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Graduate Program in History

Ian Gentles

Degrees:  Ph.D. London,
F.R.H.S.
 
Current Position:  Professor
(Glendon College)
 
Recent Publications:

Air France and Toronto: A Blossoming Relationship, 1976-2001 (Toronto: Air France, 2001), 27pp.

 

Canada's Founding Debates, co-edited with Janet Ajzenstat, Paul Romney and William D. Gairdner (Toronto: Stoddart, 1999), 502 pp.

Soldiers, Writers and Statesmen of the English Revolution, coedited with John Morrill and Blair Worden (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998)

The New Model Army in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1645-1653 (Blackwell, Oxford and Cambridge, Mass., 1992), 584 pp. (expanded paperback edn., 1994)
 

Courses taught recently: Undergraduate Courses:

Humanities (Western Civilization from 1500 to the present)

Canadian History from 1867 (seminar leader; bilingual seminar in 1969-70)

Topics in Urban History/Questions choisies en histoire urbaine

England in the 17th Century

Introductory British History, 1066-1990

Topics in the History of Population and the Family, 1500-present

England from the Reformation to the Industrial Revolution, 1500-1815

Armies and Revolutions, 1600-1918

Early Modern England, 1500-1720 (1998)

The World of the Early Christians (2001)

Ancient History (2002)

 

Graduate Course

Early Modern England, 1500-1720 (1993)

Research Interests: Early modern British; historical demography
 
Awards/Grants: 

2004 : Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge (January – March)

2002 : Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge (January - June)

2001 : Principal's Teaching Excellence Award, Glendon College

Associate editor
seventeenth century, New Dictionary of National Biography

1997: Frederick A. & Marion S. Pottle Fellow
Beinecke Library, Yale University (April)

1997: Mayers Fellow
Huntington Library, San Marino, California (Jan.-March)

1996: Philip A. Knachel Fellow
Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. (November)

1993: Visiting Fellow
Clare Hall, Cambridge (January-July)

1992-93: Glendon College Research Fellowship

1988: Visiting fellow
Huntington Library, California (January-March)

1986: Elected to the Council for Anglo-American Historical Conference (1987-9)

1985: Glendon College Research Fellowship

1982-83: Visiting Scholar
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

1982-83: Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada Leave Fellowship

1978: Elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

1975-76: Canada Council Leave Fellowship
(awarded Jan. 1974)

1966-68: Canada Council Fellowship

1964-65: Province of Ontario Graduate Fellowship

1961: Arthur Cohen Prize in English Literature
University College, Toronto

1961: Reuben Wells Leonard entrance scholarship
University College, Toronto