Tom Peace

Degrees:	MA – Saint Mary’s University (History) Thesis: Adventurers and Authors: Changing Impressions of the Native Peoples in the Writings of Samuel de Champlain and Capt. John Smith BA(hon) – Acadia University (History) Thesis: The Lost Marriage of Hiawatha and Evangeline Acadian-Mi’kmaq Relations in the Eighteenth Century
Current Position:	PhD Candidate (ABD) – begun Sept 2005 Graduate Programe in History, York University
Thesis in progress:	Communities and Conquest: A comparative study of Mi’kmaq and Huron-Wendat responses to the fall of New France.
Fields:	Canadian History Western Social History Aboriginal History
Papers and Publications:	Editor for ActiveHistory.ca “Journeying by Canoe: Reflections on the Canoe and Spirituality,” Leisure/Loisir,  Vol. 33, no. 1 (2009), 217-240. “Deconstructing the Sauvage/Savage in the Writing of Samuel de Champlain and Captain John Smith,” French Colonial History, vol. 7, (2006), 1-20. « Saint-Castin et le rôle Mi’kmaq et Abenaki dans les sièges de Port-Royal, 1707 and 1710, »  Actes du 8e colloque étudiant du département d’histoire de l’Université Laval, (Québec: Artefact: Association étudiante de 2e et 3e cycles, 2009), 133-144. “Review of John G. Reid, Essays on Northeastern North America: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,” Canadian Historical Review, Vol. 90, no. 4 (Dec 2009), 755-757. "Review of John Mack Faragher, A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland," H-Canada, H-Net Reviews, August, 2007, URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=205341191173128. Conference Presentations: 1759 Revisited (Sept 2009); Canadian Historical Association (May 2009); Ethnohistory (Nov 2008); Artefact (Feb 2008); French Colonial Historical Association (June 2005)
Courses taught recently:	HIST 3850: Murder and other crimes in 19th and 20th century North America (Department of History, York University) CDNS 1920: Introduction to Canadian Studies (Department of Canadian Studies, Glendon College, York University) HIS 327.2: France and New France (Department of History, Saint Mary’s University)
Research Interests:	Aboriginal – European relations, Ethnohistory, travel narratives, the history of northeastern North America before the nineteenth century, Public history and the uses of the past, the social and cultural dynamics of communities, and connections between geography, environment and community.
Awards/Prizes:	Phillips Fund Grant for Native American Research (American Philosophical Society, 2007) Ramsey Cook Fellowship for Canadian History (York University, 2007, 2009) Distinction on comprehensive examinations (York University, November, 2006). Honourable Mention: Eccles Prize (French Colonial Historical Society, 2006): “Deconstructing the Sauvage/Savage in the Writing of Samuel de Champlain and Captain John Smith” Co-winner of Mary Jackson-Hinch and Joseph Hinch Research Award (Saint Mary’s University, 2004)