lori Beaman at
the University of Ottawa (www.religionanddiversity.ca).