Marcel Martel
| Degrees: | MA and Ph D, York University
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| Current Position: | Associate Professor, History (Faculty of Arts) and Holder of the Avie Bennett Historica Chair in Canadian History
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| Recent Publications: | “They smell bad, have diseases and are lazy”: RCMP Officers Reporting on Hippies in the Late Sixties’, The Canadian Historical Review, vol. 90. no 2 (June 2009), p. 215-245. Marcel Martel et Martin Pâquet, Légiférer en matière linguistique, Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval et CEFAN, 2008, 449 p.
‘The Age of Aquarius’: Medical Expertise and the Prevention and Control of Drug Use Undertaken by the Quebec and Ontario Governments’, in Dimitry Anastakis (ed.), The Sixties. Passion, Politics, and Style, Montreal & Kingston, McGill-Queen’s, 2008, p. 99-115.
‘Law versus Medicine: the Debate over Drug Use in the 1960s’, in Magda Fahrni and Robert Rutherdale editors, Creating Postwar Canada, 1945-75, Vancouver, UBC Press, 2008, p. 315-333.
Not This Time: Canadians, Public Policy and the Marijuana Question, 1961-1975, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2006, 277 p. Yves Frenette, Marcel Martel and John Willis, Envoyer et recevoir. Lettres et correspondances dans les diasporas francophones, Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval et CEFAN, 2006, 298 p.
Que faire? Le gouvernement ontarien et la consommation des drogues à des fins récréatives, 1966-1972', Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Bulletin canadien d'histoire médicale, volume 20, no 1 (2003), p. 103-20.
French Canada: A Debate on its Existence and Disappearance' and published in the Journal of Indo-Canadian Studies. A Special Issue on Quebec and French Canada, vol. 2, no 2 (July 2002), p. 55-69. Michael D. Behiels and Marcel Martel, Nation, Ideas, Identities. Essays in Honour of Ramsay Cook, Don Mills, Ontario, Oxford University Press, 2000, 242 p. Marcel Martel, avec la collaboration de Robert Choquette, L'Université et la francophonie. Actes du colloque tenu à l'Université d'Ottawa, Novembre 1998, Ottawa, Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française, 1999. French Canada: An Account of its Creation and Break up, 1850-1967. Ottawa, The Canadian Historical Association, 1998 (Canada's Ethnic Group Series, Booklet No. 24). 32 p. |
| Papers / Lectures: |
«Connaissance de la loi sur les langues officielles : quelques constats », 1969-2009, l’acte de langues officielles au Canada : 40 ans de rétrospective, Association of Canadian Studies/Association d’études canadiennes, Canadian Museum of Civilizations, Gatineau, Quebec, 12 and 13 March 2009.
“Riots’ at Sir George Williams: Construction of a Social Conflict in the Sixties”, Debating Dissent: Canada and the Sixties, Workshop held at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, August 2008 Les émeutes à Sir Georges Williams: Activisme, identité et influence externe, Le Québec et les années 1960 : Influences et héritage, GIHRIC-Université de Montréal, May 2005. The Medical Profession and the Marijuana Issue in the Sixties: A Divisive Debate, International Conference on Drugs and Alcohol in History (ICDAH), Huron University College, London, Ontario, May 2004. Discussions autour de la marijuana dans les années 1960: une comparaison entre le Québec et l’Ontario, Colloque sur les années 1960: substance et apparence, McCord Museum, November 2003 Conflicting ‘Projet de Sociétés’: The Case of Francophone communities in the Prairies (1860-1920), British World II Conference, University of Calgary, July 2003
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| Courses taught recently: | AS/HIST 2500 Canadian
History AS/HIST 3580 Twentieth Century Canada AS/HIST 4050i From Memory to History: Cultural Revolution in the 1960s in Canada AS/HIST 4570 Canada in War & Peace, 1911-51 |
| Research Interests: | 20th
Century Canada, State formation and development, Political History |
| Awards/Grants: | SSHRC Research Grant (2005-07) Language Policy and Minority Rights (with Dr Martin Pâquet, History Department, Université Laval 2000 Access Awareness Award, York University Access Awareness Event Organizing Committee 1997 Michel-Brunet Award (best
book published by a young historian in 1997), Institut d'histoire
de l'Amérique française |
