ALLAN GREER Curriculum Vitae ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: McGill University, 2009-present, Professor of History o Canada Research Chair in Colonial North America University of Toronto, 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), York University, 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, University of Toronto, 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 New France. 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 "Fur Trade 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