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Graduate Program in History

Colin Coates

Degrees:  Ph.D. York University
M.A. University of British Columbia
B.A. University of Ottawa
 
Current Position:  Associate Professor
(Glendon College)
 
Recent Publications: Les Transformations du paysage et de la société au Québec sous le régime seigneurial, trans. by Jude Des Chênes(Sillery: Septentrion, 2003)

Heroines and History: Representations of Madeleine de Verchères and Laura Secord, co-authored with Cecilia Morgan (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002)
(Honourable Mention for the Sir John A Macdonald Prize of the Canadian Historical Association, 2003)

The Metamorphoses of Landscape and Community in Early Quebec (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001)

"The Rebellions of 1837, and other Bourgeois Revolutions in Quebec Historiography" International Journal of Canadian Studies 20 (Fall 1999): 19-34
 
Courses taught recently: Introduction to Canadian Studies (the University of Edinburgh)

Contact and Conflict: Canadian Social History to 1870 (the University of Edinburgh)

Comparative North American History, 1754-1877 (with Dr Frank Cogliano); Canadian Nationalism (at MSc level)(the University of Edinburgh)

Introduction to Canadian Studies (the University of Edinburgh)
 
Research Interests: early French Canada, nationalism, popular culture, environmental history
 
Awards/Grants:  2003: Tier II Canada Research Chair in Canadian Cultural Landscapes

2001: Prix du Québec, Délégation générale du Québec in London