Geraldine Hancock Forbes is a Canadian-born educator, writer, and Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita, State University of New York Oswego.
Forbes worked as a social studies teacher at Joseph Wolinsky Collegiate in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Kings County High School, Nova Scotia, from 1963 to 1966.
She joined the History Department, State University of New York Oswego, in 1971 as an assistant professor.
[2] A pioneer in researching and writing women’s history in Colonial India, her publications include Women in Modern India; An Historian's Perspective: Indian Women and the Freedom Movement; Women in Colonial India: Essays on Politics, Medicine and Historiography; Lost Letters and Feminist History: the Political Friendship of Mohandas K. Gandhi and Sarala Devi Chaudhurani, and the edited memoirs of Shudha Mazumdar, Manmohini Zutshi Sahgal, and Haimabati Sen, as well as several articles and book chapters.
In 2008, she was appointed to the advisory committee of SPARROW: Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women.