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Graduate Program in History

Michiel Horn

Degrees:  University of British Columbia
M.A., Ph.D. University of Toronto
 
Current Position:  Professor
(History, Glendon College of York University)
 
Recent Publications: Academic Freedom in Canada: A History (Completed, tbp by University of Toronto Press, March 1999)

Becoming Canadian: Memoirs of an Invisible Immigrant (University of Toronto Press, 1997)

"Canada and Free Trade Agreements: A Brief Historical Overview." Zeitschrift fuer Kanada-Studien vol. 17, no. 2 (1997): 36-44

"The Canadian Army in the Netherlands." Militaire Spectator vol. 164, no. 5 (May 1995): 227-235

"Unionization and the Canadian University." Interchange vol. 25, no. 1 (1994): 39-48

"The Mildew of Discretion: Academic Freedom and Self-Censorship." Dalhousie Review vol. 72, no. 4 (Winter 1992-93): 439-66

"Frank Scott, the League for Social Reconstruction, and the Canadian Constitution." Canadian Constitutionalism 1791-1991 Janet Aizenstat, ed. (Ottawa, Canadian Study of Parliament Group, 1992): 213-23
 
Courses taught recently: History 5165.06: Canada in Depression and War, 1929-1945
 
Research Interests: Canada, Academic Freedom; Canadian higher education; history of taxation in Canada; the Great Depression of the 1930s
 
Awards/Grants: 

2003: elected president of the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Netherlandic Studies

2002: elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

 

2002: received the Milner Memorial Award from the Canadian Association of University Teachers for services to the cause of academic freedom

1999: Principal's Award for Teaching Excellence
Glendon College

1998: grant in aid of publication
Social Science and Humanities Federation of Canada

1997: York University conference travel grant

1995-1996: York University Sabbatical Leave Fellowship

1993: Glendon College Research Leave Fellowship

1990-1991: SSHRCC research grant

1989-1990: York University Sabbatical Leave Fellowship

1988: Thomas Glendenning Hamilton Research Grant
University of Manitoba

1986-1989: three-year SSHRCC research grant

1986: SSHRCC award in support of Harry Crowe Memorial Lectures
(Academic Freedom Conference), Toronto

1985: grants in aid of publication
Boag Foundation, Vancouver

1985: Douglas-Coldwell Foundation
Ottawa

1981-1982: Glendon College Sabbatical Research Grant

1980: grant in aid of publication
Social Science Federation of Canada

1976-1977: SSHRCC small research grants

1974-1975: Canada Council Leave Fellowship

1970-1994: eighteen Glendon College research grants