CURRICULUM VITAE
ANDREW CARL HOLMAN
Professor of History
Editor, Bridgewater
Review
112 Hunt Hall
Bridgewater, Massachusetts USA 02325
tel. (508) 531-2688 email:
a2holman@bridgew.edu
http://webhost.bridgew.edu/a2holman/index.htm
http://works.bepress.com/andrew_c_holman/
Areas
of Specialization: Canadian
History, United States History
Sport
History, Borderlands Studies
1995 Ph.D. in History,
1989 M.A. in History, McMaster
University, Hamilton, Ontario.
1986 B.A. (Hons) History/Political
Science, McGill University, Montreal, QC.
Canada’s
Game: Hockey and Identity (edited essay collection) (McGill-Queen’s
University Press, 2009).
A Sense of Their Duty:
Middle-Class Formation in Victorian Ontario Towns
(McGill- Queen’s University Press, 2000).
“Sport and Identities in Quebec” in Stéphan Gervais, Christopher Kirkey, and Jarrett Rudy, eds, Quebec
Questions: Quebec Studies for the Twenty-first Century. 2nd
edition (Oxford University Press) [forthcoming, Spring 2016].
“Les
Russes et Nous: The
1972 Summit Series and the Birth of Hockey Sovereignty in Quebec” in Brian
Kennedy, ed. Coming Down the Mountain: The Summit Series (Hamilton, ON: Wolsak & Wynn, 2014)
109-25.
“Una bandera de tendones: el hockey sobre hielo y la historia de Canadá”
[“A Flag of Tendons: Hockey and
Canadian History”] ISTOR: Revista de
Historia Internacional [Special Issue on Canada] XIII, 49 (July 2012)
61-89.
“Frank Merriwell on
Skates: Heroes, Villains, Canadians and Other
Others in American Juvenile Sporting Fiction, 1890-1940” in Jamie Dopp and
Richard Harrison, eds Now is the Winter: Thinking about Hockey
(Hamilton, ON: Wolsak & Wynn, 2009) 53-67.
“Periodizing Hockey
History: One Approach” (with Stephen Hardy) in Jamie Dopp and Richard Harrison,
eds Now is the Winter: Thinking about Hockey (Hamilton, ON: Wolsak &
Wynn, 2009) 19-35.
“Literary and Popular
Culture” (with Robert Thacker) in Patrick James and Mark Kasoff, eds, Canadian
Studies in the New Millenium (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007)
125-64; revised 2nd edition (2013).
_____. Excerpted in Konrad
Gross and Jutta Zimmermann, eds., Canadian Literatures. Postcolonial
Literatures in English. Sources and Resources 4 (Trier: WVT
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2012) 72-73.
“The Canadian Hockey Player Problem: Cultural Reckoning and National Identities in American Collegiate Sport, 1947-80” Canadian Historical Review 88, 3 (September 2007) 439-68.
“Stops and Starts: Ideology, Commercialism and the Fall
of American Women’s Hockey in the 1920s” Journal of Sport History 32, 3
(Fall 2005) 328-50.
“Playing in the Neutral Zone: Meanings and Uses of Ice
Hockey in the Canada-U.S. Borderlands, 1895-1915” American Review of
Canadian Studies 34, 1 (Spring 2004) 33-57.
“‘Something to Admire’: Cultural Nationalism, Symbolic Dissonance, and the Fourth of July in
New England’s Canadian Borderlands, 1840-1870” in Peter Benes, ed. New
England Celebrates: Spectacle, Commemoration, and Festivity (
“‘Cultivation’
and the Middle-Class Self: Manners and Morals in Victorian Ontario” in Edgar-André Montigny and Lori
Chambers, eds. Ontario since Confederation: A Reader (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000)
105-25.
“‘Different
Feelings’: Corktown and the Catholic Irish in Early Hamilton, 1832-1847” Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 23, 1
(July 1997) 41-66.
“‘Cultivation’ and the Middle-Class Self in Nineteenth
Century America” Review Essay. Canadian
Review of American Studies 23, 2 (Winter, 1993) 183-93.
“Thomas J. Jackson and the Idea of Health: A New
Approach to the Social History of Medicine” Civil War History XXXVIII, 2
(June, 1992) 131-55.
“Cities and Immigrants: A Canadian Perspective” Review
Essay. Journal of Urban History
18, 4 (August, 1992) 489-97.
Hockey: A Canadian History in Documents. Edited and annotated
document collection with introductory essay. Under contract with The Champlain
Society.
The Same, but Different: Hockey in Quebec. Essay collection
co-edited by Jason Blake and A.C. Holman (edits submitted to University of
Toronto Press, December 2014).
The Coolest Game: A
History of Ice Hockey
(with Stephen Hardy). Book manuscript under contract with University of
Illinois Press.
“Where
have you Gone, Jack Lorimer? New England’s Moment in Juvenile Sporting Fiction”
29, II (June 2011) 7-10.
“Teaching
Note. Then and Now: Canadian and American Students Discover Each Other” 29, I
(December 2010) 24-27.
“A
Not-too-distant Mirror: The Talcott Commission (1840-43) and the Meaning of the
Border” 29, I (June 2010) 19-21.
“Crisis? What Crisis? Global Recession and
Learning at Bridgewater State College” 28, II (December 2009) 21-22.
“Our Wings: Aviation Science and College
Learning” 28, 1 (June 2009) 23-25.
“‘Absolutely
part of what we should be doing’: Kevin Curry, Water Filters and the
International Mission of the Modern University” 27, 2 (December 2008) 24-27.
“Climate
Change and Culture: Some Thoughts on the Precarious Idea of North” 26, 2 (December 2007) 22-23.
“Who
We Are: Some Thoughts about Making and Remaking History at Bridgewater State
College” 25, 2 (December 2006) 28-30.
“Teaching and Learning in Cold Places: Ice Hockey at
Bridgewater State College” 23, 1 (June 2004) 3-6.
“Happy Birthday Canada? Reflections on 130 Years of
Nationhood” 16, 1 (1997) 7-10.
“Curing Hockey’s Ills: Sir
Henry Gray’s Address to the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association, March 1933”
in Findings/Trouvailles (annotated document feature on The Champlain
Society website). January 2016. http://www.champlainsociety.ca/curing-hockeys-ills-sir-henry-grays-address-to-the-montreal-amateur-athletic-association-march-1933/.
“Hockey Towns: The Making of
Special Places in America and Canada” (with Stephen
Hardy) in
Putting it on Ice: Proceedings of the 2012 Hockey
Conference, eds. Lori
Dithurbide and Colin Howell (December 2013). Available at http://www.smu.ca/campus-life/putting-it-on-ice-proceedings.html.
“Rinkside:
New Scholarly Studies on Ice Hockey and Society” (with Julie Stevens)
Introduction to Special Edition of Sport in Society 16, 3 (April 2013)
1-3.
“One
Game, Two Countries,” commentary, ACSUS e-dition newsletter, 6 May 2009,
(Association for Canadian Studies in the U.S).
“On the Origin of Species (with apologies to
Charles Darwin): Canadian Football,” Sport
Canada column, Teaching Canada 24 (2006) 45-47.
“Introduction. Hockey and
Special Edition of Sport
“Something Old,
Something New: Canada and the American Civil War.” Review Essay. Acadiensis
XXXI, 1 (Autumn 2001) 164-70.
“Gentlemen,
Irregulars, and Eclectics: Who Practised Medicine in Nineteenth-
“Examining
Assumptions,” MANECCS News & Views. Newsletter of the Middle Atlantic and New England Council for
Canadian Studies. (July/Aug 1999) 5-6.
“The
Quebec/Canada Relationship: 1867-1997,” in Richard Beach, ed. Alliance or Alienation? Quebec and Canada as the
Century Turns (Plattsburgh, NY: Center for
the Study of Canada, SUNY Plattsburgh, 1999) 37-41.
“Happy
Birthday Canada? Reflections on 130
Years of Nationhood,” Teaching
“Happy
Birthday Canada? Reflections on 130
Years of Nationhood,” Occasional Papers (Center
for the Study of Canada, SUNY Plattsburgh) September, 1997.
“Fear and Loathing North of the Border,” MANECCS
News & Views (Newsletter of the Mid-Atlantic
and Northeast Conference on Canadian Studies) July, 1997: 1,6.
“‘I Don’t Feel So Well To-Day as Usual’: Was
Stonewall a Hypochondriac?” Civil War 56
(April, 1996) 42-49.
A. Ricardo López and Barbara Weinstein, eds, The Making of the
Middle Class: Toward a Transnational History (Durham, NC: Duke University
Press, 2012) Labour/Le Travail 73 (Spring 2014) 401-3.
David Meren, With Friends Like These: Entangled Nationalism and the Canada-Quebec-France Triangle, 1944-1970 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2012) H-Diplo Roundtable Review XV, 17 (2013) 9-12. Stable URL:
http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables/PDF/Roundtable-XV-17.pdf
Geoffrey Hayes, Canada: An Illustrated History
(Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2008) Canadian Historical Review 90,
3 (September 2009) 537-39.
Timothy R. Mahoney, Provincial Lives: Middle Experience
in the Antebellum
Francis M. Carroll, A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for
the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842 (
George
M. Blackburn, French Newspaper Opinion on the American Civil War (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997) American
Journalism 16, 2 (Spring 1999) 113-114.
Janice Dickin McGinnis, ed. Suitable for the Wilds:
Letters From Northern Alberta, 1929-1931 by Dr.
John
C. Weaver, Crimes, Constables, and Courts: Order and Transgression in a
Jacalyn Duffin, Langstaff: A Nineteenth Century Medical
Life (
Bruce Curtis, True Government By Choice Men? Inspection,
Education, and State Formation in Canada
West (Toronto, 1992) Canadian Social Studies 28, 3 (Spring, 1994)
123-24.
Allan
Greer and Ian Radforth, eds. Colonial Leviathan: State Formation in Mid- Nineteenth-Century
Allen Stouffer, The Light of Nature and the Law of God:
Antislavery in
Pierre Berton,
Niagara: A
Marianne Maclean, The People of Glengarry: Highlanders
in Transition, 1745-1820 (Montreal and Kingston, 1991)
Sheldon and Judith Godfrey, Burn This Gossip: The True Story of George Benjamin of
Belleville, Canada’s First Jewish Member of Parliament, 1857-1863 (Toronto,
1991) Ontario
J.K. Johnson, Becoming Prominent: Regional Leadership in
Brian C. Mitchell, The Paddy Camps: The Irish of
“War and Rhetoric in the
Anglo-American World” (Speaking Intensive)
“Writing Canada” (Writing
Intensive)
“Canada’s War of 1812”
“Northern Borderlands: A New Approach to
Canadian-American Relations” (Seminar)
“Economic
& Social History of Victorian Canada” (Graduate)
“Quebec
and Canada since Confederation,”
“Historiography
of Modern Quebec,” Reading Course
“War
and Memory in Canada”
“A
History of Canadian-American Relations”
“Canadian
History since Confederation”
“Canadian
History before Confederation”
“Canada,
1800 to 1867,” Brock University
“Origins:
Canada to 1800,” Brock University
“
“Modern
“The
History of
“Introduction
to Canadian Studies”
“Sport
and Canadian Identities” Seminar, McGill University (Fall 2011)
“Sport
and the North American Imagination, 1850-1960”
“United
States History and Constitutions to 1865”
“United
States History and Constitutions since 1865”
“The
Northeast in the Old Republic (c.1780-1850),” Brock University
“Medicine
& Society in the North Atlantic World, 1700-1920”
“Health,
Sexuality, and Society in the North Atlantic World: the United States, Canada, and Britain, 1700-1929,” Graduate Course
“The Historian’s Craft; or, the Art and Philosophy of
Historical Detection” (Honors)
“The Philosophy of History: Uses and Misuses of History,” Graduate Seminar
“City
Life: History and Politics of Urban North America,” (with Dr. Victor DeSantis, Department of Political Science) Graduate
Course
“Ordinary
People in a Changing World: Europe and the
taught),
1998 Jane Hogan, “Strangers in a Strange Land:
The Acadian Experience in Massachusetts, 1755-1764,” Department of History,
Bridgewater State University.
2010 Rachel Mansfield, “Drama and the Peaceable
Kingdom: Adaptation and Cultural Identity in a ‘Just Society’,” Department of
Drama, Tufts University.
June 2015 Summer Research Grant,
Center for the Advancement of Research and Scholarship, Bridgewater State
University (US$3,100 in support of the research and writing of a scholarly
essay: “Reading Frank Grace’s Record”).
Summer 2014 Summer Course Grant, Office
of Teaching and Learning, Bridgewater State University (US $3,000 in support of
HIST 488 “Eight Days that Made Modern Canada”).
June 2013 Summer Research Grant,
Center for the Advancement of Research and Scholarship, Bridgewater State
University (US$3,100 in support of the research and writing of a scholarly
essay: “Les Russes et Nous”).
June 2012 Summer Research Grant, Center
for the Advancement of Research and Scholarship, Bridgewater State University
(US$3,100 in support of the research and writing of a scholarly essay: “Rewriting
the War of 1812: Constructing Nation in Boys’ Serial Fiction, 1860-1940”).
Fall 2011 Sabbatical Fellowship.
Eakin Visiting Fellowship in Canadian Studies, McGill Institute for the Study
of Canada, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
July 2011 Summer Research Grant,
Center for the Advancement of Research and Teaching, Bridgewater State College
(US$3,100 in support of the research and writing of a scholarly essay: “A Flag
of Tendons”).
June 2010 Summer Research Grant,
Center for the Advancement of Research and Teaching, Bridgewater State College
(US$3,100 in support of the research and writing a book chapter: “Heirs to Tom Brown’s School Days: Ralph Henry
Barbour, Arthur Stanwood Pier and the Elite School Hockey Story before World
War I”).
June
2009 Summer Research
Grant, Center for the Advancement of Research and Teaching, Bridgewater State
College (US$3,100 in support of the research and writing a scholarly article: “Telling Stories about Indigeneity and Canadian Sport: The Spectacular
Cree & Ojibway Indian Hockey Barnstorming Tour of North America, 1928”).
June 2008 Summer
Research Grant, Center for the Advancement of Research and Teaching,
Bridgewater State College (US$3,100 in support of the completion of a book
chapter: “Hockey Despite Hitler: World
War II and the Challenge to Hockey’s Global Divergence”).
March 2007 Faculty
and Librarian Research Grant, Center for the Advancement of Research and
Teaching, Bridgewater State College (US$8,000 in support of
research and writing a scholarly article: “Heroes, Villains and Canucks: Constructing Canadian
‘Otherness’ in American Juvenile Sporting Fiction, 1890-1940”).
November 2006 Distinguished
Scholar-in-Residence, Center for the Study of
January 2006 Canadian
Studies Faculty Enrichment Grant, Academic Relations Office, Canadian
Embassy,
December 2003 Canadian
Studies Faculty Enrichment Grant, Academic Relations Office, Canadian
Embassy, Washington, DC (US$6,000 in support for the preparation of an article
manuscript: “Taking measure of each
other: Students, Women and Popular Diplomacy in Canada and the United States,
1940-71”).
July 2003 Summer
Research Grant, Center for the Advancement of Research and Teaching,
Bridgewater State College (US$3,000 in support of the completion of an article
manuscript: “‘The Canadian Hockey Player
Problem’: Crossing Boundaries in U.S. College Athletics, 1947-75”).
July 2002 Summer
Research Grant, Center for the Advancement of Research and Teaching,
Bridgewater State College (US$3,000 in support of the completion of an article
manuscript: “Sharing the Fête Nationale:
St-Jean Baptiste Day in the Quebec-New England Borderlands, 1840-1920”).
June 2001 Quebec
Studies Research Grant, Ministry of International Relations, Government of
Quebec, Quebec City, Canada (US$4,259 US in support of the preparation of an
article manuscript: “Sharing Fêtes
Nationales: The Fourth of July and St-Jean Baptiste Day in the Québec-New England
Borderlands, 1837-1919”).
January 2001 Canadian
Studies Faculty Enrichment Grant, Academic Relations Office, Canadian
Embassy, Washington, DC (US$3,500 in support of the preparation of an
upper-level undergraduate/graduate course: “Northern
Borderlands: Studies in the
November 2000 Massachusetts
Council for International Education (MaCIE) Lecturer, Spring Term, 2001
(US$800 for the delivery of invited lectures at Westfield State College and
North Adams State College: “On the
Threshold of another Nation – Canadian-American Borderlands in Historical
Perspective”).
April 2000 Faculty
and Librarian Research Grant, Bridgewater State College (US$3,000 in
support of editorial work for a scholarly anthology: In the Borderlands: New
Essays in the Social
December
1999 Canadian Studies Research
Grant, Canadian Embassy,
November 1998 Small
Grant, Center for the Advancement of Research and Teaching,
August 1998 Andrew
W. Mellon Research Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond,
November
1997 Canadian Studies Research
Grant, Canadian Embassy,
July 1997 Andrew
W. Mellon Research Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond,
July 1997 Summer
Research Grant, Center for the Advancement of Research and Teaching,
Bridgewater State College (US$3,000 to support preliminary editing and
annotation of diary manuscript: More of a
Man. The Diaries of Andrew McIlwraith,
June 1996 Andrew
W. Mellon Research Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond,
1995-96 Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of
Post
Doctoral Fellowship, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON (Project title: “Medicine in Comparison: Physicians and
their Patients in Rockbridge County, Virginia and Waterloo County, Ontario,
1840-1891”).
1993-94
Queen Elizabeth II
Ontario Scholarship.
1992-93 Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of
Doctoral
Fellowship.
1991-92 Ontario Graduate
Scholarship.
Summer 1990 Stonewall
Jackson House Research Fellowship - The
1987-88 H.G. Hilton Scholarship,
McMaster University.
“Canadian Students and Transnational Experiences of Education at
Bridgewater Normal School, 1858-1919” From Normal School to Now: Arc of Teacher
Education Conference, Bridgewater State University, March 26, 2015.
“Frank Grace’s
Record: Lacrosse and Identity in
Early Twentieth-century Canada” Transnational Lacrosse Conference, Centre for
the Study of Sport and Health, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS, October
2-4, 2014.
_____. Middle
Atlantic and New England Council for Canadian Studies biennial conference,
Niagara Falls, ON, September 26, 2014.
Participant,
Roundtable on Teaching Canada, Association for Canadian Studies in the
U.S. biennial conference, Tampa, FL, November, 2013.
“Sport and the Practice of Public
Paradiplomacy: Québec” at “Canada Abroad” conference hosted by the Bader
International Study Centre (Queen’s University), Herstmonceux Castle, East
Sussex, UK, 30 July 2013.
“Framing
Canada, Framing Canadian Sport History,” Panel Presentation, “The Canadian Sesquicentennial Sport History
Project” North American Society for Sport History 41st Annual
Convention, Halifax, NS, May 26, 2013.
Participant,
Author’s Workshop, “Quebec & the World: Foundations, Regions, Actors &
Issues” Montreal, QC, November 15-17, 2012.
“Sport,
Catholic Charity and Masculine Civic Performance before the Quiet Revolution:
Montreal’s Depression Hockey League, 1932-60s” American Council for Quebec
Studies biennial conference, Sarasota, FL, November 9, 2012.
“Five
Things We All Need to Know about the War of 1812” Keynote Address, New
Hampshire Council for Social Studies, Manchester, NH, October 25, 2012.
“Ever
Since: The War of 1812 in Canadian Popular Culture” New England History
Teachers Association Conference, Worcester, MA October 13, 2012.
“Rewriting
the War of 1812: Constructing Nation in Boys’ Serial Fiction, 1860-1940,”
Middle Atlantic and New England Council for Canadian Studies biennial
conference, Philadelphia, PA, September 28, 2012.
“Tracing
the History of Canadian Emigration to the United States.” Invited Public
Lecture. South Shore Genealogical Society, Hanover, MA, June 9, 2012.
“Reading
Backwards: The War of 1812 and ‘Canada’ in American Boys’ Serial Fiction,
1870s-1940,” Popular Culture Association of Canada annual conference, Niagara
Falls, ON, 11 May 2012.
“Rewriting the War of 1812: Constructing
Nation in Boys’ Serial Fiction, 1860-1940,” Popular Culture
Association/American Culture Association annual conference, Boston, MA, 11
April 2012.
“They
Came from Canada: Star-spangled Canadians.” Invited public lecture at the
National Archives at Boston, Waltham, MA, 16 February 2012.
“Reading
Canada in American Juvenile Fiction, 1890-1940,” Annual Eakin Lecture in
Canadian Studies, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, McGill University,
Montreal, Quebec, 24 November 2011.
“Reading
the Canadian-American Borderlands in American Juvenile Fiction, 1900-30”
Canadian Historical Association Conference, Fredericton, NB, May 31, 2011.
“Orioles
and Indians: Race, Agency and Exploitation in Historical Hockey Narratives”
(with Greg Gillespie, Brock University), Hockey on the Border International
Scholarly Conference, Buffalo, NY, June 5, 2010.
“Telling Stories about Indigeneity and
Canadian Sport: The Cree and Ojibway Indian Hockey Tour of 1928” When Indians Play Indian Native American
Symposium,
“Daniel
Webster’s Canadian Conundrums” Daniel Webster Preservation Heritage Trust, Daniel Webster Estate,
“Telling
Stories about Indigeneity and Canadian Sport: The Cree and Ojibway Indian
Hockey Tour of 1928” Sport Literature Association conference, University of
Western Ontario, London, Ontario, June 24, 2009.
“The
Canadian-American Relationship since 1945,” Presentation to Panel Discussion
called “Continental Engagement: U.S.-Canada Relationships, 1609 to Present,”
The 30th Conference on New York State History (New York State
Historical Association), SUNY Plattsburgh, June 4-6, 2009.
“The Cree and Ojibway Indian Hockey Tour of
1928: Sport, Spectacle and Canadian-American Relations” Middle Atlantic and New
England Council for Canadian Studies/ Southern Association for Canadian Studies
joint conference, Washington DC, October 2008.
“Is
Hockey Still Canada’s Game?” Java Fridays
Invited Lecture, The 1699 Isaac Winslow House,
“The
Diaries of Andrew McIlwraith: Work, Self-Improvement and Refuge in the Life of
a Mid-Victorian Scottish Emigrant in Canada” Canada as a Refuge conference,
Centre of Canadian Studies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, May 1-2, 2008.
“Prose
and Conn Smythe; or, Teaching American Freshmen to Write using Ice Hockey and
Canadian History” Association for Canadian Studies in the U.S. biennial
conference, Toronto, Canada, November, 2007.
“Hockey
Shtick: Heroes, Villains, Canadians and Other Others in American Juvenile
Sporting Fiction, 1890-1940” Popular Cultural Association/American Culture
Association 2007 Joint Conference,
“Frank
Merriwell on Skates: Images of
“Periodizing
Hockey
“Frank
Merriwell on Skates: Images of
“‘A
Quietly Excellent Piece of International Goodwill’: The Canadian-American
Women’s Committee, Popular Diplomacy
and Canadian-American Relations, 1941-67” Association for Canadian Studies in
the U.S. biennial meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, November 2005.
“Remarks on the Teaching
of Acadian
“
“An
Overview of the Canadian Government Structure and Canada’s Relationship with
the United States.” Canada-Maine Forum
for State Legislators, Augusta Civic Center.
Spoke at the invitation of the Office of the Canadian Consul General,
“‘A
Quietly Excellent Piece of International Goodwill’: The Canadian-American
Women’s Committee, Popular Diplomacy
and Canadian-American Relations, 1941-67” Organization for the
“‘A
Quietly Excellent Piece of International Goodwill’: The Canadian-American
Women’s Committee, Popular Diplomacy
and Canadian-American Relations, 1941-67”
Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland Biennial Conference,
University College Cork, Ireland, April 29-May 1, 2004.
“Sporting
Heroes, American Influence and the Canadian Identity: Some Thoughts”
Association for Canadian Studies Conference, “Achievement and Legacy: Sports in
“The
Canadian Hockey Player Problem: Constructing National Identities in
“Stops
and Starts: Ideology, Commercialism and the Fall of American Women’s Hockey in
the 1920s” Women’s Hockey: Gender Issues On and Off the Ice Conference, St.
Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, March 26-29, 2004.
“The
Canadian Hockey Player Problem: Crossing Boundaries in
“Crossing
Boundaries: Performing St-Jean Baptiste
Day in
“Sharing the Fête
Nationale: St-Jean Baptiste Day in Quebec’s New England
Borderlands, 1870-1900” British Association for Canadian Studies Annual
Conference, Leeds, UK, April, 2003.
“Sharing the Fête
Nationale: St-Jean Baptiste Day in Quebec’s New England
Borderlands, 1870-1900” Northeast Popular Culture Association, 25th
Annual Conference, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH, November 9, 2002.
“Mind
your Manners! Cultivation, Morals and
Respectability in Victorian Goderich” Invited Lecture.
“The Canadian Hockey
Player Problem”: Crossing Boundaries in
“Studying
the Middle Class in Urban and Urbanizing Canada: Middle-class Character and the
Language of Canadian Nationhood” Urban History Association, First Biennial
Urban History Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, September 28, 2002.
“Playing
Offside: Meanings and Uses of Ice Hockey in the Canadian-American Borderlands,
1895-1915” Association for Canadian Studies in the U.S., Biennial Conference,
San Antonio, TX, November, 2001.
“The
Fourth of July in Eastern Canada, 1837-1870: A Study in North American
Borderlands History” Invited Lecture, History Department Symposium, University
of
“Playing
in the Neutral Zone: Meanings and Uses of Ice Hockey in the Canadian-American
Borderlands, 1895-1915” Putting It on Ice: Hockey in Historical and
Contemporary Perspective Conference,
“The
Fourth of July in Early Eastern Canada: Negotiating Identity in the
Anglo-American Borderlands, 1837-1870” Canadian Historical Association Annual
Conference,
“Teaching Borderlands History” Panel Participant,
Mid-Atlantic and New England Council for Canadian Studies Biennial Conference,
“The Fourth of July in Early Eastern Canada: Negotiating
Identity in the Anglo-American Borderlands, 1837-1870” Eighth Biennial Maple
Leaf and Eagle North American Studies Conference,
“Mapping Themselves: Cultural Nationalism and the
Northeast Boundary, 1840-43” Association for Canadian Studies in the U.S.,
Pittsburgh, PA, November 1999.
“Here
and There: Work, Liminality, and Place in a Victorian Diarist’s Canada West and
New York” American Studies Association - Canadian Association of American Studies Joint Annual Meeting, Montreal,
Quebec, October 1999.
“A
Border of the Mind: Andrew Talcott and the Mapping of the Northeast Boundary, 1840-43” Canadian Historical Association Annual
Meeting,
“Hypochondriac?
Eccentric? or Man of the Times? Another Look at Stonewall Jackson” Cape Cod
Civil War Roundtable, Sandwich, MA,
“‘In Tollerbel Helth’; or, How Ordinary People Viewed
Sickness and Wellness in 19th-Century Virginia,” Faculty Research Symposium, Center
for the Advancement of Research and Teaching, Bridgewater State College, March
24, 1998.
“The
White-Collar Worlds of Andrew McIlwraith: Work, Masculinity, and Liminality in Mid-Nineteenth-Century
Canada West and New York City,” Association for Canadian Studies in the United States Biennial Meeting,
Minneapolis, MN, November 19-23, 1997.
“The White-Collar Worlds of Andrew McIlwraith: Work,
Masculinity, and Liminality in Mid-19th-century Canada West and New York City,”
New England Historical Association Conference, Northeastern University, Boston,
MA, April 26, 1997.
“The
‘Battle of the Doctors,’ Galt, Canada West, 1861: An Episode in the History of Medicine,
Markets and Morality,” Regular History Colloquium, Department of History and Phi Alpha Theta, Bridgewater
State College, October, 1996.
“Work,
Authority, Independence, and Honour: The
Meaning of Self-Employment among Medical Professionals in Ontario and Virginia,
1840-1890,” Social Science
History Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, October, 1996.
“‘Cultivation’
and the Middle-Class Self: Masculinity and Meaning in Victorian Ontario Towns,”
Canadian Historical Association Conference, Brock University, St.
“The
‘Battle of the Doctors’, Galt, 1861: Medical Markets, Morality, and
Professional Honour in Victorian Ontario,” Canadian Society for the History of
Medicine Annual Meeting, Brock
University, St. Catharines, Ontario, June 1996.
“Health,
Honour, and Hypochondria: Lessons from Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson,” Keydet
Civil War Round Table, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia, April 24, 1996.
“Gentlemen,
Mountebanks, and Eclectics: Who Practised Medicine in Nineteenth-Century
Rockbridge County?,” Quarterly Meeting, Rockbridge Historical Society,
“Was
Stonewall Jackson a Hypochondriac?” Southern Ontario Civil War Round Table, Burlington,
Ontario,
“Medicine, Markets and
Morality in Victorian
“T.J. Jackson and 1850’s Medicine Revisited,” Fifth
Biennial Stonewall Jackson Symposium, Stonewall Jackson House and Washington
& Lee University, Lexington, Virginia.
“Is There A Crisis in Graduate Education in
History?”
“One Step Back, Two Steps Forward: Directions for the
Study of the Middle Class in Nineteenth-Century Canada,” Canadian Historical
Association Conference, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, June 1, 1992.
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Board Member:
American Review of Canadian Studies (October 2015- )
Canadian Journal of Popular Culture (June 2011- )
Journal
Article Manuscript Reader: Acadiensis
(October 2014); American Review of Canadian Studies (September 2015;
August 2012; January 2011; January 2003); Canadian Historical Review
(July 2014; March 2008; November 2007; April 2004; October 2003; November
2000); Histoire sociale/Social History (September 2011); The
Historian (August 2011); International Journal of Canadian Studies
(July 2015; September 2010); Journal of Canadian Studies (March 2015;
February 2013; July 2005); Journal of Sport History (December 2013); Ontario
History (January 2010); Past Imperfect (March 2006); Scientia Canadensis (December
2007); Sociology of Sport Journal (July 2008); Southern Journal of
Canadian Studies (December 2015); Sport History Review (January
2016).
Book
Manuscript Reader: Broadview Press (2005); Houghton Mifflin (April 2001); McGill-Queen’s University Press
(December 2009; November 2005; June 2005); McGraw-Hill
(September 2002; April 2000; December 1998; August 1998); University of Missouri Press (March 2002); University of Toronto Press (2015; 2012; 2009).
Book Prospectus
Evaluator: McGraw-Hill
(April 2002); Pearson Education (June 2004); University
of Toronto Press (January 2016; August 2014).
Conference Session
Chair & Commentator Association for
Canadian Studies in the U.S. (Las Vegas, NV); Canadian Historical Association
(St. Catharines, ON, May 2014); Association for Canadian Studies in the U.S.
(Tampa, FL, November 2013); “Two Days of Canada” Annual Canadian Studies
Conference, Brock University (St. Catharines, ON, November 2013); Association
for Canadian Studies in the U.S. (Ottawa, November 2011); Association for
Canadian Studies in the U.S. (San Diego, November 2009); New England Political
Science Association (Portland, ME, May 2009); Association for Canadian Studies
in the U.S. (Toronto, November 2007); New England Historical Association
(Manchester, NH, May 2007); American Council for Quebec Studies (Cambridge, MA, October
2006); New England Historical
Association (Brookline, MA, April 2004); Association for Canadian Studies in
the U.S. (Portland, OR, November 2003); American Conference for Irish Studies –
New England Regional Meeting (Bridgewater, MA, October 2003); Middle Atlantic & New
England Council for Canadian Studies (Burlington, VT, October 1998).
External
Examiner for Tenure and Promotion Candidates
Brock
University (Faculty of Applied Health Sciences) Fall 2013; Mount Royal
University (Faculty of Arts) Spring 2013; Bowling Green State University
(College of Arts and Sciences) Fall 2011.
Grant
Evaluator
Fulbright National Screening Committee (Canada), 2015-16
U.S. Student Applications, November 2014; 2014-15 U.S. Graduate Student
Applications, December 2013.
Insight Grants Program, Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) – (February 2014).
Standard Research Grants Program, Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) – (January 2010; December 2006).
Faculty Enrichment Grants, Canadian Studies Program,
Academic Relations Office, Canadian Embassy, Washington, DC (October-November
2006; January 2002).
Graduate Student Fellowships, Canadian Studies Program,
Academic Relations Office, Canadian Embassy, Washington, DC (January 2002).
Miscellaneous
Senior
Scholar-Commentator, “Issues in Canadian Studies: Views from America”
CONNECT/Fulbright Canadian Studies Junior Scholar Symposium, University of
California, Berkeley, CA, May 9, 2013.
Guest
Co-editor (with Julie Stevens) “Rinkside: New Scholarly Studies on Ice Hockey
and Society.” Special Edition of Sport in Society 16, 3 (April 2013).
Judge, Clio Prize – Ontario (award for meritorious
publication or exceptional contribution to regional history), Canadian
Historical Association, 2011, 2012, 2013 (Committee Chair).
Associate Editor, Bridgewater Review, 2006-2011.
Guest Editor, “Canada’s
Game.” Special Edition of Sport
Member, Jeanne Kissner Award Committee (adjudicates best
essay on Canada by a U.S. undergraduate student), Association for Canadian
Studies in the U.S. (2004).
Conference and Symposium Organization
Section Chair (History Panels), Association for Canadian Studies in the U.S., 23rd Biennial Conference, Las Vegas, NV, October 2015.
Moderator, “Women’s Hockey Today,” Roundtable Session at The Face of the Game: Women’s Hockey in North America (scholarly symposium coinciding with the IIHF Women’s World Ice Hockey Championship), University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 12 April 2012.
Symposium Organizer and Moderator, “Pucks across the Border: Canadian-American Hockey Relations” panel discussion sponsored by the Canadian Consulate and hosted by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, December 11, 2010.
Conference Co-chair (with Julie Stevens, Brock University), “Hockey on the Border-An International Scholarly Conference,” Buffalo, NY, June 3-5, 2010.
Conference Co-chair (with Richard Parker, High Point
University), MANECCS/SACS Joint Canadian Studies Conference, Washington DC, October
2008.
Conference Co-chair (with Anthony Cicerone), Canada’s
Game? Critical Perspectives on Ice Hockey and Identity, Plymouth, MA, April
14-16, 2005.
Department
of History Commitments (Bridgewater State
University)
Curriculum
Committee (2007-12); Graduate Committee (1996-2007; 2013- ); Houghton Mifflin History
Essay Prize Founder (1999) and Adjudication Committee Member (1999-2006;
2011-13); History Colloquium Founder
(1996-97) and Coordinator (2000-03).
Non-Department
Campus Commitments
Coordinator, Center for the Advancement of Research and Teaching (CART), 2003-06; Advisory Board Member, 2000-03.
Writing Committee Chair, New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) Re-accreditation Self-Study Committee, 2001-02.
Member, Graduate Education Council, 1998-99; 2000-01.
Member, A-PLUS (Assessing the Performance and Learning
of Undergraduate Students) Task Force, 1998-99.
College Representative, SACHEM (5-College International
Studies Consortium) Steering Committee, 1998-2003.
Member,
Graduate Faculty, 1997-present.
Member,
Canadian Studies Council, 1996-present.
Head
Coach, Bridgewater State University Bears Men’s Ice Hockey Club, 1998-2011.
Officer
Treasurer, Association for Canadian Studies in the U.S.
(2014- ).
Member, Board of Directors, Gorsebrook Research
Institute, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia (2008- ).
Member
Middle
Atlantic and New England Council for Canadian Studies.
Also Past President (2011-12); President (2009-11);
Executive Vice-President (2006-08); Councilor-at-Large (2004-06).
Association
for Canadian Studies in the United States
Association
international des études québécoises
Canadian
Historical Association
New
England-Canada Business Council
American
Council for Quebec Studies
North
American Society for Sport History
Last updated:
February 2016