ALLAN GREER

Curriculum Vitae

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:  McGill University, 2009-present, Professor of History o Research Chair in Colonial North America  University of , 1983-89, 1991-2010 o Full Professor of History, 1994-2010 o Vice-Principal, University College, 1998-2000  University of British Columbia, 1989-91, Associate Professor of History  University of Maine, 1980-83, Assistant Professor of History

EDUCATION:  Ph.D. (History), , 1980  M.A. (History), Carleton University, 1975  B.A. (History), University of British Columbia, 1972

HONOURS AND AWARDS

FELLOWSHIPS:  Killam Research Fellowship, 2014-16  Fellow, Institut d’études avancées, Paris, 2013  Member, Royal Society of Canada, 2011-  John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2008-09  Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library, 2007-08  Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge University, 2000-01  Connaught Fellow, , 1999

BOOK PRIZES:  Allan Sharlin Prize, Social Science History Association, 2019. “for an outstanding book in social science history”  Wilson Book Prize, Wilson Institute for Canadian History, McMaster University, 2019. "...awarded to the book that offers the best exploration of Canadian history that, in the view of the Wilson Institute, succeeds in making Canadian historical scholarship accessible to a wide and transnational audience."  Prix Maxime-Raymond, Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française, 2008 (best biography, French Canada, 2005-08). "...décerné à l'auteur de la meilleure biographie historique publiée en français au cours des trois années précédant sa remise...”  Annibel Jenkins Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2004-06. "The biennial Annibel Jenkins Prize is given to the author of the best book-length biography of a late seventeenth-century or eighteenth-century subject."  Gilbert Chinard Prize, Society for French Historical Studies, 2005. "...comparative history of France and North, Central, or South America."  John Porter Prize, Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, 1995 (best contribution to understanding of Canadian society)  Prix Lionel-Groulx, Institut d'histoire de l'Amérique française, 1993. "...le meilleur ouvrage portant sur un aspect de l'histoire de l'Amérique française et s'imposant par son caractère scientifique."  Honourable Mention, Garneau Medal, Canadian Historical Association, 1990. "The François-Xavier Garneau Medal, awarded every five years, is the most prestigious of the CHA prizes. It honours an outstanding Canadian contribution to historical research."  Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association, 1986 (best book in Canadian History).  Allan Sharlin Prize, Social Science History Association, 1986.

OTHER DISTINCTIONS:  J.G. Tyrrell Medal, Royal Society of Canada, 2020  Keynote Speaker, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Toronto, 2121 (cancelled due to pandemic)  Keynote Speaker, Canadian Historical Association, Vancouver, June 2019  Stanton Sharp Lecture, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, November 2018  Canada Research Chair, Tier 1, 2009-16; renewed, 2016-23  Desmond Pacey Memorial Lecture, University of New Brunswick, October 2008  McLellan Distinguished Visiting Professor of History, SUNY Plattsburgh, 2003  L.H. Thomas Distinguished Lecturer, University of Alberta, 1999

GRANTS:  “Les contours de l’Atlantique français: savoirs, circulations et pouvoirs,” principal investigator, Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture Québec, 2011-15 ($377,344)  "Property in Land in Colonial North America: a Comparative Study," SSHRC Standard Research Grant, 2005-10 ($56,000)  SSHRC, Conference Grant, 1999-2000 ($10,000)  SSHRC, Research Grant, 1993-96, "Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century Canada" ($38,000)  SSHRC, Research Grant, 1990-91, "The Patriots and the People" ($27,000)

SCHOLARSHIP

REFEREED BOOKS:  Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. (454 pp.) o Allan Sharlin Prize o Wilson Book Prize  La Nouvelle-France et le monde. Montreal: Editions Boréal, 2009. (310 pp.) 2  Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. (249 pp.) o Gilbert Chinard Prize o Annibel Jenkins Prize o French translation, Editions Boréal, 2007 o Prix Maxime-Raymond  The People of . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. (127 pp.) o French translation, Editions Boréal, 1998.  The Patriots and the People: The Rebellion of 1837 in Rural Lower Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. (363 pp.) o John Porter Prize o Prix Lionel-Groulx o Choice’s Outstanding Academic Books, 1992-97 o French translation, Editions Boréal, 1997.  Peasant, Lord and Merchant: Rural Society in Three Quebec Parishes, 1740-1840. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985. (304 pp.) o Sir John A. Macdonald Prize o Allan Sharlin Prize o Honourable Mention, Garneau Medal o French translation, Septentrion, 2000.

EDITED BOOKS:  Before Canada: Northern North America in a Connected World, ca. 1000-1800AD. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, forthcoming.  Allan Greer and Jodi Bilinkoff, eds. Colonial Saints: Discovering the Holy in the Americas, 1500-1800. New York: Routledge, 2003.  The Jesuit Relations: Natives and Missionaries in Seventeenth-Century North America. Boston: Bedford Books, 2000. o The Jesuit Relations: Natives and Missionaries in Seventeenth-Century North America. revised edition. Boston, New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2019.  Allan Greer and Ian Radforth eds. Colonial Leviathan: State Formation in Nineteenth-Century Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992.

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES:  ‘France Takes Possession of the West’: The Council at Sault Ste-Marie, 1671.” Early American Studies (forthcoming)  “Settler Colonialism and Beyond.” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 30 (2020): 61-86.  “L’économie et la Rébellion: quelques perspectives de recherche.” Bulletin d’histoire politique 25 (2017) : 222-28.  Catherine Desbarats and Allan Greer. “North America from the Top Down: Visions of New France." Journal of Early American History 5 (Fall, 2015): 109-36.  “Commons and Enclosure in the Colonization of North America.” American Historical Review 117 (April 2012): 365-86. 3  Catherine Desbarats and Allan Greer. “Où est la Nouvelle-France?” Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française 64, 3-4 (hiver 2011): 31-62.  “National, Transnational and Hypernational Historiographies: New France meets Early American History.” Canadian Historical Review 91 (December 2010): 695-724. o “Historiografías nacionales, transnacionales e hipernacionales: Nueva Francia y la historia americana temprana,” Istor: revista de historia internacional [Mexico] 13 (verano 2012): 13-46.  "Natives and Nationalism: The Americanization of Kateri Tekakwitha." Catholic Historical Review 90 (2004): 67-79.  “Colonial Saints: Gender, Race and Hagiography in New France.” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., vol. 57 (April 2000): 323-48.  "Historical Roots of Canadian Democracy." Journal of Canadian Studies 34 (Spring 1999): 7-26.  "Canadian History: Ancient and Modern." Canadian Historical Review 77 (December 1996): 575-90.  "1837-38: Rebellion Reconsidered." Canadian Historical Review 76 (March 1995): 1-18 (French translation: Bulletin d'histoire politique 7 (autumne 1998): 29-40).  "La république des hommes: les Patriotes de 1837 face aux femmes." Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française 44 (Spring 1991): 507-28 (English version reprinted in Francis and Smith ed., Readings in Canadian History, 4th edn. HBJ Holt; Strong Boag and Fellman, Rethinking Canada: the Promise of Women's History, 3rd edn. Copp Clark)  "From Folklore to Revolution: Charivaris and the Lower Canadian Rebellion of 1837." Social History 15 (January 1990): 25-43.  Allan Greer and Léon Robichaud, "La rébellion de 1837-1838: une approche géographique." Cahiers de géographie du Québec 33 (December 1989): 345-77  "Rebels and Prisoners: The Canadian Insurrections of 1837-38." Acadiensis 14 (Autumn 1984): 137-45 (review essay)  "Wage Labour in the Transition to Capitalism: A Critique of Pentland." Labour/le travail 15 (Spring 1985): 7-22  " Labour and Lower Canadian Agrarian Structures." Canadian Historical Association, Historical Papers, 1981, pp. 197-214  "L'habitant, la paroisse rurale et la politique locale au XVIIIe siècle: Quelques cas dans la vallée du Richelieu." Société canadienne d'histoire de l'église catholique, Sessions d'études, 47 (1980): 19-33  "The Pattern of Literacy in Quebec, 1745-1899." Histoire sociale-Social History 11 (November 1978): 295-335  "Mutiny at Louisbourg, December 1744." Histoire sociale-Social History 10 (November 1977): 305-36  "The Sunday Schools of Upper Canada." Ontario History 67 (September 1975): 169-84

4 PORTIONS OF BOOKS:  “La pêche, les communs maritimes et l’empire français en Amérique du nord,” in Ressources, environnement et communautés (France et empire français XVIIe-XXIe siècle), ed. Fabien Locher (Paris: Champ Vallon, 2020), 169-86.  “Dispossession in a Commercial Idiom: From Indian Deeds to Land Cession Treaties,” in Contested Spaces of Early America, ed., Juliana Barr and Edward Countryman (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014), 69-92.  “Virgins and Cannibals: New France, 1675-1717,” in North American Borderlands, ed. Brian DeLay (New York: Routledge, 2013), 177-97. [excerpt from Mohawk Saint]  “A Wandering Jesuit in Europe and America: Father Chaumonot Finds a Home,” in Empires of God: Religious Encounters in the Early Modern Atlantic World, ed. Linda Gregerson and Susan Juster (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), 106- 22.  “Towards a Comparative Study of the Effects of Jesuit Missions among the Indigenous Peoples of Seventeenth-Century Canada and Paraguay,” in Aparecida Vilaca and Robin Wright, ed., Native Christians: Modes and Effects of Christianity among Indigenous Peoples of the Americas (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), 21-32.  Catherine Desbarats and Allan Greer, "The Seven Years’ War in Canadian History and Memory," in Warren Hofstra, ed., Cultures in Conflict: The Seven Years’ War in North America (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007), 145–78.  Allan Greer and Kenneth Mills, "A Catholic Atlantic," in Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Erik R. Seeman, ed., The Atlantic in Global History, 1500-2000, (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2006), 3-19.  "The Exchange of Medical Knowledge between Natives and Jesuits in New France," in Luis Millones Figueroa and Domingo Ledezma, ed., El saber de los jesuitas, historias naturales y el Nuevo Mundo: Jesuit Knowledge, Natural Histories and the New World (Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2005), 135-46.  “La Nouvelle-France dans le contexte de l’histoire des Amériques,” in T. Wien, F. Joutard, ed., Mémoire de la Nouvelle-France (Rennes and Quebec: Presses universitaires de Rennes/Septentrion, 2005), 155-66.  “Conversion and Identity: Christianity in Seventeenth-Century New France,” in Kenneth Mills and Anthony Grafton, ed., Conversions: Old Worlds and New (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2003), 175-98.  "Comparisons: New France," in Daniel Vickers, ed., Blackwell Companion to Colonial American History (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), 469-88.  “Preface”; and “Iroquois Virgin: The Story of Catherine Tekakwitha in New France and New Spain," in Greer and Bilinkoff, ed., Colonial Saints, ix-xii, 235-50.  "Introduction," in Greer, ed., The Jesuit Relations, 1-19.  "Savage/Saint: The Lives of Kateri Tekakwitha," in Sylvie Dépatie et al, eds., et marchands, vingt ans après. Lectures de l'histoire des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles canadiens. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's 1998), 138-59.  "The , 1600-1760," in David Sheinin and Carlos Mayo, eds., Es Igual Pero Distinto: Essays in the Histories of Canada and Argentina (Peterborough: 1997), 35-49.

5  "L'hagiographie en Nouvelle-France: le cas de Kateri Tekakwitha," in Marta Dvorak, ed., La Création biographique. (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 1997), 267-74  "The Origins of the Police in Canada," in Greer and Radforth ed., Colonial Leviathan: State Formation in Nineteenth-Century Canada. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1992), 17-49  Allan Greer and Ian Radforth, "Introduction," in ibid., 3-16  “La dimension ville-campagne de l’insurrection de 1837,” in François Lebrun and Normand Séguin, ed., Sociétés villageoises et rapports villes-campagnes au Québec et dans la France de l’ouest XVIIe-XXe siècles. (Trois-Rivières: Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 1987), 231-38.  "L'alphabétisation et son histoire au Québec: état de la question," in Yvan Lamonde ed., Aspects de l'histoire de l'imprimé au Québec (18e-20e s). (Quebec: Institut québécois de recherche sur la culture, 1983), 25-51  "Postscript," in Fernand Ouellet, Economic and Social 1760-1850. (Toronto: Macmillan, 1980), 610-17

REFERENCE WORKS:  “La propriété terrienne dans l’empire français en Amérique,” Bibliothèque nationale de France, Patrimoines partagés website  “Native Appropriations of Christianity,” Princeton Companion to Atlantic History, ed. Joseph Miller (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2014)  "Jacques Cartier"; "Company of New France"; "New France"; "Quebec," Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450 (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan/Gale, 2007)  “Charivari”; “Habitants”; “Marie-Joseph-Angélique”; “Rebellion of 1837”; “Saints and Martyrs,” The Oxford Companion to Canadian History (Toronto: Oxford University Press 2004)  "Fur Trade in North America"; "Rebellions of 1837," Encarta (Redmond, Wa: Microsoft, 1998)  "Callière, L-H. de"; "Lauson, Jean de"; "Lauson, Charles de"; "Mézy, Augustin de Saffray de," The Canadian Encyclopedia (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1985)  “George Davison” and “Kateri Tekakwitha,” Dictionary of Canadian Biography

ONLINE ARTICLES:  “The Never-ending History Wars,” Activehistory.ca, 9 April 2019.  “There was no Seigneurial System,” Borealia, 24 September 2018. o “Le système seigneurial: quel système seigneurial?” Histoire engagée, 2 October 2018. o “Réplique à la critique de Benoît Grenier et Alain Laberge,” ibid, 16 Oct. 2018.  “The Treaty of Cession: a very British Instrument of Dispossession,” Activehistory.ca, 22 June 2018.

6  “Confusion sur les Communs,” La Vie des Idées (Collège de France, Paris), 31 March 2015, http://www.laviedesidees.fr; “Confusion on the Commons,” Books & Ideas.net, 8 December 2014.  “Hurons and Jesuits Revisited: Joseph Boyden’s The Orenda,” Fiction and Film for French Historians: a Cultural Bulletin, h-france.net, vol 4, no. 6 (April 2014).

BOOK REVIEWS:  Gilles Havard, Histoire des coureurs de bois, in Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, vol 66, no 2 (2019): 188-90  Cole Harris, The Reluctant Land, in BC Studies 161 (Spring 2009): 125-27  G. Havard and C. Vidal, Histoire de l'Amérique française, in Canadian Historical Review 86 (March 2005): 114-17  Carole Blackburn, Harvest of Souls, in University of Toronto Quarterly 73 (Winter 2003- 04): 200-01  A.J.B. Johnston, Control and Order in French Colonial Louisbourg, 1713-1758, in Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française 56 (2002): 87-91  Comeau and Dionne, ed., A propos de l'histoire nationale, in Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française 53 (Hiver 2000): 437-39  Louise Dechêne, Le partage des subsistances, in William and Mary Quarterly 53 (January 1996): 201-02  Murray Greenwood, Legacies of Fear, in Social History (January 1995): 111-12  Françoise Noel, The Christie Seigneuries, in Canadian Historical Review 74 (December 1993): 626-27  Naomi Griffiths, The Contexts of Acadian History, in American Historical Review (April 1993): 609-10  R.C. Harris, ed., Historical Atlas of Canada, vol. 1, in Labour/le travail 22 (1988): 273- 74  J.M. Bumsted, Land, Settlement and Politics on...Prince Edward Island, in Canadian Historical Review 69 (September 1988): 420-21  Brian Young, In its Corporate Capacity..., in Social History 13 (January 1988): 135-36  C. Read and R. Stagg, ed., The Rebellion of 1837 in Upper Canada, in Labour/ le travail 18 (Autumn 1986): 227-28  Gérard Parizeau, La vie...de Denis-Benjamin Viger in ibid. 12 (Autumn 1983): 279-80  Fernand Ouellet, Lower Canada, 1791-1840, in Canadian Historical Review (June 1983): 330-31  John McCallum, Unequal Beginnings, in American Review of Canadian Studies 11 (1981): 111-12  Harvey J. Graff, The Literacy Myth, in Labour/le travail 7 (Spring 1981): 187-89

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:  “Settler Colonialism and Empire in Early America,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., vol. 76 (July 2019): 383-90. 7  “Une colonisation aux dépens des peuples indigènes,” La Presse (Montreal), 1 October 2017.  “La crise révolutionnaire de 1837-38,” Enjeux de l’univers social (Association québécoise pour l’enseignement en univers social) 13 (autumne-hiver 2017): 11-16.  “1608 as Foundation,” Thèmes canadiens/Canadian Issues, Fall 2008, 20-23.  “Why is Canadian History so Boring?” Ottawa Citizen, 20 Aug 2005; republished in Edmonton Journal, CHA Bulletin, H-Canada.  “La Nouvelle-France/les Nouvelles-Frances,” French Colonial History, 4 (2003): 15-18.  “Louise Dechêne,” Globe and Mail, 7 July 2000  “Spin: History of a Political Keyword,” Globe and Mail, 6 Sept 1996  “Another Revolt in the Ile Royale Garrison (June 1750),” Acadiensis 12 (Spring 1983): 106-09 (edited document)  The Soldiers of Isle Royale, 1720-45. Ottawa: Parks Canada, 1979  “Misinterpreting Historical Literacy Studies: A Reply,” Histoire sociale-Social History 12 (November 1979): 456-60

CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTIONS, 2014-2020:  “Approches anglaise et française à la colonisation: Pourquoi il n’y a pas eu de traités de cession en Nouvelle-France,” colloque du lieutenant-gouverneur, Québec, 17 January 2020  “Claiming the West for France,” Before Canada Conference, McGill University, 26 October 2019  “Settler Colonialism and Beyond,” Conference Keynote, Canadian Historical Association, Vancouver, June 2019  Commentator, “Formation et transformation des sociétés nouvelles en situation coloniale aux Amériques du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle,” École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, December 2017  Chair and commentator, “Des rencontres entre opposants,” Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française, Montreal, October 2017  “La pêche, les communs maritimes et l’empire français en Amérique du nord,” Les Communs environnementaux: communautés, pratiques et institutions, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, November 2016  Commentator, “Canada and the Continental Dimensions of the American Revolution,” Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, Worcester, MA, June 2016  “On Historical Distance,” panel discussion, Canadian Historical Association, Ottawa, 3 June 2015  “Early Canadian History: Alive and Well,” panel discussion, Canadian Historical Association, Ottawa, 3 June 2015  "Property Formation in the Early French Atlantic," Western Society for French History, San Antonio, 14 November 2014  Commentator, "Faire l’histoire des Indiens des deux Amériques," École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, 17 June 2014 8  Catherine Desbarats and Allan Greer, "North America from the Top Down: Visions of New France," Conference on North American Studies, Centre d'études nord-américaines, EHESS, Paris, 4-6 June 2014  Commentator, "L'émigration entre déplacement et investissement: Les Antilles françaises et les métropoles européennes, 1763-1830," University of Chicago Center in Paris, 16 May 2014

INVITED LECTURES, 2014-2020:  “’France takes Possession of the West’: The Sault Ste-Marie Council of 1671,” McNeil Center for Early American Studies, U. Penn, Philadelphia, 31 Jan 2020  “Property Encounters: New Spain, New France, New England,” Stanton Sharp Lecture, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 14 November 2018  “Spaces of Property,” Boston College, 26 April 2018  “Capitalism and Colonization? Land Grabs in 17th Century North America,” Wilson Centre, McMaster University, 1 March 2018  “Property Formation and Imperial State Formation in the Seventeenth Century: New Spain, New France, New England,” École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, January 2014  "Land, Property and Colonization: Some Conceptual Issues," École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, January 2014; University College, Dublin, March 2014  “Kateri Tekakwitha: l’iroquoise qui a converti un Jésuite,” Sciences Po, Paris, March 2013  “Kateri Tekakwitha: the Mohawk who Converted the Jesuits,” McGill University, Centre for Research on Religion, November 2012; University College, Dublin, March 2014; National University of Ireland, Galway and Maynooth, March 2014  “Dispossession in a Commercial Idiom: From Indian Deeds to Land Cession Treaties,” EHESS, Paris, January 2014

TEACHING

COURSES TAUGHT, 2014-20:  HIST223 Natives of the Americas/Indigenous Peoples and Empires  HIST330 Deep History of Canada  HIST333 Natives and French  HIST334 History of New France  HIST408 Colonialism and Native Peoples  HIST574 Empires and Colonization: North America, 1500-1800 (ug/graduate seminar)  HIST580 European and Native Encounters (ug/graduate seminar)  HIST633 New France Research Seminar (graduate seminar)

POSTDOCTORAL SUPERVISION:

9  Maxime Raymond-Dufour, “La nouvelle d'ici et d'ailleurs : l'universalisme dans le discours journalistique canadien (1826-1852),” 2019-21  Xavier Bérault, “Autogouvernements et résistances des francophones en Amérique du Nord britannique,” 2018-20  Josette Brun, “Vie et mort du couple en Nouvelle-France,” 2000-02  Martin Fournier, “Pierre-Esprit Radisson, coureur de bois et homme du monde,” 1998- 2000

DOCTORAL SUPERVISION:  Julia Roberts, Assoc Prof of History, University of Waterloo, "Tavern Life in Nineteenth- Century Ontario," 1998.  Jerry Bannister, Assoc Prof of History, Dalhousie University, "The Custom of the Country: Justice and the Colonial State in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland," 1999. (CHA, Bullen Prize for best history dissertation of 1999)  Carolyn Podruchny, Prof of History, York University, "'Sons of the Wilderness': Work, Culture and Identity Among in the Montreal Fur Trade, 1780-1821," 1999.  Jane Harrison, Office of the , University of Toronto, "Negotiating Time and Space: Correspondence and Communications in the Canadas, 1630-1820," 2000.  Christopher Parsons, Assoc Prof of History, Northeastern University, “Plants and People: French and Indigenous Botanical Knowledges in Colonial North America, 1600-1760,” 2011. (Finlayson Gold Medal)  Helen Dewar, Asst Prof of History, Université de Montréal, “’Y establir nostre auctorité’: Assertions of Imperial Sovereignty through Proprietorships and Chartered Companies in New France, 1598-1663," 2012. (CHA, Bullen Prize for best history dissertation of 2012)  Jean-François Lozier, Canadian Museum of History, "In Each Other's Arms: France and the St. Lawrence Mission Villages in War and Peace, 1630-1730,” 2012.  Nicholas May, Post-doctoral fellow, UBC, “Feasting On The Aam Of Heaven: The Christianization Of The Nisga’a, 1860-1920,” 2012. (CHA, Bullen Prize for best history dissertation, 2014)  Daniel Laxer, Research Advisor, Ministry of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation, Ontario, “Sound and Rhythm in the Western Canadian Fur Trade, 1760-1860,” 2014.  Julien Mauduit, Post-doctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins University, “Les patriotes en exil: le républicanisme canadien et la construction du continent nord-américain (1837-1842),” (co-supervision, UQAM), 2016.  Andrew Dial, Fulbright scholar, EHESS, “The Lavalette Affair: Jesuits and Money in the French Atlantic,” (co-supervision), 2018  Michael Davis, “Brothers in Arms: The LeMoyne Family and the French Atlantic World, 1672-1744,” (co-supervision), 2020  Fannie Dionne, “8endat et atsihenstatsi: étude des contacts entre jésuites et autochtones à travers les dictionnaires manuscrits de Nouvelle-France (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles)” (co- supervision), 2020  Nathan Ince, “The Uses of Loyalty: Imperialism, Settler Colonialism, and Indigenous Peoples in Upper Canada,” in progress

10  Renée Girard, “La rencontre alimentaire franco-amérindienne en Nouvelle-France,” in progress  Michael LaMonica, “Adjudicating Empire: Maritime Commerce, Litigation, Imperial Structures, and Legal Cultures in the French Colonial Admiralty Courts of North America and the West Indies, 1700-1792,” (co-supervision), in progress  Samuel Derksen, “La Grande Société: A New History of the North West Company,” in progress

EXTERNAL EXAMINER:  Robin MacDonald, PhD, University of York (UK), 2015  Claire Garnier, PhD, Université de Montréal/Clermont II, 2015  Marc-Antoine Boudriau, MA, Université du Québec à Montréal, 2013  Allan Dwyer, PhD, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2011  Jacques Babin, MA, Laurentian University, 2003  John Willis, Ph.D. (Geography), Université Laval, 1998  Martin Fournier, Ph.D., Université Laval, 1998  Steven Watt, MA, McGill University, 1997  Rusty Bitterman, Ph.D., University of New Brunswick, 1991  Wendie Nelson, MA, Simon Fraser University, 1989  David De Brou, Ph.D., University of Ottawa, 1989  Thomas Wien, Ph.D., McGill University, 1987  Joanne Burgess, Ph.D., Université du Québec à Montréal, 1987  Mario Gendron, MA, Université du Québec à Montréal, 1986  Françoise Noel, Ph.D., McGill University, 1985

MA SUPERVISION:  Kevin March, 2018; Riley Wallace, 2018; Salvatore Chiporo, 2017; Gabrielle Bernier, 2017; Michael LaMonica, 2016; Julia Lewandoski, 2013; Dylan Burrows, 2013; Gabriella Gage, 2011; Emily Paskevics, 2011; Melissa Davies, 2010; Margaret Schotte, 2007; Stephanie Mooney, 2007; Christopher Parsons, 2005; James Cullingham, 2004; Mark Celinszak, 2003; Erin Lewis, 2002; Michael Mills, 1998; Ian Armstrong, 1993; Trinka Brine, 1993; Gavin Taylor, 1992; John Doran, 1992; Edgar Montigny, 1989; Cecilia Morgan, 1988; Susan Lewthwaite, 1986; Tina Loo, 1986

SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATION

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, MCGILL, 2014-20  Chair, Indigenous History Search Committee, 2018-19  Tenure and Promotion Committee, 2010-13; 2018-20  Research and Awards Committee, 2016-18  Indigenous Studies/History Appointment, 2015

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MCGILL UNIVERSITY, 2014-20  Canada Research Chair Committee, 2018-19  Mellon post-doctoral fellowships selection committee, 2016  RSC Committee, 2016-19

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION, 2014-2020:  Co-editor, McGill-Queen’s Studies in Early Canada, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019-  Conference program committee, Académie canadienne-française pour l’avancement des sciences, May 2017  Conference program committee, Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française, Montreal, October 2015  Advisory Board, Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française, 1999-  Manuscript assessments: Palgrave Macmillan, Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, McClelland & Stewart, University of Toronto Press, American Historical Review, Canadian Historical Review, William and Mary Quarterly, Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française, Histoire sociale, Labour/le travail, Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, Studies in Religion, Manitoba History, Aid to Scholarly Publishing, Brill Publishers, Historical Studies in Education, University of North Carolina Press, UBC Press, Yale University Press  Tenure and Promotion Assessments: UCLA (2020); Boston College (2020); Washington University at St Louis (2019); Wesleyan University (2018); University of Oregon (2017); University of British Columbia (2010 and 2016); University of Ottawa (2015); Michigan State University (2014); Columbia University (2013); Northwestern University (2012)

COMMUNITY SERVICE AND CONSULTING, 2014-2020:  Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, occasional consultations re historical plaques, 2017-present  Lectured on Quebec in the early 19th C. to history teachers at the commission scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys, February 2017  Media interviews: o New Books Network, August 2018 o “Backstory,” NPR, October 2015

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