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Graduate Program in History

Carolyn Podruchny

Web Site:

http://www.carolynpodruchny.ca/

 
Degrees: 

MA and PhD, University of Toronto
BA, McGill University
Current Position: 

Assistant Professor, History Department, York University
Recent Publications:

"Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North
American Fur Trade/ (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press and Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 2006).

“Werewolves and Windigos: Narratives of Cannibal Monsters in French-Canadian Voyageur Oral Tradition,” Ethnohistory 51: 4 (fall 2004), 677-700.

Germaine Warkentin and Carolyn Podruchny, eds. Decentring the Renaissance: Canada and Europe in Multidisciplinary Perspective, 1500-1700. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001.

"Un homme-libre se construit une identité: Voyage de Joseph Constant au
Pas, de 1773 à 1853.” Cahiers franco-canadiennes de l’Ouest, Numéro spécial sur La question métissage : entre la ployvalence et l’ambivalence identitaires 14 :1 et 2 (2002), 33-59.

“Baptizing Novices: Ritual Moments Among French Canadian Voyageurs in
the Montreal Fur Trade, 1780-1821." Canadian Historical Review 83:2 (June 2002), 165-95
Papers / Presentations:

(Recent)

“Colliding Spirit Worlds? Belcourt's French-Anishinaabe
Dictionary.” 9th North American Fur Trade Conference and 12th Rupert's
Land Colloquium, St. Louis, May 2006.

“The Long Journey of the Turtle Who Wanted to Fly: Oral Motifs and
Cultural Exchange in the Fur Trade.” French Colonial Historical Society,
32nd Congress, Dakar, Senegal, May 2006.

Presented jointly with Roger Roulette, “Bear Tales: Exploring
Ojibwe and French-Canadian
Oral Communication in the Fur Trade.”37th Algonquian Conference, Ottawa,
October 2005

“Regulating Resistance: A Roman Catholic Priest Incites the Métis and Acadians, 1840s-1860s.” /French Colonial Historical Society, 31st Congress/, Wolfville, NS, June 2005.

Commentator for Panel “Collaborative Research in Aboriginal History on the Pacific Coast.” /Canadian History Association 2005 Annual Meeting/, London, ON, May 2005.

"Fuites miraculeuses dans la tradition orale canadienne-française des voyageurs : la chanson, l'histoire et la complainte gravée dans le bois de Jean Cadieux." /57e Congrés annuel, Institut d'histoire de l'Amérique français/, Chicoutimi, octobre 2004.

“Voyageurs too enjoy their carnival: French Canadian Servants, Dirty Tricks, and Bodily Pleasures.” /Canadian Historical Association 2004 Annual Conference/, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, spring 2004.

 

Courses taught recently:

 

HIST 1035 The Impact of Europeans on the North American Environment
HIST 3550 Canada Before 1900: Cultural History
HIST 4508 Cultures and Colonialism: Canada 1600-1900

 
Research Interests:

Early Canadian History, Aboriginal and French encounters, fur trade, oral history, history of the book

 
Awards/Grants:  

2005, York University Faculty of Arts Dean's Award for Outstanding Research

2004, Canadian Embassy in the United States, Canadian Studies Faculty Research Grant

2003-06, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant, University of Winnipeg

2003, /Canadian Historical Review/ Award for best article in the journal for 2002.

2002, American Philosophical Society Residential Fellowship, Philadelphia