Curriculum Vitae
ANDREW CARL HOLMAN
Professor of History
236 Tillinghast Hall
Bridgewater, Massachusetts 02325
(508) 531-2688
email: a2holman@bridgew.edu
Areas
of Specialization: Canadian
History, United States History, Sport History, Borderlands Studies
1995 Ph.D. in History,
Dissertation: “Middle-Class Formation in Victorian Ontario Towns: Galt and Goderich, 1850-1890”
1989 M.A. in History,
Thesis: “Corktown, 1832-1847: The Founding of Hamilton’s Pre-Famine Catholic Irish Settlement”
1986 B.A.
(Honours) in History and Political Science,
Canada’s
Game: Hockey and Identity (edited collection of scholarly essays) (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009).
A Sense of Their Duty:
Middle-Class Formation in Victorian Ontario Towns
(McGill- Queen’s University Press, 2000).
“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
“‘Cultivation’
and the Middle-Class Self: Manners and Morals in Victorian
Confederation: A Reader
(
“‘Different Feelings’: Corktown
and the Catholic Irish in Early
“‘Cultivation’ and the
Middle-Class Self in Nineteenth Century
“Thomas J. Jackson and the
Idea of Health: A New Approach to the Social
“Cities and Immigrants: A
Canadian Perspective” Review Essay. Journal of Urban
“Nación en el hielo: Hockey, History and the
Troubled Construction of Identity in Canada, 1875-2010.” Article invited for a
special edition of ISTOR (Mexican journal of international history).
"Where Have you Gone Jack Lorimer? New England's Moment in Juvenile Sporting Fiction" Bridgewater Review 30, I (June 2011).
“Teaching Note. Then and
Now: Canadian and American Students Discover Each Other” Bridgewater Review
29, II (December 2010) 24-27.
“A Not-too-distant Mirror: The Talcott Commission (1840-43) and the Meaning of the Border”
Bridgewater Review 29, I (June 2010) 19-21.
“Crisis? What Crisis?
Global Recession and Learning at
“Our Wings: Aviation Science and College
Learning,”
“One Game, Two Countries,”
commentary, ACSUS e-dition newsletter, 6 May 2009,
(Association for Canadian Studies in the U.S).
“‘Absolutely
part of what we should be doing’: Kevin Curry, Water Filters and the
International Mission of the
“Climate
Change and Culture: Some Thoughts on the Precarious Idea of North”
“Who
We Are: Some Thoughts about Making and Remaking History at
“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
“Teaching and
Learning in Cold Places: Ice Hockey at
“Something Old, Something New:
“Gentlemen,
Irregulars, and Eclectics: Who Practised Medicine in
Nineteenth-
Historical Society (
“Examining Assumptions,” MANECCS News & Views. Newsletter of the Middle Atlantic and
1999) 5-6.
“The Quebec/Canada Relationship: 1867-1997,” in Richard
Beach, ed.
(Plattsburgh, NY: Center for the Study
of Canada, SUNY Plattsburgh, 1999) 37-41.
“Happy Birthday
“Happy Birthday
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.
“Happy Birthday
“‘I
Don’t Feel So Well To-Day as Usual’: Was Stonewall a
Hypochondriac?” Civil War 56
(April, 1996) 42-49.
Geoffrey Hayes,
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
(January, 1994) 118-21.
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)
“Northern Borderlands: A New Approach to
Canadian-American Relations” (Senior 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”
“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
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.
July 2011 Summer Research Grant, Center for the Advancement of Research and Teaching, Bridgewater State University (US$3,100 in support of the research and writing of an invited essay: “Nación en el hielo: Hockey, History and the Troubled Construction of Identity in Canada, 1875-2010.” Special edition of ISTOR (Mexican journal of international history).
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,
November
1997 Canadian Studies Research
Grant, Canadian Embassy,
July 1997 Andrew
W. Mellon Research Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society,
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,
1995-96 Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of
Post Doctoral Fellowship,
1993-94 Queen
Elizabeth II Ontario Scholarship.
1992-93 Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of
1991-92
Summer 1990 Stonewall
Jackson House Research Fellowship. The
1987-88 H.G.
Hilton Scholarship,
“Reading
the Canadian-American Borderlands in American Juvenile Fiction, 1890-1940”
Canadian Historical Association Conference, Fredericton, NB, May 31, 2011.
"Interrogating 'Other': The Past and Present of Canadian-American Student Colloquy," MANECCS Biennial Conference, Providence RI, October 2, 2010.
“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
“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
“‘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
“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
“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
Association of American Studies
Joint Annual Meeting,
“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,
“‘In
Tollerbel Helth’; or, How
Ordinary People Viewed Sickness and Wellness in Nineteenth-Century
for the Advancement
of Research and Teaching,
“The
White-Collar Worlds of Andrew McIlwraith: Work, Masculinity, and Liminality in Mid-Nineteenth-Century
Association for Canadian Studies in the
“The
White-Collar Worlds of Andrew McIlwraith: Work, Masculinity, and Liminality in Mid-Nineteenth-Century
New England Historical Association Conference, Northeastern
University,
“The
‘
Department of
History and Phi Alpha Theta,
“Work,
Authority,
1890,” Social Science
History Association Conference,
“‘Cultivation’
and the Middle-Class Self: Masculinity and Meaning in Victorian
“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’
“Gentlemen,
Mountebanks, and Eclectics: Who Practised Medicine in
Nineteenth-
Historical Society,
“Was
Stonewall Jackson a Hypochondriac?” Southern Ontario Civil War Round Table,
“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
Journal
Article Manuscript Reader: American
Review of Canadian Studies (January 2011; January 2003); Canadian
Historical Review (March 2008; November 2007; April 2004; October 2003;
November 2000); The Historian (August 2011); International Journal of
Canadian Studies (September 2010); Journal of Canadian Studies (July
2005); Ontario History (January 2010); Past Imperfect (March
2006); Scientia Canadensis (December 2007); Sociology
of Sport Journal (July 2008).
Book
Manuscript Reader: Broadview Press (2005); Houghton Mifflin (April 2001); McGill-Queen’s University Press
(December 2009; November 2005; June 2005); McGraw-Hill
(September 200; April 2000; December 1998; August 1998); University of Missouri Press (March 2002); University of Toronto Press (2009).
Book Prospectus Evaluator:
McGraw-Hill (April 2002); Pearson Education (June 2004).
Conference Session
Chair & Commentator: 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).
Grant
Evaluator
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
Judge, Clio Prize –
Ontario (award for meritorious publication or exceptional contribution to
regional history), Canadian Historical Association, 2010-11.
Associate Editor, Bridgewater Review,
2006-11.
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 Organizer
Symposium Organizer and Moderator, “Pucks across the Border: Canadian-American Hockey Relations” 5-member 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 (will
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, Mass., April
14-16, 2005.
Department
of History Commitments (Bridgewater State
University)
Curriculum
Committee (2007- );
Graduate Committee (1996-2007); Houghton Mifflin
Non-Department
Campus Commitments
Associate
Editor,
Coordinator, Center for the Advancement of Research and Teaching (CART), 2003-06.
Writing Committee Chair,
Advisory Board Member, Center for the Advancement of Research and Teaching (CART), September 2000-May 2003.
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, SACHEM International Studies Committee Task Force,
1997-98.
Member, Graduate Faculty, 1997-present.
Member, Canadian Studies Council, 1996-present.
Head Coach, Bridgewater State College Men’s Ice Hockey
Club, 1998-2011.
Coach and Advisor, Bridgewater State College Women’s Ice
Hockey Club, 2000-01.
Member, Board of
Directors, Gorsebrook Research Institute, Saint
Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia (2008-present).
President, Middle
Member,
Association for Canadian Studies in the
Member,
British Association for Canadian Studies
Member,
Canadian Historical Association
Member,
Member,
New England-Canada Business Council
Member,
American Council for
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