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The University of New Brunswick
CURRICULUM VITAE (June 2021)
SECTION 1: BIOGRAPHICAL
Surname:
Wright
Given Names:
Donald Andrew
Department Address:
Department of Political Science University of New Brunswick Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5A3
Office Phone No.: (506) 458-7494
E-Mail Address: [email protected]
Present Citizenship Status: Canadian
SECTION 2: EDUCATION
2.1 Post-Secondary Education 1999 Doctor of Philosophy: History, University of Ottawa 1991 Master of Arts: History, McGill University 1988 Bachelor of Arts (Honours): History and English, Mount Allison University
2.2 Doctoral Thesis
Title: The Professionalization of History in English Canada
Supervisor: Dr. Michael Behiels Page 2 of 24
2.4 General Areas of Academic Interest
Canadian political, intellectual, cultural history; American history and politics; climate politics
SECTION 3: EMPLOYMENT
3.1 Employment History at UNB
2017- Professor, Department of Political Science
2005-2017 Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
1999-2000 Residence Don, McLeod House
Fall 1999 Lecturer, Department of History
3.2 Previous Employment
2000-2005 Assistant Professor, History and Canadian Studies, Brock University
1999-2000 Lecturer, Department of History, St. Thomas University
1997 Lecturer, St. Thomas University
1996 Lecturer, University of Ottawa
1995 Lecturer, University of Ottawa
3.3 Leaves granted by UNB
July-Dec. 2015 Sabbatical leave
2011-2012 Sabbatical leave
3.4 Distinctions, Honours, Fellowships, Scholarships
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2018 Donald Grant Creighton Award (Awarded by the Ontario Historical Society to the best biography or autobiography highlighting life in Ontario published in the last 3 years)
2017 Finalist, Canada Prize (Awarded by the Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences to the best book in the humanities and social sciences)
May 2015 Writer in Residence, Wallace Stegner House, Eastend, Saskatchewan
2012- Life Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
2011-2012 Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
2006 Shortlist, Sir John A. Macdonald Prize (Awarded by the Canadian Historical Association to the best book in Canadian history)
2000 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined)
1998 Fulbright Scholar, New York University, Department of History
1998 University of Saskatchewan Archives Essay Contest
1997-1998 Queen Elizabeth II Ontario Scholarship (declined)
1997-1998 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (declined)
1996-1997 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship
1995-1996 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (declined)
1994-1998 University of Ottawa Excellence Scholarship
1994-1996 Sir John A. Macdonald Graduate Fellowship in Canadian History
1993-1994 University of Ottawa Research Scholarship
1986-1988 Mount Allison University Dean's List Scholarship
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SECTION 4: DISSEMINATION OF KNOWLEDGE
4.1 Courses Taught in preceding 5 years
Course Title Enrolment
2020-2021 POLS 1451 American Presidential Election 70 POLS 1803 Politics of Climate Change 80
2019-2020 POLS 1803 Politics of Climate Change 80 POLS 4724 Topics in Environmental History and Politics 12
2018-2019 POLS 1803 Politics of Climate Change 49 POLS 3247 Trudeau’s Canada 27 POLS 2202 Canadian Politics 50 POLS 3105 American Politics 38 POLS 4724 Topics in Environmental History and Politics 16
2017-2018 POLS 1803 Politics of Climate Change 45 POLS 3105 American Politics 20 POLS 2202 Canadian Politics 55 POLS 3251 Canadian Federalism 20
2016-2017 POLS 1803 Politics of Climate Change 60 POLS 3247 Trudeau’s Canada 15 POLS 2202 Canadian Politics 50 POLS 3105 American Politics 32 POLS 4724 Topics in Environmental History and Politics 12
4.2 Development of New Courses
POLS 1803 Politics of Climate Change POLS 2202 Canadian Politics POLS 4724 Environmental History and Politics POLS 3247 Trudeau’s Canada POLS 4416 Canadian Political Thought
4.3 Updating of Existing Courses Page 5 of 24
POLS 3251 Canadian Federalism HIST 6301 The Making of Canadian History
4.7 Direction of Research of Undergraduate or Graduate Studies
Undergraduate Supervision (Honours Theses)
Melissa Lappage, “Climate Politics from the Bottom-Up: Three Case Studies,” 2021
Paul Farquharson, “Climate Federalism in Canada: Where Are We and How Did We Get Here?” 2021
Kelsey Benoit, “Climate Justice and Northern Indigenous Populations: The Canadian Arctic,” 2020
Mharie Scott-Henderson, “Green Parties in Germany and Canada: A History,” 2019
Caroline Mercier, “Explaining Donald Trump,” 2018
Alan Jones, “Humanity Washed Ashore: The Syrian Refugee Crisis and Canada,” 2017
Joseph Burton, "The Religious Political Complex: The New American Right and the Politics of Fear," 2016 (Winner of UNB's Douglas Gold Medal for best undergraduate composition)
Vanja Mitrovic, "Canadian Federalism and Climate Change," 2015
Mathieu Potter, "Canada's War in Afghanistan," 2015
Colin Marshall, "The Road to Reconciliation: Prime Minister Harper's Apology to Former Students of Indian Residential Schools," 2015
Christopher Lardner, "Vimy as Event and Symbol," 2015
Melissa Warren, “Peking Canuck: Canada’s Recognition of China,” 2011
Tabatha Armstrong, “Understanding Canadian Nationalism: Pauline Johnson, George Grant, and Pierre Trudeau,” 2011
Edward Legge, “Making Parliament Work: The Bloc Québécois as a Party in the Canadian Parliament,” 2011
Page 6 of 24 Oliver Gorman-Asal, “American Liberalism: A Return to the Past,” 2010
Niels Dueck, “Canada and the Politics of Climate Change,” 2010
David Bryden, “The Charter and Rights Consciousness,” 2010 (Winner of UNB's Douglas Gold Medal for best undergraduate composition)
Jacquie Ott, “Quebec Nationalism Since the 1995 Referendum,” 2010
Christo Aivalis, “Pierre Trudeau, Organized Labour, and the Canadian Left: 1949-1984,” 2009
Peter Nimigon, “Pierre Trudeau, Brian Mulroney, Stephen Harper and the ‘problem’ of Quebec’s role in the Canadian Confederation,” 2009
Cody Waite, “Alberta and Newfoundland: The Provincial Struggle for Natural Resource Revenues,” 2009
Kevin Courser, “Melting the Ice: Canada, the United States, and Arctic Sovereignty,” 2009
Kathryn Sheppard, “The Australian Senate: A Guide to Senate Reform in Canada?” 2008
Sarah Brown, “A National Consensus: Canada’s Official Languages Policy Between 1960 and 1988,” 2008
Kelsey Seymour, “Politics from the Pulpit: Voting the Jesus Line in American Politics,” 2007
SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow
Robert Talbot, “Re-imagining Canada: Promoting Anglophone/Francophone Reconciliation from the Second World War to the Quiet Revolution,” 2014-2016
PhD Theses
John Leroux, “Make Way for Tomorrow: New Brunswick’s Visual and Cultural Modernity, 1930-1967,” Department of History, UNB, 2020
Brent White, “Accounting for Change: Three Essays on the Evolution of the Legislative Audit Function in New Brunswick, 1906-2020,” Interdisciplinary Studies, UNB, 2020
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PhD Committee Member
Teresa Devor Hall, “Living Weather for Survival: Cultivating Local Climatic Knowledge in New Brunswick, circa 1790-1870,” Department of History, UNB, 2018
MA Theses
Chris Lardner, “When the Dust Settles: Early Interpretations of Canada’s War in Afghanistan,” Department of Political Science, UNB, 2017
Janice Harvey, “The Green Party of Canada as A New Politics Party: Philosophical and Programmatic Foundations,” Interdisciplinary Studies, UNB, 2009 (Co-supervised with Drs. John Valk and Tom Beckley)
Anthony Hampton, “‘I don’t think Canadians are going to sit still and let it happen’: The New Brunswick Ad Hoc Committee on the Constitution and Citizens’ Response to the Meech Lake Accord,” Department of History, UNB, 2008 (Co-supervised with Dr. Margaret Conrad)
MA Report
Carrie Culligan Yeamans, “Broadening Democracy in New Brunswick’s Local Service Districts by Engaging the Public in the Creation of Shared Service Agreements,” Interdisciplinary Studies, UNB, 2012
MA Major Research Paper
Andrew McCuish, “The Alliance of Small Island States and Climate Change: The Importance of Lived Experience in Deciding Policy in the International Community,” Department of Political Science, UNB, 2019
Simon Chinamula Sebutimbanyl, “International Interventions to the Rawandan Genocide: United Nations' and Canada's Responses,” Department of Political Science, UNB, 2015
Michael Bourgeois, “The Politics of the Africville Apology,” Department of Political Science, UNB, 2011
Kevin Courser, “Sovereignty and International Law: American Exceptionalism and Anti- Constitutionalism in Enmity Of The International Criminal Court And The Demoralization Of International Law,” Department of Political Science, UNB, 2011
Page 8 of 24 Brian Munn, “Federalism and Quebec: The Greatest Hurdle to National Unity,” Department of Political Science, UNB, 2008 MA Major Research Paper (in progress)
Rowan Miller, “Defining the Climate Change Regime: Neoliberalism in the UNFCCC,” Department of Political Science, UNB, Fall 2021
Theses Examined
PhD Theses
Koral LaVorgna, “Lessons in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick Teacher Careerism,” Department of History, UNB, 2016
W.E. Campbell, “Forts, Writs and Logs: A Reassessment of the Military, Political, and Economic Dimensions of the Maine/New Brunswick Border Dispute, 1783-1843,” Department of History, UNB, 2010
Corey Slumkoski, “Atlantic Canada in the Making: The Reaction of the Maritime Provinces to Newfoundland’s Entry into Confederation, 1945-1949,” Department of History, UNB, 2009
Kirk Niergarth, “Art and democracy: New Brunswick artists and Canadian culture between the Great Depression and the Cold War,” Department of History, UNB, 2007
MA Theses
Kate MacDonald, “Power, Politics, and Vulnerable Populations: Analyzing the Silences of the Zika Virus Response,” Department of Political Science, UNB, 2019
Cody Hamilton, "Perks of the Job: Patient Labour and Agency in New Brunswick's Provincial Hospital for Nervous Diseases, 1900-1945," Department of History, UNB, 2016
Conor Falvey, "Foregrounds: Mapping Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual History in Fredericton, 1969-1992," Department of History, UNB, 2015
Patrick Marsh, "Machinists of Moncton: The Endeavours of Local 594, International Association of Machinists, 1916-1933," Department of History, UNB, 2010
Matt Heiti, "I Dragged My Coffin Through the Lonely North," Department of English (Creative Writing), UNB, 2010
Bjorn Lagerlof, “Dief the consistent chief: Diefenbaker's United Nations policy between Page 9 of 24 1957 and 1960,” Department of History, UNB, 2008
Patrick Webber, “‘For a socialist New Brunswick’: the New Brunswick waffle, 1967- 1972,” Department of History, UNB, 2008
Jeffrey Prosser, “R.B. Bennett and Maritime Identity, 1927-1938,” Department of History, UNB, 2007
Shawna Stairs Quinn, “Sympathetic and Practical Men: School Inspectors and New Brunswick’s Educational Bureaucracy, 1879-1909,” Department of History, UNB, 2006
Tim Fuchs, “Towards a just community: an examination of the development of cultural citizenship rights in Canada,” Department of Political Science, Brock University, 2005
4.9 Awards or honours for Teaching
Arts Faculty Teaching Award (Nominated, 2021)
Arts Faculty Teaching Award (Nominated, 2019)
University Teaching Scholar (Nominated, 2015)
Allan P. Stuart Award for Excellence in Teaching (Nominated, 2012)
Arts Faculty Teaching Award (2010)
Arts Faculty Teaching Award (Shortlisted, 2007)
Arts Faculty Teaching Award (Shortlisted, 2006)
Allan P. Stuart Award for Excellence in Teaching (Nominated, 2006)
Student Choice Award for Excellence in Teaching (Nominated, 2006)
Brock University Faculty of Humanities Award for Excellence in Teaching (2005)
St. Thomas University Student Union Honour Roll for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (1997)
SECTION 5: RESEARCH, SCHOLARLY, OR CREATIVE ACTIVITY
5.1 Articles Published or Accepted for Publication in Refereed Journals
Page 10 of 24 “Portrait of the Historian: Ramsay Cook, 1931-2016,” Canadian Historical Review, vol. 100, no. 1, March 2019, pp. 70-75
“His Macdonald, My Creighton, Biography, and the Writing of History,” Canadian Historical Review, vol. 98, no. 2, June 2017, pp. 338-55
“Creighton, Donald Grant,” Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 20, 2013. Available on-line at http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/creighton_donald_grant_20E.html
"Gender and the professionalization of history in English Canada before 1960," Canadian Historical Review, vol. 81, no. 1, March 2000, pp. 29-66
"W.D. Lighthall and David Ross McCord: Antimodernism and English-Canadian Imperialism, 1880s-1918," Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 32, no. 2, Summer 1997, pp. 134-153
"Donald Creighton and the French Fact, 1920s to 1970s," Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, New Series, vol. 6, 1995, pp. 243-272
5.3 a) Books
Canada: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Also available as an Audiobook at audiobooks.com.
Symbols of Canada, Toronto: Between the Lines Press, 2018; co-edited with Michael Dawson and Catherine Gidney
Donald Creighton: A Life in History, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015
Winner, Donald Creighton Award, 2018
Finalist, Canada Prize, 2017
The Professionalization of History in English Canada, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005
Shortlisted, Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, 2006
Canadian Studies: An Introductory Reader, Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt, 2004
b) Parts of books
“Introduction,” in Symbols of Canada (Toronto: Between the Lines Press, 2018), 1-7. Co- authored with Michael Dawson and Catherine Gidney.
Page 11 of 24 “North,” in Symbols of Canada (Toronto: Between the Lines Press, 2018), 42-51
“Flag,” in Symbols of Canada (Toronto: Between the Lines Press, 2018), 86-95
c) Articles in edited volumes
"Ceci n'est pas Ramsay Cook: A Biographical Reconnaissance," in Doug Munro and John Reid, eds, Clio’s Lives: Biographies and Autobiographies of Historians (Canberra: ANU Press, 2017), pp. 103-34
“The Writing of the History of Canada and of South Africa,” Oxford History of Historical Writing, vol. 4 (Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 390-409. Co-authored with Chris Saunders.
d) Booklet
The Canadian Historical Association: A History, Canadian Historical Association, Historical Booklet Series, 2003
e) Scholarly introductions to re-prints
Introduction to a new edition of Donald Creighton, John A. Macdonald: The Young Politician, The Old Chieftain (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018), pp. vii-xxviii
Introduction to a new edition of Ramsay Cook, The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016), pp. xxiii-xlviii
Introduction to a new edition of Luella Creighton, The Elegant Canadians (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 1-8
Introduction to a new edition of Donald Creighton, The Road to Confederation (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. v-xvii
Introduction to a new edition of Donald Creighton, Canada’s First Century (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. v-xv
f) Foreword
“Doug Munro: A Very Short Introduction.” Foreword to Doug Munro, History Wars: The Peter Ryan-Manning Clark Controversy (Canberra: ANU Press, forthcoming 2021)
g) Book manuscripts in preparation
Ramsay Cook: A Life in Six Chapters
Page 12 of 24 The Battle of the Budworm: New Brunswick’s Spruce Budworm Spraying Program, 1952- 1960 (with Mark McLaughlin)
5.4 Editorial Responsibilities
2019-21 Co-editor, Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region
2016- Book review editor, Canadian Historical Review
2005-08 Co-editor, Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes
Editorial Board Responsibilities
2018- Member, Editorial Board, The New Brunswick Bibliography Series
2017- Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes
2016- Member, Editorial Board, Canadian Historical Review
2010- Member, Advisory Board, Journal of New Brunswick Studies
2010- Member, Editorial Board, Acadiensis
2015-16 Member, Advisory Board, Canadian Historical Review
2014-21 Member, Editorial Board, Journal of New Brunswick Studies
1994-2002 Editor, CHA Bulletin. Tri-annual, bilingual newsletter of the Canadian Historical Association
5.6 Non-Refereed Publications
Articles
“Sesquicentennial Cerebrations,” Acadiensis, vol. 46, no. 1 (Spring 2017), pp. 145-151
“A biographer's flawed portrait reveals hard truths about history,” Canadian Issues/Thèmes canadiennes (Summer 2015), pp. 14-18
“The Curious Case of Donald Creighton,” Dorchester Review, vol. 3, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2013), pp. 46-53
Page 13 of 24 “Reflections on Donald Creighton and the Appeal of Biography,” Journal of Historical Biography, vol. 1, no. 1 (Winter 2007), pp. 14-26
“History at the University of Saskatchewan from E.H. Oliver to Hilda Neatby,” Essays: University of Saskatchewan, vol. 1, no. 1 (1999), pp. 1-47
First prize, University of Saskatchewan Archives Essay Contest
“Remembering War in Imperial Canada: David Ross McCord and the McCord National Museum,” Fontanus: from the collections of McGill, vol. ix, (1996), pp. 97-104
Review Essays
“Climate Non-Fiction: A New Genre,” Literary Review of Canada, forthcoming 2021
“Howard Zinn, The People’s Historian,” Labour/Le Travail, vol. 73, no. 1, Spring 2014, pp. 265-277
“Pierre Trudeau, Michael Ignatieff, and the Flame of 1968,” Acadiensis, vol. 38, no. 2, Fall 2009, pp. 159-167. Co-authored with Thomas Cheney.
“The Many Misters Trudeau,” The Underhill Review, vol. 1, no. 1, Fall 2007. Available on-line at www.carleton.ca/underhillreview/07/fall/reviews/wright.htm
“Trudeau and the Politics of Language,” Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 35, no. 3, 2000, pp. 268-279
“Affirmative Action in the United States: Past, Present, and Future,” Canadian Review of American Studies, vol. 29, no. 2, 1999, pp. 135-148
“Meaning, Memory and Myth,” Literary Review of Canada, vol. 7, no. 4, December 1998, pp. 25-27
“The Invention of Tradition,” Literary Review of Canada, vol. 5, no. 5, May 1996, pp. 14- 16
“Discourse, Power and Tradition: approach and method in English-Canadian intellectual history,” Acadiensis, vol. 24, no. 2, Spring 1995, pp. 122-134
“Regionalism, Politics and Canadian Unity in the Age of a Global Economy,” Acadiensis, vol. 22, no. 2, Spring 1993, pp. 177-185
Op-eds Page 14 of 24
“In his book The New Climate War, Michael Mann is a climate jedi,” The Globe and Mail, 14 February 2021. Available on-line at https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/reviews/article-in-his- book-the-new-climate-war-michael-mann-is-a-climate-jedi/
“The Audacity of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream,” The Toronto Star, 18 January 2021. Available on-line at https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2021/01/18/the- audacity-of-martin-luther-king-jrs-dream.html
“New Brunswick PCs’ steady hand gave them an edge in Canada’s first pandemic election,” The Globe and Mail, September 15, 2020. Available on-line at https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-new-brunswick-pcs-steady-hand-gave- them-an-edge-in-canadas-first/
“Pierre Trudeau was a remarkable man, but not Canada’s national saviour,” CBC.ca, 3 November 2019. Available on-line at https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-pierre- trudeau-donald-wright-1.5335432
Blog Posts
“Justice Thomas Berger Also Worried About Climate Change,” The Otter: The Blog of the Network in Canadian History and Environment, 11 May 2021. Available online at https://niche-canada.org/2021/05/11/justice-thomas-berger-also-worried-about-climate- change/
“Love’s Labours Found: The Autumn 2020 Issue of Acadiensis,” The Acadiensis Blog, 24 November 2020. With Suzanne Morton. Available online at https://acadiensis.wordpress.com/2020/11/24/loves-labours-found-the-autumn-2020-issue- of-acadiensis/
“Miss Canadian History: An Archive Story,” Active History, 1 September 2020. Available on-line at https://activehistory.ca/2020/09/miss-canadian-history-an-archive-story/#more- 29102
“The History of Canada Day,” Oxford University Press Blog, 1 July 2020. Available on- line at https://blog.oup.com/2020/07/the-history-of-canada-day/. Re-printed in Intersections, vol. 3, no. 2, 2020, p. 53
“Reading Canadian History in Isolation,” Active History, 15 April 2020. Available on-line at https://activehistory.ca/2020/04/reading-canadian-history-in-isolation/
“Great Lives, a perfect pandemic podcast,” Borealia, 11 April 2020. Available on-line at https://earlycanadianhistory.ca/2020/04/13/great-lives-the-perfect-pandemic-podcast/
Page 15 of 24 “Ramsay Cook, 1931-2016: Scholar and Friend,” Active History, 22 July 2016. Available on-line at http://activehistory.ca/2016/07/ramsay-cook-1931-2016-an-obituary/
“Donald Creighton, John Gray, and the Making of Macdonald,” Historical Perspectives on Canadian Publishing. Available on-line at http://hpcanpub.mcmaster.ca/case-study/donald- creighton-john-gray-and-making-macdonald
Bibliographies
“Black History in Atlantic Canada: A Bibliography,” Acadiensis, vol. 50, no. 1, Spring 2021 (forthcoming). With Suzanne Morton.
“E.R. Forbes, 1940-2015: A Bibliography,” Acadiensis, vol. 46, no. 1, Spring 2017, pp. 236-243
Encyclopedia Entries
“Grant, George Monro” in World Book Encyclopedia (Chicago, 2008): 311
“Twentieth century belongs to Canada (Laurier)” and “historical societies” in Gerald Hallowell, ed., The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2004
Book Reviews
Lester Pearson, Mike: The Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Lester B. Pearson, vols. I-III (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015) in Ontario History, vol. 109, no. 1 (Spring 2017), pp. 152-155
Michael Bliss, Writing History: A Professor’s Life (Toronto: Dundurn, 2011) and E.R. Forbes, The Education of an Innocent (Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 2012) in Historical Studies in Education, 25, 2 (2013), pp. 148-152
Ralph Heintzman, ed., Tom Symons: A Canadian Life (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2011) in Historical Studies in Education, 25, 2 (2013), pp. 153-155
Gerald Friesen and Doug Owram, eds., Thinkers and Dreamers: Historical Essays in Honour of Carl Berger (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011) in Canadian Historical Review, vol. 93, no. 2, May 2012
Chad Reimer, Writing British Columbia History, 1784-1958 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009) in Canadian Historical Review, vol. 91, no. 4, December 2010
Page 16 of 24 Christopher Dummitt and Michael Dawson, eds., Contesting Clio’s Craft: New Directions and Debates in Canadian History (London: Institute for the Study of the Americas, 2009) in Labour/Le Travail, vol. 65, Spring 2010
John Watson, Marginal Man: The Dark Vision of Harold Innis (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005) in Canadian Historical Review vol. 88, no. 2, June 2007
Keith C. Sewell, Herbert Butterfield and the Interpretation of History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) in American Historical Review, vol. 111, no.2, April 2006
Terry Crowley, Marriage of Minds: Isabel and Oscar Skelton Reinventing Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003) in Canadian Historical Review, vol. 86, no. 1, March 2005
Charles Blattberg, Shall We Dance? A Patriotic Politics for Canada (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s, 2003) in Histoire sociale/Social History, vol. 37, no. 74, November 2004
Donald Creighton, The Empire of the St. Lawrence: A Study in Commerce and Politics (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002) in Canadian Historical Review, vol. 85, no. 3, September 2004
Veronica Strong-Boag and Carole Gerson, Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000) in Historical Studies in Education, vol. 15, no. 2, Fall 2003
Philip Massolin, Canadian Intellectuals, the Tory Tradition, and the Challenge of Modernity, 1939-1970 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2001) in Canadian Historical Review, vol. 84, no. 1, March 2003
J.E. Hodgetts, The Sound of One Voice: Eugene Forsey and his letters to the press, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000) in Labour/Le Travail, no. 50, Fall 2002
David Frank, J.B. McLachlin: A Biography, (Toronto: Lorimer, 1999) in On The Table: A Review of Work and Society, no. 6, November 2000
H.V. Nelles, The Art of Nation Building: Pageantry and Spectacle at Quebec's Tercentenary, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999) in Literary Review of Canada, vol. 8, no. 4, May 2000
Beverly Boutilier, Alison Prentice, eds., Creating Historical Memory: English Canadian Women and the Work of History, (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1997) in University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 68, no. 1, 1998/99
Robert H. MacDonald, Sons of the Empire: The Frontier and the Boy Scout Movement, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993) in Histoire sociale/Social History, vol. 29, Page 17 of 24 no. 57, 1996
David Cayley, "The Legacy of Harold Innis," CBC Radio, Ideas, 6, 13, 20 December 1994 in Innis Research Bulletin, no. 3, December 1995
Esther Delisle, The Traitor and the Jew: Anti-Semitism and the delirium of extremist right-wing nationalism in French Canada from 1929-1939, (Montreal: Robert Davies Publishing, 1993) in Canadian Women Studies, vol. 14, no. 4, Fall 1994
John Crispo, Making Canada Work: Competing in the Global Economy, (Toronto: Random House, 1992) in New Maritimes, vol. 12, no. 2, Nov./Dec. 1993
F.O. Hampson and C.J. Maule, eds., Canada Among Nations 1990-91: After the Cold War, (Ottawa: Carleton, 1991) in Policy Options/Options Politiques, Nov. 1992
Invited Lectures
“Airport Kitsch, National Symbols, and Canadian History,” Canadian-American Distinguished Lecturer Series, University of Maine, 8 November 2017
“Ramsay Cook: A Table of Contents,” Department of History, York University, 2 December 2016
"His Macdonald, My Creighton, Biography, and the Writing of History," Donald Creighton Lecture, University of Toronto, 9 April 2016
“Donald Creighton: A Life in Photographs,” Wilson Institute for Canadian History, McMaster University, 27 November 2014
“Donald Creighton: Man, Myth, Memory,” Angus Gilbert Memorial Lecture, Laurentian University, 13 November 2002
“Remembering Pierre: the many meanings of Mr. Trudeau,” 2001-2002 Convocation Lecture Series, Franklin College, Franklin, IN, 2 October 2001
5.8 Papers Presented at Professional and Technical Meetings
“Symbols of Canada: An Introduction,” Canadian Historical Association, University of Regina, 28-30 May 2018
“Ramsay Cook and French Canada in 3½ Chapters,” Congrès de l’Association Française d’études canadiennes, 15 June 2017 [Via skype.]
“Ramsay Cook: Portrait of the Historian as a Young Man,” Canadian Historical Page 18 of 24 Association, Ryerson University, 29-31 May 2017
"Ceci n'est pas Ramsay Cook: A Biographical Reconnaissance," Workshop on Biography, Australia National University, 4-5 July 2015
“Biography as Transnational History: Mark McKenna’s Manning Clark and my Donald Creighton,” Canadian Historical Association, Brock University, 26-28 May 2014
“The Central African Federation, Decolonization, and the Curious Connection to Canada,” Canadian Historical Association, University of Victoria, 3-5 June 2013
“Donald Creighton, the Laurentian Thesis, and Environmental History,” British Association of Canadian Studies, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, 4-5 April 2012
“The Last English Canadian: Donald Creighton in/and the 1960s,” Two Days of Canada, Brock University, November 4-5, 2010
“English Canada, Anti-Americanism, and the Curious Case of Donald Creighton,” Association of Canadian Studies in the United States, San Diego, November 18-21, 2009
“Dear Eugene, Dear Donald: the correspondence of Donald Creighton and Eugene Forsey, 1965-1975,” University of Saskatchewan, March 26-27, 2004
“Donald Creighton: A Life in History, or Writing Biography in an Age of Anxiety,” University of Toronto and its Histories, University of Toronto, May 26, 2002
“The Canadian Historical Association: its past, its future,” The Future of the Past, University of Western Ontario, March 15-17, 2002
"Historians and Nationalism: the case of Arthur Lower," Centre for Canadian Studies, Mount Allison University, November 11-13, 1999
"The Rockefeller Foundation and the Development of the Social Sciences in English Canada to 1957," Organization of American Historians, Toronto, April 22-25, 1999
"American Philanthropy and the Social Sciences: a critique of the radical historiography," American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch, University of San Diego, August 6-9, 1998
"The Canadian-American Relations Series: The Carnegie Endowment and English- Canadian Historians," Canadian Historical Association, University of Ottawa, May 30- June 1, 1998
Page 19 of 24 "The Importance of Being Sexist, or The Professionalization of History in English Canada to the 1950s," Canadian Historical Association, Memorial University of Newfoundland, June 5-8, 1997
"The Undergraduate History Curriculum at English-Canadian Universities, 1900-1945," Canadian History of Education Association/History of Education Society (USA), Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, October 17-20, 1996
"English-Canadian Historians and their Quest for Authority, 1919-1945,” Milton Plesur American Studies Conference, SUNY at Buffalo, April 26, 1996
"Donald Creighton and the French Fact, 1920s-1970s," Canadian Historical Association, Université du Québec à Montréal, August 24-27, 1995
"W.D. Lighthall and David Ross McCord: Antimodernism and English-Canadian Imperialism, 1880s-1918," Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Edinburgh, May 5- 7, 1995
"From Linda Kerber's Republican Mother to Mark Kann's Man Question: American Republicanism and Gender," History in the Making: Gender and National Identity, Concordia University, March 12-13, 1994
5.10 Consulting Activities, Professional Services to Governmental, Professional and Industrial Associations, Educational Institutions and Granting Agencies. (Include refereeing of articles or books, and external refereeing of promotion cases.)
Manuscript assessments
McGill-Queen’s University Press
University of Toronto Press
UBC Press
Oxford University Press
McGraw-Hill Ryerson
Pearson Canada
Article assessments
Page 20 of 24 Canadian Journal of Political Science
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Nations and Nationalism
Journal of Labor and Society
Labour/Le Travail
Material Culture Review
History Compass
Canadian Historical Review
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
Journal of Canadian Studies
Journal of Historical Biography
Histoire sociale/Social History
Acadiensis
Journal of New Brunswick Studies
The Historian
History of Intellectual Culture
Historical Studies: Journal of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association
Journal of Military History
Bulletin d'histoire politique
Revue de l’Université de Moncton
Research Grant Application Assessments
Multidisciplinary Social Sciences Adjudication Committee, Insight Development Grants, SSHRC, 2021
National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D.C., 2012
Page 21 of 24 SSHRC Standard Research Grant, 2011, 2005
Royal Society of Canada Nomination Review
Nomination dossier review coordinated by the Global Excellence Initiative (Universities Canada/Universités Canada) 2021
Promotion Assessments
Department of History, Trent University, 2020
Department of Political Science, York University, 2018
Department of History, Western University, 2018
Department of History, York University, 2008
Quality Assurance Review, External Advisor
Department of Political Science, UPEI, May 2014
5.11 Awards (Grants, Contracts, Fellowships)
2019- Principal Investigator, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Gant, $36,708. Research Project: Ramsay Cook: A Biography
2018 UNB Harrison McCain Foundation Award, Grant in Aid of Scholarly Book Publishing for Symbols of Canada, $5,000
2017 Co-investigator, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Connection Gant, $30,544. Research Project: Canada 150: Symbols of Canada – Rethinking Our (Un)Common Reference Points. With Michael Dawson (Principal Investigator) and Catherine Gidney (Co-investigator).
2015 Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences, Aid to Scholarly Publication Programme Grant for Donald Creighton: A Life in History, $8,000.
2002-07 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Standard Research Grant, $28,140. Research Project: Donald Creighton: A Life in History Page 22 of 24
2004 Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, Aid to Scholarly Publication Programme Grant for The Professionalization of History in English Canada
2004 Rockefeller Archives Center Research Grant, $1,150. Research Project: Donald Creighton and the Rockefeller Foundation
2001 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council New Faculty Research Fund, Brock University, $2,500. Research Project: Donald Creighton: A Life in History
2001 Ontario Work Study Plan, Brock University, $750. Research Project: Remembering Pierre: The many meanings of Mr. Trudeau
1997 Rockefeller Archives Center Research Grant, $1,000. Research Project: The Rockefeller Foundation and the Development of the Social Sciences in Canada
SECTION 6: SERVICE
6.1 Service to the University 2020- Chair, Department of Political Science 2020- Chair, Teaching Awards Committee, Faculty of Arts 2019-20 Acting chair, Department of Political Science 2018-19 Member, School of Graduate Studies Executive Committee 2018-19 Member, Joint Senate Admissions Committee 2013-17 Member, Senate Teaching Excellence and Policy Committee 2017 Member, School of Graduate Studies committee to select Governor General’s Gold Medal 2017-20 Member, Faculty of Arts committee to rank applications to the Shaw Trust for performing arts at UNB
2017 Member, School of Graduate Studies committee to rank SSHRC CGS applications
2016 Member, Selection Committee for the Faculty of Arts nomination for the Governor General’s Gold Medal Page 23 of 24
2013-16 Member, Board of Governors
2013-16 Ex-officio member, Senate
2013-16 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science
2013-15 Chair, Teaching Awards Committee, Faculty of Arts
2014 Member, Selection Committee for the Faculty of Arts nomination for the Governor General’s Gold Medal
2014 Member, Pam and John Little Scholarship Committee, School of Graduate Studies
2013 Member, SSHRC Doctoral Award Committee, School of Graduate Studies
2013 Search Committee for Chair of Department of History
2012-13 Departmental Representative, Curriculum Committee, Faculty of Arts
2008-11 Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Political Science
2009-11 Arts 1000 Committee, Faculty of Arts
2007-09 UNB Trudeau Fellowship Selection Committee
2007 Search Committee for Chair of Department of Political Science
2007 Search Committee for Chair of Department of History
2006-09 UNB University Research Fund Committee
6.2 Service outside the University of scholarly or academic significance
2019- Member, Canadian Studies Network Prize Committees for Best Undergraduate Essay and Best MA Thesis
2018 Member, Canadian Studies Network Prize Committee for Best Book
2016- Member, Advisory Board, Canadian Studies Network / Réseau d'études canadiennes
Page 24 of 24 2012-18 Member, Publications Committee, Award to Scholarly Publications Program, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
2016 Chair, Canadian Studies Network Prize Committee for Best MA Thesis
2015 Chair, Canadian Studies Network Prize Committee for Best PhD Dissertation
2014-15 Member, Garneau Medal Committee, Canadian Historical Association
2014-15 Member, Programme Committee, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association
2012-14 Member, Sir John A. Macdonald Prize Committee, Canadian Historical Association
2012-14 Member, Nominating Committee, Canadian Historical Association
2010-11 Chair, Programme Committee, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association
2007-08 Member, Programme Committee, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association
2007-12 Board Member, Atlantic Metropolis Centre
2004-05 Fourth-year Co-ordinator, Department of History, Brock University
1994-2002 English Language Secretary, Canadian Historical Association
2002 Chair, Organizing Committee, Two Days of Canada Conference, Brock University
2000-05 Faculty Advisor Committee on Canadian Studies, Brock University
2000-02 Co-Chair, Honours History Speakers Series Committee, Brock University
2002 Member, Search Committee, Colonial America, Brock University
2001 Chair, Search Committee, Pre-Confederation Canada, Brock University