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Graduate Program in History

Reaume, Geoffrey

 
Degrees: 

Degrees: 

PhD (Toronto, 1997)

MA (Toronto, 1990)

BA (Windsor, 1988)

 
Current Position:  Associate Professor, Critical Disability Studies, York University
 
Recent Publications:

Remembrance of Patients Past: Patient Life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, 1870-1940.     Toronto: Oxford University Press Canada, 2000. Re-published, unrevised, University of Toronto Press, 2009.

Lyndhurst: Canada's

First Rehabilitation Centre for People with Spinal Cord Injuries,       1945-1998. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007.

 

“Psychiatric Patient Built Wall Tours at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, 2000 – 2010”, Left History (forthcoming - refereed).

 

“Elizabeth Packard”. Encyclopedia of American Disability History, Volume II. Ed., Susan Burch. New York: Facts on File, 2009: 692-693.

“Madness and Mad People”. Encyclopedia of American Disability History, Volume II. Ed., Susan Burch. New York: Facts on File, 2009: 584-585.

 

“Alice G.” [1854-1938 – Toronto Asylum Inmate Labourer] Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume XVI (1931-40). Toronto: University of Toronto Press (forthcoming).

 

“A History of Lobotomy in Ontario”. In: Essays in Honour of Michael Bliss: Figuring the Social . Eds. Elsbeth Heaman, Alison Li, Shelley McKellar. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008: 378-399 (refereed).   

“Patients at Work: Insane Asylum Inmate Labour in Ontario, 1841-1900.” In James Moran and David Wright, eds., Mental Health and Canadian Society: Historical Perspectives. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006: 69-96  (refereed). Republished in Tanya Titchkosky and Rod Michalko, eds., Rethinking Normalcy: A Disability Studies Reader. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2009: 158-180

 


Courses taught recently:

Mad People’s History, Critical Disability Studies, York University,

2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009.                            History of Health Care Ethics from Ancient Times to the Present, Critical Disability Studies, School of Health Policy and Management, York University, 2007, 2010.  Critical Interpretations of Disability History, Critical Disability Studies, York University, 2009. Doctoral Seminar in Critical Disability Theory and Research, Critical Disability Studies, York University, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10.

 



 
Research Interests:

Mad people's history; history of people with disabilities; medical history; psychiatric patients' labour history; archiving psychiatric survivor and disability histories; connecting the past with contemporary social justice struggles.

 


 
Awards/Grants: 

Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Award, York University, 2009                    (awarded May, 2010).

SSHRC Research Development Initiative, February 2005 – April 2008: “Canadian                       Disability History Archives Study Project” - $34,850.