Carolyn Podruchny

DR. CAROLYN PODRUCHNY

History Department, York University
2140 Vari Hall, 4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario CANADA M3J 1P3
Tel: 416-736-5123 Fax: 416-736-5836
Email: carolynp@yorku.ca

 

EDUCATION

1992-99 Doctorate of Philosophy, History, University of Toronto
Dissertation: "'Sons of the Wilderness': Work, Culture and Identity Among Voyageurs in the Montreal Fur Trade, 1780-1821" Doctoral Supervisor: Allan Greer
1991-92 Master of Arts, History, University of Toronto
1990-91 Cours de français, Université Laval
1987-90 Bachelor of Arts Joint Honours, History and Geography, with a Northern Studies Minor,
McGill University

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

July 2007 – present, York University, Associate Professor, Department of History
July 2004-07, York University, Assistant Professor, Department of History
September 2005-present, York University, Member of the Graduate Program in History
July 2003 – July 2006, University of Winnipeg, Adjunct Professor, Department of History
August 2001 – June 2004, Western Michigan University, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Program in American Studies
January 2001 - August 2001, The Newberry Library, Interim Director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History
October 1999 - December 2000, University of Winnipeg, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow, History
March 2000 - June 2000, Università di Genova (Italy), Canadian Studies Intern, Centro di Ricerca in Studi Canadesi

HONOURS AND AWARDS

2008 Short-listed for the Margaret McWilliams Award for best book in Manitoba history published in 2007 (special permission to submit for 2007)
2007 Short-listed for the Canadian Historical Association’s Sir John A. MacDonald Prize for the best book in Canadian history published in 2006
2007 York University Faculty of Arts Award of Merit
2006 York University Faculty of Arts Award of Merit
2005 York University Faculty of Arts Dean's Award for Outstanding Research
2005 York University Faculty of Arts Award of Merit,
2003 Canadian Historical Review Award for best article in the journal for 2002
1990 Manitoba Historical Society’s Margaret McWilliams Award for Undergraduate Essay
1990 Canadian Association of Geographers’ Undergraduate Award for McGill University
1989 James McGill Award, McGill University

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Monographs
1. Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press and Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. xx + 414 pp.

 

Edited Collections
1. Germaine Warkentin and Carolyn Podruchny, eds. Decentring the Renaissance: Canada and Europe in Multidisciplinary Perspective, 1500-1700. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. xii + 387 pp.

 

Refereed Journal Articles
1. “Werewolves and Windigos: Narratives of Cannibal Monsters in French-Canadian Voyageur Oral Tradition.” Ethnohistory 51: 4 (fall 2004), 677-700. 23 pp.
2. “Un homme-libre se construit une identité: Voyage de Joseph Constant au Pas, de 1773 à 1853.” Cahiers franco-canadiennes de l’Ouest, Numéro spécial sur La question métissage : entre la polyvalence et l’ambivalence identitaires 14 :1 et 2 (2002), 33-59. 26 pp.
3. “Baptizing Novices: Ritual Moments Among French Canadian Voyageurs in the Montreal Fur Trade, 1780-1821." Canadian Historical Review 83: 2 (June 2002), 165-95. 30 pp.
4. "Unfair Masters and Rascally Servants? Labour Relations Between Bourgeois, Clerks and Voyageurs in the Montreal Fur Trade, 1780-1821." Labour/ Le Travail: Journal of Canadian Labour Studies 43, (spring 1999), 43-70. 27 pp.
Reprinted in Canadian History Reader, Volumes I and II, edited by Margaret Conrad and Alvin Finkel (Toronto: Pearson Education Canada, 2003); and in Readings in Canadian History, Pre-Confederation,  Seventh Canadian Edition, edited by R. Douglas Francis and Donald B. Smith, (Toronto: Thomson Nelson, 2007).

Refereed Articles in Edited Collections and Conference Proceedings
1. Co-written with Bethel Saler. "Glass Curtains and Storied Landscapes: Fur Trade Historiography in Canada and the United States.” In Bridging National Borders, edited by Andrew Graybill and Benjamin Johnson. Duke University Press, 2008. In press.
2. “Writing, Ritual, and Folklore: Imagining the Cultural Geography of Voyageurs.” In Canadian Environmental History Reader, edited by Alan MacEachern and William Turkel. Toronto: Thompson-Nelson, 2008.
3. With Germaine Warkentin. “Introduction: ‘Other Land Existing.’” In Germaine Warkentin and Carolyn Podruchny, eds. Decentring the Renaissance: Canada and Europe in Multidisciplinary Perspective, 1500-1700. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. 13 pp.
4. "Dieu, Diable and the Trickster: Voyageur Religious Syncretism in the Pays d'en haut, 1770-1821." Western Oblate Studies 5 Études Oblates de l'Ouest 5 Actes du cinquième colloque sur l'histoire des Oblats dans l'Ouest et le Nord canadiens/ Proceedings of the fifth symposium on the history of the Oblates in Western and Northern Canada, edited by Raymond Huel and Gilles Lesage, 75-92. Winnipeg: Western Canadian Publishers, La Société historique de Saint Boniface, Presses universitaires de Saint Boniface and Centre d'études franco canadiennes de l'Ouest, 2000. 17 pp.
5. “Festivities, Fortitude and Fraternalism: Fur Trade Masculinity and the Beaver Club, 1785-1827." In New Faces in the Fur Trade: Selected Papers of the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference, edited by William C. Wicken, Jo-Anne Fiske and Susan Sleeper-Smith, 31-52. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 1998. 21 pp.
Re-printed in Race and Gender in the Northern Colonies, edited by Jan Noel. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2000.
6. "'I have embraced the White man's religion': Relations between the Peguis Band and the Church Missionary Society in the Red River Valley, 1820-1838." In Papers of the 26th Algonquian Conference, edited by David H. Pentland, 350-78. Winnipeg: Algonquian Conference, 1996. 28 pp.

Published Book, Exhibition, and Web Site Reviews
1. Nicole St.-Onge, Saint-Laurent, Manitoba: Evolving Métis Identities, 1850-1914 (Regina: Canadian Plains Research Centre, University of Regina, 2004) in Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française 59: 3 (hiver 2006), 377-9.
2. Undelivered Letters to Hudson’s Bay Company Men on the Northwest Coast of America, 1830-57, edited by Judith Hudson Beattie and Helen M. Buss (Vancouver: University British Columbia Press, 2003) in BC Studies 148 (Winter 2005/06): 129-30.
3. Jean-Claude Dubé, The Chevalier de Montmagny (1601-1657): First Governor of New France, translated by Elizabeth Rapley (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2005) in Choice Magazine (February 2006).
4. Internet Resource: France in America / La France en Amérique, Library of Congress and Bibliothèque nationale de France URL : http://international.loc.gov/intldl/fiahtml/ in Choice Magazine (January 2006).
5. Brendan Frederick R. Edwards, Paper Talk: A History of Libraries, Print Culture, and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada before 1960 (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005) in Papers/Cahiers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 43: 1 (Spring 2005), 68-9.
6. Rhoda R. Gilman, Henry Hastings Sibley: Divided Heart (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2004) in Choice Magazine (January 2005).
7. Laton McCartney, Across the Great Divide: Robert Stuart and the Discovery of the Oregon Trail (New York: Free Press, 2003) in Choice Magazine (March 2004).
8. Timothy J. Kent, Birchbark Canoes of the Fur Trade, 2 vols. (Ossineke:Silver Fox Enterprises, 1997) in Ontario History (Spring 2004).
9. “Mixing Disciplines in Fluid Environs: A Review of the Museum Exhibit ‘Shared Waters: Natives and French Newcomers in the Great Lakes.’” The Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies Newsletter, No. 14 (Spring 2003).
10. From Rupert's Land to Canada: Essays in Honour of John E. Foster, edited by Theodore Binnema, Gerhard Ens, and R. C. MacLeod (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2001) in Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française 56: 2 (fall 2002).
11. North of Athabasca: Slave Lake and Mackenzie River Documents of the North West Company, 1800-1821, edited by Lloyd Keith, (Montreal / Kingston: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2001) in Canadian Historical Review 83:3 (September 2002), 437-8.
12. Exhibition “Hudson’s Bay Company Gallery” at the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature, curated by Katherine Pettipas and designed by Gordon Filewych, in Muse, Canadian Museums Association/ Association des Musées Canadiens 18, no. 4 (2000), 16-19.
13. Talking on the Page: Editing Aboriginal Oral Texts, edited by Laura J. Murray and Keren Rice in The Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies Newsletter, No. 8, (Spring 2000).
14. The Fur Trade Revisited; Selected Papers of the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference, Mackinac Island, Michigan, 1991, edited by Jennifer S. H. Brown and others in Ontario History LXXXVII: 1, (Spring 1995): 213-15.

 

Non-Refereed Scholarly Articles, Reports, and Encyclopaedia Entries
1. Entry on “Fur Trade” in Encyclopaedia of the French Atlantic, edited by Bill Marshall. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2005.
2. Entries on “Canoe routes,” “Donnacona,” “pays d’en haut,” and “voyageurs” in Oxford Companion to Canadian History, edited by Gerald Hallowell. London: Oxford University Press, 2004.
3. Editor and major contributor, The Meeting Ground, newsletter of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History at the Newberry Library, nos. 41-45 (2001).
4. “The D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History: Conversations North and South.” The Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies Newsletter, No. 10, (Spring 2001).
5. Giovanni Pizzorusso and Carolyn Podruchny, “An Italian Saga: The Missing Journal of Tuscan Alfredo Dupouy’s Voyages as a Fur Trader in North-Western North America, 1822-23.” The Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies Newsletter, No. 9, (Autumn 2000).
6. “Travels and adventures among archival documents in the Société historique de Saint-Boniface.” The Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies Newsletter, No. 8, (Spring 2000).
7. "Joseph Constant's Journey to The Pas." The Pas Journal (Manitoban newspaper), 1997.

 

Media
1. Radio Panel on Bridging National Borders on KERA, “Think”, Dallas, TX, March 22, 2007.
2. Television Interview (French) on George-Antoine Belcourt’s French-Saulteaux Dictionary, Radio Canada, Winnipeg, MB, April 2004.
3. Radio Interview on George-Antoine Belcourt’s French-Saulteaux Dictionary, CBC Radio, “Radio Noon (Manitoba)”, Winnipeg, MB, April 2004.

 

 

PRESENTATIONS

 

Conference Presentations – Non-Refereed (* invited to speak)
1. May 2008. Thirteenth Rupert’s Land Colloquium. Rocky Mountain House, AB. “Mukwa Meets L’Ours: Exploring Bear Tales in Fur Trade Folklore.”
2. February 2008. European Social Science History Association, Lisbon, Portugal. "The Problem of Migration and Metis Ethnogensis: Exploring the Identities of Joseph Constant, Charles Racette, and Peter Erasmus."
3. May 2007. Canadian Historical Association 2005 Annual Meeting, Saskatoon, SK. Commentator for Panel “Aboriginal People Captured on Film and the Web.”*
4. May 2007. Fur Trade and Metis Days, jointly sponsored by the Canadian Historical Association and the Canadian Indigenous and Native Studies Association, Saskatoon, SK. “Mobile Communities and Mental Spaces in a River-Based World.”
5. March 2007. Bridging National Borders in North America Symposium, Part II, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Presented jointly with Bethel Saler. “‘Storied Landscapes and Glass Curtains’: The Fur Trade, National Borders, and Historians.”
6. September 2006. Bridging National Borders in North America Symposium, Part I, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC. Presented jointly with Bethel Saler. “‘Glass Curtains and Storied Landscapes’: The Fur Trade, National Borders, and Historians.”
7. May 2006. Ninth North American Fur Trade Conference and Twelfth Rupert's Land Colloquium, St. Louis, MO. Roundtable discussion: The Future of Fur Trade Studies and Conferences.*
8. May 2006. Ninth North American Fur Trade Conference and Twelfth Rupert's Land Colloquium, St. Louis, MO. Presented jointly with Roger Roulette, “Colliding Spirit Worlds: Belcourt's French-Anishinaabe Dictionary.”
9. May 2006. French Colonial Historical Society, Thirty-Second Congress, Dakar, Senegal. “The Long Journey of the Turtle Who Wanted to Fly: Oral Motifs and Cultural Exchange in the Fur Trade.”
10. 2005. Thirty-seventh Algonquian Conference, Ottawa, ON. Presented jointly with Roger Roulette, “Bear Tales: Exploring Ojibwe and French-Canadian Oral Communication in the Fur Trade.”
11. 2005. French Colonial Historical Society, Thirty-first Congress, Wolfville, NS. “Regulating Resistance: A Roman Catholic Priest Incites the Métis and Acadians, 1840s-1860s.”
12. 2005. Canadian History Association 2005 Annual Meeting, London, ON. Commentator for Panel “Collaborative Research in Aboriginal History on the Pacific Coast.”*
13. 2004. Cinquante-septième Congrés annuel, Institut d'histoire de l'Amérique français, Chicoutimi, QC. "Fuites miraculeuses dans la tradition orale canadienne-française des voyageurs : la chanson, l'histoire et la complainte gravée dans le bois de Jean Cadieux."
14. 2004. Canadian Historical Association 2004 Annual Conference, Winnipeg, MB. “Voyageurs too enjoy their carnival: French Canadian Servants, Dirty Tricks, and Bodily Pleasures.”
15. 2004. Eleventh Rupert’s Land Colloquium. Kenora, ON. Presented jointly with Graham MacFarlane, “The Long Journey of the Turtle Who Wanted to Fly: Oral Motifs and Cultural Exchange in the Fur Trade.”
16. 2004. Feminism and the Making of Canada: Historical Reflections. Montreal, QC. “Bear Tales: Voyageurs and Masculinity in the Montreal Fur Trade.”
17. 2003. Thirty-fifth Algonquian Conference. London, ON. “Putting Up Poles: Power, Navigation, and Cultural Mixing in the Fur Trade.”
18. 2003. Ninth Annual Conference of the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture. New Orleans, LA. “Miraculous Escapes in French-Canadian Voyageur Oral Tradition: Jean Cayeux’s Song, Story and Wood-Carved Lament.”
19. 2002. 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory. Quebec City, QC. Commentator for Panel “(Re)Appropriated Indian Voices.”*
20. 2002. 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory. Quebec City, QC, Canada, 2002. “Linguistic Encounters: A Nineteenth-Century French-Ojibwe Dictionary.”
21. 2002. Thirty-fourth Algonquian Conference. Kingston, ON. “Peopling Georges-Antoine Belcourt’s Unpublished Nineteenth-Century French-Ojibwe Dictionary: Surveying Terms of Ethnic and Group Identity.”
22. 2002. Tenth Rupert’s Land Colloquium. Oxford University, England. Presented jointly with Dr. Bethel Saler, “’Peering Through the Glass Curtain.’ Comparing Recent Trends in Fur Trade Historiography in Canada and the United States.”
23. 2002. Thirty-second Popular Culture Association and Twenty-fourth American Culture Association Annual Conference. Toronto, ON. “Songlines of Adventure and Adversity: French Canadian Voyageurs Traveling in 18th- and 19th-Century Northwestern Borderlands.”
24. 2001. 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory. Tuscon, AZ. “The Meaning of Cannibal Monsters.”
25. 2000. 2000 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory. London, ON. “Lords of the Lakes: Freemen in 18th and 19th-Century Rupert’s Land.”.
26. 2000. Sixth Annual Conference of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History. Toronto, ON. “Werewolves and Windigos: Narratives of Cannibalism and Mental Illness in Voyageur Oral Tradition, 1780-1820.”
27. 1999. Colloque en marge d’un millénaire vers un bilan missionaire. Organized by Western Canadian Publishers and the Société Historique de Saint Boniface. Winnipeg, MB. "Dieu, Diable and the Trickster: Voyageur Religious Syncretism in the Pays d'en haut, 1770-1821."*
28. 1998. Eighth Rupert's Land Colloquium. Winnipeg and Norway House, MB. "The Sexfiles: Towards an Understanding of Voyageur Sexuality, Part II: Cultural Hybridity, Trading Sex, Tender Ties and Fluid Monogamy."
29. 1998. Canadian Historical Association 1998Conference. Ottawa, ON. "The Sexfiles: Towards an Understanding of Voyageur Sexuality, Part I: The Bourgeois Gaze and the North American Don Juan."
30. 1997. Canadian Historical Association 1997 Annual Conference. St. John's, NF. "Baptizing Novices: Forming a Voyageur Identity in the Montreal Fur Trade."
31. 1996. Twenty-Eighth Algonquian Conference. Toronto, ON. “Shifting Identities and Constructing Communities: Joseph Constant’s Journey to The Pas, 1773 to 1853.”
32. 1996. Seventh Rupert's Land Colloquium. Whitehorse, YK. "Unfair Masters and Rascally Servants? Labour Relations Between Voyageurs and Bourgeois in the Montreal Fur Trade, 1770-1821."
33. 1995. Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference, Halifax, NS. “Festivities, Fortitude and Fraternalism: Fur Trade Masculinity and the Beaver Club, 1785-1827.”
34. 1994. Twenty-Sixth Algonquian Conference. Winnipeg, MB. "Diplomacy, Misunderstanding and Factionalism: Relations Between the Peguis Band and the Church Missionary Society, 1820-1838."
35. 1992. Forty-First Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers. Vancouver, BC. “Exploring Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Rupert’s Land: Samuel Hearne, John Franklin and George Back in the Barrens.”
36. 1991. Fourth Annual Manitoba History Conference. Winnipeg, MB. "'Farming the Frontier': Agriculture in the Fur Trade, A Case Study of the Provisional Farm at Lower Fort Garry, 1857-70."

 

Public Talks, Research Seminars, and Speakers’ Series (* invited to speak)
1. 2008. History Thursdays: Research and Reflections by Faculty Doing Historical Research at York. Speaker on panel (with Alan Durston and Keith Weiser), “History and Language.”
2. 2007. York Alumni Christmas By Lamplight Event, Black Creek Pioneer Village, “Victorian Christmas and Women in British North America.”*
3. 2007. Black Creek Pioneer Village, Metis Arts Festival, John A. McGinnis Heritage Lecture, “French Canadian Voyageurs in the Montreal –Based Fur Trade.”*
4. 2007. Montreal History Group: Jeudis d’histoire, Montreal, QC. "Politics, Dictionaries and Sex Scandals: How to Write the Biography of a Missionary."*
5. 2005. Friends of Grand Portage Annual Dinner, St. Paul, MN. “Telling Tales Along the Ottawa River: The Sad Story of French-Canadian Voyageur Jean Cadieux.”*
6. 2005. Toronto Area Early Canada and Colonial North America Seminar Series, Toronto, ON. “Putting Up Poles: Power, Navigation, and Cultural Mixing in the Fur Trade.”
7. 2004. Champlain – St. Lawrence Seminar in Early American Studies, State University of New York – Plattsburg, NY. “Miraculous Escapes in French-Canadian Voyageur Oral Tradition: Jean Cayeux’s Song, Story and Wood-Carved Lament.”*
8. 2004. Smithsonian Institute Study Tours, "Discover Quebec." Lectured on selected topics on the history of New France, Lower Canada, and the province of Quebec for educational tour groups in Quebec.
9. 2004. Historica Teachers’ Institute, Université de Montréal. “Cultural Encounters in the Montreal Fur Trade: The Case of French Canadian Voyageurs.”
10. 2003. American Studies Speakers’ Series, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. “Werewolves and Windigos: Oral Tradition in the Fur Trade.”*
11. 2003. History Department Research Colloquia, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB. “Miraculous Escapes in French-Canadian Voyageur Oral Tradition: Jean Cadieux’s Song, Story and Wood-Carved Lament.”
12. 2001. Fulbright Summer Institute, Rolling on the River: Waterways to Diversity in America, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. “Rivers and the Fur Trade.”*
13. 2001. The Newberry Library Colloquium, Chicago, IL. “Baptizing Novices: Ritual Moments and Social Geography Among French-Canadian Voyageurs Working in the Fur Trade, 1740s-1830s.”
14. 2001. Brown Bag Colloquium, D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History, The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL. “Windigos and Werewolves: Narratives of Cannibal Monsters Among Algonquians and French Canadians, 1720s – 1860s.”
15. 2001. The D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History Visiting Committee (of donors), The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL. “Algonquian Linguistics and Georges-Antoine Belcourt’s Nineteenth-Century French – Ojibwe Dictionary: A Workshop on Publishing Language Materials.”*
16. 2001. Indian - French Encounters in New France Colloquium, The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL. Panel Speaker, Commented on the film “Kenata: Legacy of the Children of Aataentsic,” directed by René Sioui-Labelle (1998).*
17. 2000. Winnipeg Fort Whyte Nature Centre Bison Discussion Series, Winnipeg, MB. “Real Men Eat Pemmican: Voyageurs, Bison and Masculinity.”*
18. 2000. Early Canada Research Group, Toronto, ON. “Classing Freemen: The Emergence of an Occupational Category in Eighteenth-Century Rupert’s Land.”
19. 2000. Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature Training Program for Volunteers, Winnipeg, MB. Conducted workshop “The Culture of French Canadian Voyageurs in the Montreal Fur Trade.”*
20. 2000. Primo Seminario Annuale di Storia Atlantica, course in Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, co-sponsored by the Centro di Ricerca in Studi Canadesi e Colombiani and the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Genova, Italia. “The Fur Trade in North-Western North America from Amerindian Perspectives, 1660-1820.”*
21. 2000. Women and History Association of Manitoba Workshop, Winnipeg, MB. “Doing It in a Canoe: Algonquian Women, Euro-American Men and Sexuality in the Montreal Fur Trade, 1770-1821.”
22. 1999. Women and History Association of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB. “Pork Men, North Men, Ladies’ Men and Free Men: Masculinities and Voyageurs in 18th-Century Rupert’s Land.”
23. 1999. Sources and Methodologies in Comparative Perspective Discussion Series, History Department, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. “Four Ways to See Through the Bourgeois Gaze in Fur Trade Documents.” Presented as Part of a Panel “Native-European Relations.”
24. 1998. University of Toronto Early Modern European Study Group, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. "'Othering' the New World: Strategies for Understanding Early Modern History." Presented as part of a Panel "Concepts of ‘the Other’ in Early Modern Studies: Useful or Not?"
25. 1997. Early Canada Research Group, Toronto, ON. “Ritual, Play and Sociability Among Voyageurs in the Montreal Fur Trade.”
26. 1995. Early Canada Research Group, Toronto, ON. "Festivities, Fortitude and Fraternalism: Fur Trade Masculinity and the Beaver Club, 1785-1827."

 

RESEARCH SUPPORT

 

Research Agency Grants, Fellowships and Scholarships
2007-10 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Aboriginal Research Grant, “Patterns of Genesis: Identity, Culture, Communication and Mobility in the Emergence of Northwest Metis Populations,” co-applicants Nicole St.-Onge (P.I.), Heather Devine, and Brenda Macdougall.
2004 Canadian Embassy in the United States, Canadian Studies Faculty Research Grant, $5,000.
2003-06 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant, “Linguistic Encounters: A Case Study of Roman Catholic Missionary Georges-Antoine Belcourt’s Unpublished Nineteenth-Century French-Ojibwe Dictionary,” administered by the University of Winnipeg.
2002 American Philosophical Society Residential Fellowship, Philadelphia.
1999 International Council of Canadian Studies Internship Grant, Università di Genova (Italia).
1999-2001 Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Winnipeg, 1999-2001. Declined last 8 months.
1996-97 Imperial Order of Daughters of the Empire War Memorial Doctoral Scholarship, University of Toronto.
1993-96 Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship, University of Toronto.
1992-93 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, University of Toronto.

 

Grants and Scholarships from Universities
2008 Faculty of Arts Research Grant, York University.
2006 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Conference Travel Grant, Office of Research Services, York University.
2003 Arts and Sciences Faculty Teaching and Research Award, Western Michigan University.
2002 Burnham – MacMillan Endowment Committee, History Department, Western Michigan University.
2001 Faculty Research and Creative Activities Support Fund, Western Michigan University.
1996 Margaret S. McCullough Scholarship, University of Toronto.
1991 Simcoe Fellowship, University of Toronto.

 

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROFESSION

Grants for Institutions
2007 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences for “Disease in Global Environmental History,” a conference organized by the History Department, York University.
2007 York University Ad Hoc Grant for “Disease in Global Environmental History,” a conference organized by the History Department, York University.
2001 Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowships Grant for Residential Fellowships in American Indian Studies, administered 2002-5, long- and short-term fellowships at the Newberry Library, co-authored with James Grossman, vice-president of research and education at the Newberry Library.

Conference Organization
2008 Member of Program Committee, Thirteenth Rupert’s Land Colloquium, Rocky Mountain House, AB.
2006-07 Principal Organizer for the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Thirty-ninth Algonquian Conference, York University, October 2007.
2006-07 Member of Organizing Committee for the conference Disease in Global Environmental History, History Department, York University, March 2007.
2006-07 Member of Organizing Committee for conference “Fur Trade and Metis Days,” co-sponsored by the Canadian Historical Association and the Canadian Indigenous and Native Studies Association, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, May 2006.
2005-06 Member of Program Committee and Local Arrangements Committee, Canadian Historical Association 2006 Annual Meeting, York University, Toronto, ON.
2003 Member of Coordinating Committee, Eleventh Rupert’s Land Colloquium, Kenora, ON.
2001 Member of Coordinating Committee, Indian – French Encounters in New France Colloquium, The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL.
2000 Fund-raiser, Ninth Rupert’s Land Colloquium, Vancouver, WA.
2000 Member of the Coordinating Committee, Colonial Saints: Hagiography and the Cult of Saints in the Americas, 1500-1800, Toronto, ON.

 

Offices in Professional Organizations
2007-08 Secretary, American Society for Ethnohistory
2004-07 Secretary-Treasurer, American Society for Ethnohistory
2006- Member of the Advisory Council, Centre for Rupert's Land Studies
2005- Publications Committee, The Champlain Society
2004- Council Member, The Champlain Society
2001 Member of the President’s Advisory Council, The Newberry Library
1999-2001 Member of the Development Committee, Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies
1999 - 2001 Member of the Advisory Council, Centre for Rupert's Land Studies
1999 – 2001 Member of the Advisory Board, Omushkegowak Oral History Project

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

Undergraduate Course Director
1. The European Impact on the North American Environment, HIST 1035, History Department, York University, lecturing a discussion, explores 4 regions – New England, Great Lakes, New Spain, and Rupert’s Land – from contact until 1800. Taught once, 2004-05.
2. Guns, Germs, and Steel: An Introduction to the Methods and Theories of History, HIS 190, History Department, Western Michigan University, required course for History Majors and minors. Taught once, 2004.
3. Natives and Newcomers: An Introduction to Ethnohistory, 29. 1010/ 6, History Department, University of Winnipeg, a 1st-year course on academic skills, historical methodology, and case studies of Aboriginal history. Taught first half once, 2000.
4. Introduction to American Studies, AMS 200, Program in American Studies, Western Michigan University, an introductory course exploring ethnicities in the United States. Taught six times, 2001-2004.
5. Canada Before 1900: Cultural History, HIST 3550, History Department, York University, lecturing and discussion, exploring the topics of communication, landscape, material goods, rituals, food, and ethnicity. Taught twice. 2004-05, 2006-07.
6. History of Canada, HIS 330, History Department, Western Michigan University, lecturing and seminar, focusing on using primary documents, the role of geography and ethnic diversity in shaping Canadian history. Taught once, 2002.
7. Native American History and Culture, HIS 326, History Department, Western Michigan University, lecturing and seminar. Taught once, 2004.
8. New France, 1550s-1760, HIS362S, History Department, University of Toronto, third-year lecture and seminar course exploring the history of French colonies in North America, focusing on Aboriginal-nonaboriginal relations, the colonial project, and social history. Taught once, 1999.
9. Cultures and Colonialism: Canada 1600-1900, HIST 4508, History Department, York University, seminar on cultural encounters between First Nations people and European newcomers. Taught four times, 2004-08.
10. Colonial America, HIS 420, History Department, Western Michigan University, senior level lecturing and seminar, focusing on New France, New England, and New Spain. Taught once, 2001.

Graduate Course Director
1. Social History Workshop: Oral History, HIST 5580, History Department, York University. Taught once, fall 2006.
2. Aboriginal History in North American Before 1900, HIST 5190, History Department, York University. Taught once, fall 2007.
3. Reading Primary Sources in the Fur Trade, Independent study, MA level, History Department, York University. Taught once, fall 2006.
4. Oral History: Theories, Methods and Forms of Oral Expression, HIS 642, History Department, Western Michigan University. Graduate Seminar surveying the field. Taught once, 2003.
5. Ojibwe History and Religion, CR 710, Department of Religious Studies, Western Michigan University. Graduate Seminar that surveyed the literature in this field. Taught once, 2001.
8. The Ethnohistory of the Fur Trade, HIS 605, History Department, Western Michigan University. Graduate Seminar surveying the historiography of the fur trade, including oral history, material culture, archaeological, and anthropological methods. Taught once, 2003.

Participated in Team-Taught Graduate Course
1. The French in North America, HIST 5133, History Department, York University. Participated once, 2005-06.
2. Selected Topics in History of the United States, HIST 6020, History Department, York University. Participated thrice, 2005-07.
3. Canadian History Field Seminar, HIST 6030, History Department, York University. Participated once, 2007.
4. Natives and Newcomers in North America, HIST 6000, Independent Study, History Department, York University. Participated once, 2006.
5. Women, Gender and Sexualities Field Course, HIST 6003, History Department, York University. Participated once, 2007.

 

C.V. updated 5 August 2008